Posted on 08/31/2024 12:47:28 AM PDT by thecodont
“I feel myself unequal to this business” confessed John Adams, of the “grand scene open before me—a Congress.” In the fall of 1774, Adams and 55 other delegates journeyed all manner of distances by foot, horseback and carriage to Philadelphia for the First Continental Congress. Before now, few of “the wisest men upon the continent,” as Adams described the delegates in his diary, had ever left their colonies or collaborated with one another, but there was power in numbers—or, at least, they had seen there was weakness without them.
In March 1774, British Parliament punished the Massachusetts colony for the Boston Tea Party with the Coercive Acts, which closed the Port of Boston, reduced Massachusetts’ powers of self-government, provided for quartering troops in the Colonies and permitted royal officers accused of crimes to be tried in England. In so doing, these measures stirred sympathy for Massachusetts, and the other colonies sent aid, including desperately needed food, and planned, for the first time, to consider a coordinated response, at great risk to all...
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The First Continental Congress is sometimes forgotten, given the enormous consequence of the Second. But this fall, its 250th anniversary offers Americans important lessons about how the U.S. took its first steps into existence—and how different those steps were from what we might imagine. A frisson of royalism has remained with us, always, from the widespread obsession with the fairytale of John F. Kennedy’s Camelot, to just about any marriage, coronation, funeral or scandal out of Buckingham Palace. In this, at least, we are the true heirs to our colonial forebears. The majority of British subjects in North America did not pine for liberty, or exhibit a general disdain for royal pomp, or loathe the monarchy, until the very last minute—if at all.
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No way. The Bicentennial celebration was just in .... oh crap.
That was before the turn of the century.
A quarter of a millennium. Hard to believe.
Even harder to believe how far we have strayed from the vision of those men.
The majority of British subjects in North America did not pine for liberty, or exhibit a general disdain for royal pomp, or loathe the monarchy, until the very last minute—if at all.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I respectfully disagree.
The Scottish Highland Clearances happened shortly after the Battle of Cullodhen in 1746. Scottish clansmen , their families and women and children were transported to the 13 colonies where they initially became indentured servants ( slaves)to the British in America. That did not last for long, many escaped their indentures and went off to homestead on their own , seizing their freedom.They remained quite consistent in their hatred of the British, although some balked, such as Flora MacDonald herself, who remained loyal to the royal fig.
Thank God we had a few who had a distinct dislike for the British , and a parallel yen for freedom. The foremost perhaps being Francis Marion ,also known as the Swamp Fox, recently popularized in the film “The Patriot “ starring Mel Gibson.
Another was Samuel Adams who in response to criticism by British Loyalists said this is a speech on August 1st, 1776 at the Philadelphia State House:
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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; secondly, to liberty; thirdly to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can.
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.”
Adams was of Scottish descent.He knew exactly what the British had done with the Clearances. He was having none of it in America.Again, thank GOd for men such as Francis Marion and Samuel Adams, and those who followed them.
Lol, that was my first thought when I first saw articles about this coming up.
In the same vein, I’m proud to say that I still basically look the same as I did in high school.
The only difference I notice is that wherever I go, there always seems to be more and more kids around.
Samuel Adams who in response to criticism by British Loyalists said this is a speech on August 1st, 1776 at the Philadelphia State House:
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; secondly, to liberty; thirdly to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can.
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.”
BTTT
I do not believe that. I've read too much about the founders to accept that is fact. There was no polling data available then, but the desire to be left alone to live their lives in peace brought masses of people to leave Europe. (And Kings and Queens and various monarchs.)
And this carried over here in Texas when we broke from dictator Santa Anna.
Nope, I believe that during the American revolution there was probably 1/3 of the population loyal to the European monarchs. There is no way to determine how many in the Colonies were indentured servants. (not both white and black)
(From Wiki) Alexis Coe is an American presidential historian, podcast host, exhibition curator and tv commenter. She is a senior fellow at New America and the author of award-winning Alice and Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis (2014) and the New York Times best-selling You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington (2020).
She is just a child, of the Left.
Coe is a senior fellow at New America, a bipartisan think tank in Washington, D.C.
New America 740 15th Street NW, Suite 900 Washington, DC 20005
Bump
The Author is a Leftie working for a Leftist think tank, but pretending they are bi partisan.
NO SALE.
It is revisionist history.
And Europe and the UN wants us back under self anointed Kings and Queens.
They can go to Hell.
A relatively small percentage came here for "freedom" - mostly religious groups - but most who came here did so because of economic opportunity. Just lots and lots of contemporaneous accounts of people describing the lack of economic future/opportunity in Europe and desire for a place where they had a chance to own land or otherwise make their fortune.
The other thing is that Englishmen were more "free" than just about anyone else in Europe, and generally took pride in that. England was really ruled by Parliament, not the King, which was different from the rest of Europe. The "rights of Englishmen" were something talked about constantly by the Founders and by other colonists. English common law gave common people rights that other Europeans simply didn't have. They were actually proud of that.
The primary complaint of the colonists was that they were being denied the rights and representation to which they were entitled as Englishmen. So in that sense, they were very patriotic because they believed in that English system. It's just that it was denied to them. Englishmen.. So in that sense, they were very pro-English. It wasn't until they concluded they would never have the same rights as other Englishmen that they finally rebelled.
We disagree.
OK.
We are Citizens not Subjects.
But I have my own understanding of what has historically transpired.
What we witness is an attempt to End Capitalism. Most citizens don’t understand what international Banking and International Corporations and International Communists/Fascists are planning to do with the world.
International Banking has never been transparent. The bank is Broke, so they want to put the world back in their place as Slaves.
My answer is NO.
Central Banks: The use of Sovergien Immunities & Secrecy to Engineer a Global Coup (Catherine Austin Fitts, Bevrijding van Bedrog, Oct 2022)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0YW81RA26I
Bank of International Settlement etc.
This all about what technology has allowed to take place.
CBDC, chains forged. Now they want to apply to the world and eliminate anyone who questions the self apporinted Kings, Queens and Lords.
Wow… that 50 years went by quick
Bfl
“…if we should suffer them [our rights] to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.”
This was my thought when the 2020 election was stolen and only a million people showed up on January 6th… it should have been a hundred million that looked like me forty years ago.
Okay,but.its National Trail mix day!
I’ve always heard as many as 1/3 of the US didn’t want to leave the crown..?
Fair enough. People are free to read our respective posts and decide for themselves which better reflects the pre-Revolutionary mindset of the colonists.
My daughter is member of DAR. There are oral traditions that still survive. Not as much for the American Revolution as the later Texas Revolution. But there were some overlaps between the two.
My ancestors were here during the Republic of Texas, my father’s grandfather was born in TX during the Republic. Those oral history events still survive, not hear say.
And today, a bold group of commiecRATS and RINOs work diligently to destroy their creation. The US is in dire straits - we either elect trump of the world plunges into 1000 years of darkness.
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