Mr. President, and Members of Congress Assembled,
We, the People, by your own deplorable Acts, now find ourselves in the dire position of contemplating the choice between unconditional submission to the tyranny of unbounded Federal Government, or resistance by force. — Know that, should your present malfeasance not abate, should you actualise that which you have, heretofore, merely debated, the latter shall be our choice. — We have, against the prospect of such a time as this, counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery. — Honour, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them, if we basely entail hereditary bondage upon them.
Our cause is just. Our union is perfect. Our internal resources are great, our national military, and local police, being comprised of like-minded volunteers, shall doubtless stand with us, and, if necessary, foreign assistance is undoubtedly attainable. — We gratefully acknowledge, as signal instances of the Divine favour towards us, that his Providence would not permit us to be called into this severe controversy, until we were grown up to our present strength, had been previously exercised in warlike operation, and had not yet been stripped of the means of defending ourselves. With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare, that, exerting the utmost energy of those powers, which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we are being compelled by our enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverence, employ for the preservation of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live slaves.
In our own native land, in defence of the freedom that is our birthright, and which we ever enjoyed till these impending violations of it — for the protection of our property, acquired solely by the honest industry of our fore-fathers and ourselves, at the point of violence actually offered against liberty, we shall take up arms. We shall lay them down when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, and all danger of their being renewed shall be removed, and not before.
With an humble confidence in the mercies of the supreme and impartial Judge and Ruler of the Universe, we most devoutly implore his divine goodness to restore sanity to the minds of our President, and our Legislators, or, failing that, to protect us happily through the ensuing conflict, to dispose our adversaries to reconciliation on reasonable terms amenable to free men disposed to liberty, and thereby to relieve the Republic from the dire calamities of civil war.
Signed:
HKMk23, one man, Free or Dead
Don’t miss the, “Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress,” that’s linked from the text.
THAT, was a GREAT post, HKMk23.
Thanks for the ping.
Ping.
Excellent.
And, seconded.
“A people unwilling to use extreme violent force to secure or obtain their liberty deserves the tyrants that rule them.”
Be still, my heart!
Beautifully written!
I am with you. There can be no other manner in which to approach this contest in defeat of tyranny.
Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!
No one will take it away without stirring the hearts , minds, bodies and weaponry of patriots.
Thank you for that writing.Let our adversaries tremble in their materialist weakness.
Seconded...
"In our own native land, in defence of the freedom that is our birthright, and which we ever enjoyed till these impending violations of it — for the protection of our property, acquired solely by the honest industry of our fore-fathers and ourselves, at the point of violence actually offered against liberty, we shall take up arms. We shall lay them down when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, and all danger of their being renewed shall be removed, and not before."
I concur.
Well put.
God be with you.
God be with all honorable FREEPERS.
Aye!!!
That was written as if it could have come from our Founding Fathers 230 years ago. Most excellent piece
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I shan't presume that I speak for anyone, but submit to you that THIS is approaches that absolute limit; that, if Congress and this Administration now fail to "hear" the People, and do continue such abuse of Federal power as herein described, we must consider that they have chosen the next -- but not final -- escalation toward armed conflict.
We, the People, MUST assert our power over government in such a way that neither Congress nor the Administration can turn a deaf ear, or a blind eye, and we MUST figure out how to do it without firing a shot; we must overwhelmingly assert our Constitutional Mastery over the Federal powers.
No, the time to take up arms is NOT at hand, yet, but I would not put it beyond this reprehensible Administration to eventually force the issue. We must BY ALL PEACEABLE MEANS, push them to the utmost limit; they will either concede or turn violent, and We, the People, in order to remain in the right, must force them to be first to transgress that moral barrier. Only in this way may we be assured that every non-violent option save abject servility had been thoroughly exhausted.
Stand fast, Patriots.
Beautiful!!