Posted on 12/05/2009 8:51:04 AM PST by Loud Mime
And our group is getting larger.
A man’s house is his castle; and whilst he is quiet, he is as well guarded as a prince in his castle. This writ, if it should be declared legal, would totally annihilate this privilege. Custom-house officers may enter our houses when they please; we are commanded to permit their entry. Their menial servants may enter, may break locks, bars, and everything in their way; and whether they break through malice or revenge, no man, no court may inquire.
Truly the words of a patriot!
IIRC, real historians give Mason more credit than is acknowledged in general, public education. IIRC, he was the first non-president to get his own memorial on the grounds of the National Mall (dedicated in 2000 or 2001).
Thanks. I’m not in the habit of pinging people out of the blue, but from our past exchanges, I suspected you’d have something interesting to add.
I am very glad that you did ping me. Thanks. I DO have an interest in Mason, Gunston Hall, and his memorial on the mall. Nothing intellectual, just kinda historical.
Too bad GM didn’t have a PR guy. It is said he was rather modest, so his having a smaller memorial that few visit or even know about would have suited him just fine. People who really care about US history know about and respect him.
Mason’s refusal to sign the Constitution cost him dearly. As I understand it, from the time of his refusal until death he and GW never spoke again. You can practically walk (or certainly horseback ride) from one’s home to the other in very short order. Given that few others lived in the area in those days, that had to be a bitter experience.
I know a little about the area, and have a couple of ancestral connections to some of the grand old places in the general vicinity myself.
One was Ravensworth, ancestors signed a three lives lease with Fitzhugh for 1,000 pounds of tobacco per annum, barelled and rolled or otherwise conveyed to a landing on the Potomac. Several sons of this family served under Bryan Fairfax in the Fairfax Milita.
The other was Corotoman Creek in Lancaster County, in my paternal grandmother’s line, many men with the given name Landon going back in time, from the Southerns to the NC Carters and all the way back to Elizabeth Landon and Robert “King” Carter.
Hard to envision it, as it once was. What’s left of Ravensworth is in the middle of Annandale now.
We used to live in Annandale, so I’m familiar with Ravensworth. Lots of history in that area turned into subdivision after subdivision, strip mall after strip mall with the opening of the Beltway in the ‘60s (not to mention the relentless growth of government.
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