If there is a Republican win in November, Cruz's clear identification and articulation of principles underlying our Constitution, and the "spirit of 1776" which he displayed in putting them out there, will be a major cause of that victory!
Make no mistake, the droll, unimaginative, compromising spirit of the "old order" among Republicans in both the House and Senate will not convince Americans, especially young Americans, that the Republican Party will do anything different than what it has been doing.
We now need men of courage, not "politicians," but statesmen who love liberty and will speak out on its behalf, so that future generations may look back and see that in the Year 2014, someone stood up to protect the Constitution, not their own and their Party's popularity!
One signer of the Declaration of Independence spoke eloquently about his observations of his fellow signers of that remarkable document of freedom.
| Ellery joined the Whig party, and became active in politics. He had inherited some money from his father, and he took this opportunity to study law. His name appears as a member of the General Assembly in the year of the Stamp Act repeal. He is now a leading member of the Sons of Liberty in Newport. The year is 1766. He has been a widower with six children for two years. On June 28, 1767, he marries for the second time. His second wife is a distant cousin, Abigail Carey, with whom he has ten children. | ||||||||||||
When the delegates to the Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia in March 1776, Samuel Ward, Ellery's old friend, died of smallpox. Ellery was the choice to succeed him. As the signers gathered to affix their signatures to the Declaration, it was said that Ellery stood where he could watch their expressions. Of the 56 signers, nine died of wounds or hardships during the war, five were captured, brutally treated and imprisoned, several lost wives and sons, one lost his thirteen children, two wives were brutally treated, and twelve had their homes burned. William Ellery's property was burned while the British occupied Newport. He did, however, return after the war, and apparently recovered financially. He lived nearly 93 years, dying on February 15, 1820. He was interred in the Coggeshall Cemetery at the corner of Victoria and Coggeshall Avenue in Newport. Later, he was given a tomb in the Common Burying Ground on Farewell Street. |
Ellery is quoted elsewhere concerning the bravery he observed on the face of every single man who signed that revolutionary document, knowing that each might die for the action he was taking on behalf of liberty.
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Thanks, very good post. We need many more with the courage of those men and Ted Cruz.