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IN CONGRESS, THIS DAY, 239 Years Ago...
Divine Providence | July 4, 1776 | Jefferson, Franklin, Sherman, Adams, Livingston

Posted on 07/03/2015 8:59:27 PM PDT by jimjohn

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To: jimjohn

Thanks for posting this.

This is why I don’t have any time for the losers who say America is dead, or isn’t worth fighting for anymore, or deserves to be broken up.

So long as a single American draws breath, the dream is alive. And these profound words from long ago live on to inspire us.


21 posted on 07/04/2015 6:30:03 AM PDT by highball ("I never should have switched from scotch to martinis." -- the last words of Humphrey Bogart)
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To: bluejean

>>Heartbreaking. 239 years later, the country is being dismantled and destroyed by its own now completely corrupt government. Grieves my soul.

The government is only the tool being used to dismantle. Place the blame on the Progressives who loudly demand that the country be reformed in their image, and on the “money people” who pay for their microphones.


22 posted on 07/04/2015 6:58:12 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: jimjohn

Hard to believe there were so many courageous people in congress willing to put there lives on the line for freedom. When today is there even one? (maybe ted cruz, but that’s about it)


23 posted on 07/04/2015 7:06:23 AM PDT by Cubs Fan (Pam Gellar draws pictures, muslims murder people-- liberals speak out against the first)
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To: jimjohn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkjhu2GKYAs

Liberty! The American Revolution Part 5
It ends with this:
“By now everyone’s heard the old story of the soldiers tracking the blood of their feet on the frozen ground. It literally happened. But you don’t know a thousandth part of how we suffered. You never can.”


24 posted on 07/04/2015 7:16:26 AM PDT by Buttons12
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To: GregoTX

That is the blueprint for what despots do, always has been.


25 posted on 07/04/2015 7:22:56 AM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: jimjohn; Pharmboy; Doctor Raoul; indcons; Chani; thefactor; blam; aculeus; ELS; mainepatsfan; ...

This thread may interest the Rev. War Ping list. There’s some good stuff here.

FReep Mail me if you want on, or off, this Rev. War ping list.


26 posted on 07/04/2015 7:57:57 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: GregoTX

Some?! He’s a reincarnated King George.


27 posted on 07/04/2015 8:16:38 AM PDT by madison10 (If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter)
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To: jimjohn

The Lower Counties of Pennsylvania, present day Delaware, declared separation from England on June 15, 1776.

This is known as Separation Day in DE.

The Lower Counties were New Castle, Kent and Sussex, which make up he three counties of present day DE.

This was two weeks before the Declaration was signed in nearby Philadelphia on July 2, 1776.

Revolution was in the wind.

DE was also the first state to ratify the Constitution (Dec. 7,1787), and the last to abolish slavery (Dec. 1865)


28 posted on 07/04/2015 8:29:01 AM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: dayglored

Amen.


29 posted on 07/04/2015 8:31:58 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I'm fed up.)
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To: kaehurowing

Was just reading a book [How to Pray by Torrey] and Paul’s event in Acts 19 was referenced. A businessman who made idols for the false goddess Artemis/Diana started a protest against Christians because they were losing money. Nothing new under the sun.


30 posted on 07/04/2015 8:56:44 AM PDT by huldah1776
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To: jimjohn

Would it not indeed be wise, at this juncture, to compose a similar declaration against the current federal state. That a real leader would compose same and make it his, and our declaration.

The enumeration, the list would be quite long, and the violations demonstrably agains the very Constitution to which all members of that government are sworn to uphold.

Just a thought. Much more effective than a “Contract with America” though it could be renamed from that with the proviso that the actions must be taken or independence will ensue.


31 posted on 07/04/2015 9:16:51 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: jimjohn

Bfl


32 posted on 07/04/2015 9:24:59 AM PDT by goodnesswins (hey..Wussie Americans....ISIS is coming. Are you ready?)
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To: John S Mosby

The next President reading it at inauguration would do


33 posted on 07/04/2015 9:31:09 AM PDT by goodnesswins (hey..Wussie Americans....ISIS is coming. Are you ready?)
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To: jimjohn
On this day, Citizens of the Untied States were created. All subsequently born to them in this country became "natural born citizens."

Natural born citizens were those people born after this date to US Citizens newly created by the Declaration of Independence.

This is our founding document.

34 posted on 07/04/2015 11:25:51 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: bert; rockrr; DoodleDawg
On this day in 1776, the Virginia Convention assembled in Williamsburg declared the Transylvania Colony (Kentucky) purchase by the Richard Henderson & co null and void. In doing so, Virginia asserted control over it’s western lands and declared British law over the colonies invalid.

the action was a first act of independence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Grant_Deed

And no doubt some people will argue that they did not have the right to do such a thing, but instead were duty bound to remain in the Union.

35 posted on 07/04/2015 11:30:56 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: exit82; rockrr; DoodleDawg
The Lower Counties of Pennsylvania, present day Delaware, declared separation from England on June 15, 1776.

This is known as Separation Day in DE.

The Lower Counties were New Castle, Kent and Sussex, which make up he three counties of present day DE.

This was two weeks before the Declaration was signed in nearby Philadelphia on July 2, 1776.

Revolution was in the wind.

DE was also the first state to ratify the Constitution (Dec. 7,1787), and the last to abolish slavery (Dec. 1865)

More relevant history for you.

36 posted on 07/04/2015 11:33:20 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: DiogenesLamp
Thanks for the ping.

And no doubt some people will argue that they did not have the right to do such a thing, but instead were duty bound to remain in the Union.

I suppose someone might but I have no idea who that would be.

37 posted on 07/04/2015 11:54:51 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: rockrr
I suppose someone might but I have no idea who that would be.

Enjoy your Fourth. We should all celebrate independence. :)

38 posted on 07/04/2015 12:01:02 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: bluejean

I like to call them enemies of the United States, not the government because that’s exactly what they are. People who love this country or even mildly respect it don’t do the kind of stuff like what they are doing.


39 posted on 07/04/2015 5:44:06 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 19 acts of Treason and counting.)
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To: huldah1776

May God Almighty continue to bless this country far more than what she is deserving of......


40 posted on 07/04/2015 9:04:22 PM PDT by caww
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