If I could measure the political temperament of the
country, I would liken today’s to America’s civil war, the first civil war: The
America Revolution. The parallels are
uncanny. We have a president who’s not
held accountable for his policies. King George III was treated the same way. Much of the turmoil that preceded the
Declaration of Independence was considered a political quarrel that got out of
hand. The colonist blamed the king’s
ministers, members of parliament and those who profited from government.
Political disagreement turned bloody. George Washington wrote about his fellow countrymen who were called Tories. Here is an excerpt from Thomas
B. Allen’s Tories, Fighting for the King in America’s First Civil War:
In 1776 Washington had seen Tories merely as
disillusioned people, calling them “Unhappy wretches! Deluded mortals!” But his attitude toward them gradually
hardened. Writing to his brother, John
Augustine, Washington was uncharacteristically nasty about the Loyalist
departure: “All those who took upon themselves the style of government-men in
Boston, in short, all those who have acted an unfriendly part in the great
contest, have shipped themselves off in the same hurry….One or two have done,
what a great number out to have done long ago, committed suicide.
The acts of a monarch that brought about America’s
first civil war are being reenacted today.
The States and their citizens are being marginalized and disenfranchised
by federal bureaucrats and an overzealous attorney general. King George III acted much the same by taking
away the colonies charters, abolishing their laws, and altering their forms of
government. Their next step was to
confiscate firearms and ammunition.
Sound familiar?
How can we avoid the pitfalls of another civil
war? Mark Levin has pointed out the
solution in his book The Liberty Amendments, outlined in article V of our Constitution. But are the States too dependent upon government
largess to shake off the shackles. We’ll
find out. But what I do know is this can’t
last.
If another civil war breaks out, we know our fate if we lose:
death, imprisonment, and slavery. But
what about the legions of government men that infest today’s America. What will we do with today’s Tories? Well, I expect they’ll be treated the same as
their ideological brothers in the 18th century. Many left voluntarily to Canada and other territories of Great
Britain. Others were forced to
leave. States enacted expulsion and
confiscation laws to ensure that their “neighbors” never returned, or made them take loyalty oaths. Here is a statue depicting the fate of the “Loyalist.”
United Empire Loyalist monument in
Hamilton, Ontario. The accompanying plaque reads:
This Monument is Dedicated to the Lasting Memory of The United Empire Loyalists who, after the Declaration of Independence, came into British America from the seceded American Colonies and who, with faith and fortitude, and under great pioneering difficulties, largely laid the foundations of this Canadian nation as an integral part of the British Empire.
Neither confiscation of their property, the pitiless persecution of their kinsmen in revolt, nor the galling chains of imprisonment could break their spirits, or divorce them from a loyalty almost without parallel.
“No country ever had such founders — no country in the world — no, not since the days of Abraham.” — Lady Tennyson
There are plenty of totalitarian countries out there
for the progressives to choose from.
However, there is only one America for us patriots.
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