IP: WORTH THINKING ABOUT: OUR INHERITANCE

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
>
> WORTH THINKING ABOUT: OUR INHERITANCE
>
>       American Revolutionary leader Samuel Adams, organizer of the Boston
> Tea Party and signer of the Declaration of Independence, put this value on
> freedom in the year 1771:
>        "The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil
> constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to
> defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair
> inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil
> and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us
> with care and diligence.
>        "It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present
> generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested
> from us by violence without a struggle, or be cheated out of them by the
> artifices of false and designing men.
>        "Of the latter we are in most danger at present; let us therefore be
> aware of it. Let us contemplate our forefathers and posterity; and resolve
> to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of
> the latter.
>       "Instead of sitting down satisfied with the efforts we have already
> made, which is the wish of our enemies, the necessity of the times, more
> than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude,
> and perseverance. Let us remember that 'if we suffer tamely a lawless
> attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.'
> It is a very serious consideration, which should deeply impress our minds,
> that millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers in the event."
>
> See http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0395825105/newsscancom/ for the
> biography, "Samuel Adams: The Father of American Independence" by Denis
> Brindell Fradin -- or look for it in your local library.



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