The colonies had been in conflict with England for over a year in June of 1776. A Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia on June 7 of that year. Richard Henry Lee from Virginia offered up a resolution with these now famous words:
“Resolved: That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.”
Lee’s words spurred the drafting of the Declaration of Independence. A committee of five was appointed to draft a statement making the case for the colonies, a statement to the world of the intent and the reason behind that intent.
Members of the Committee were John Adams of Massachusetts, Roger Sherman of Connecticut, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Robert R. Livingston of New York and Thomas Jefferson of Virginia. Jefferson took on the task of actually drafting the document as we know it today.
The Continental Congress reconvened on July 1, 1776, and on the following day, the resolution for independence by Lee was adopted by 12 of the 13 colonies, with New York not voting. Minor changes were made to the Jefferson document.
Work on the document continued through July 3 and into the afternoon of July 4, when the Declaration was officially adopted by the Congress. Of the 13 colonies, nine voted in favor of the Declaration, two — Pennsylvania and South Carolina — voted No, Delaware was undecided and New York again abstained.
As we all know, John Hancock, President of the Congress made his signature large enough for King George to read “without his spectacles.”
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. – That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, – That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. – Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
The complete list of those who signed were:
John Hancock (president of the Continental Congress), Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry, Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery, Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott, William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris, Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark, Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross, Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean, Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton, William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn, Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton, Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, and George Walton.
Check out this link for the sobering fate of many of those who so pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor. [H/T to TheOriginalG-d&Country for this source.]
Those are the facts about our Declaration of Independence, the history that we as school children have learned since the creation of this great nation that we celebrate, that we love and honor so.
Usually we humans can’t adequately find words to express our own sentiments, let alone those of a nation and successive generations to come, but Jefferson and that Continental Congress did just that.
The words have stood throughout several centuries as a clarion call for freedom, for breaking free of tyranny, for men to put aside their individual causes and join together to battle for the right of every man, woman and child together to become a people united in goal and resolve.
Today as we celebrate, today as we pledge allegiance to a flag that has gone from 13 stars to 50, may we remember not only the sacrifice, but the resolve. May we honor not only the words, but the unity and deeds of our forefathers. May each of us dig deep into our hearts and work out our differences for the betterment of our nation and our children and grandchildren.
Say a prayer for America today. Rekindle hope today. Honor the past by determining the future.
Please remember that this is a post in honor of our Independence Day. No political content, no rants, so slamming the other side. Today we are just Americans, honoring our country and each other.
THE LEE MEN. Great patriots , a noble family. Shame on those who participated in desecrating the honors we bestowed on them –especially Robert Edward. https://www.stratfordhall.org/the-lee-men/
And ages of all of them were what, 20s-40s with Franklin being the oldest? Jefferson was in his 30s. I know life spans as they were made 40s/50s the current 70s/80s and their 20s/30s were our 40s/50s or so. Dang they packed a bunch of living in a few years. Pretty much no time for TV, twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.
I Pray we return to such simpler times as those, No TV, No Internet etc. The world was a Much better place without the Industrial revolution.
Well, yes and no. It was rough as a cob and the basic necessities of life took all the daylight hours to procure and create. But in many ways, the old way of life was Superior. Far More Time For Thought and reflection even when you are out walking behind the plow.
Yeah … speaking of corncobs … I don’t know how I could survive without my new bidet toilet seat. Yes, I’ve grown soft … but I’m slightly >65 … so that’s my RIGHT! Right? Hopefully, I live long-enough … before President Buttigag legalizes the elimination of old people … in yet another great moment in dystopian “progress”
A beautiful refresher and reminder of how we became America. God bless the men who started the fight for freedom and independence of a sovereign nation called America.
Thank you, menagerie.
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Jefferson advocated for public education and the founders knew that the democratic republic was tethered to a moral population. The democrats have corrupted education and the democrats by virtue of their abortion addiction alone have no moral center of gravity. This is the struggle we are in today. Add to that the stunning ignorance of the liberal/progressive/democrat/left/confederates (LPDLC) and America is confronting a serious head wind.
Not to mention the corrupt and elitist Republicans who aid and abet them. Sorry, Menagerie, I am slamming the other side. How soon we forget.
Public education opened the door to political indoctrination at taxpayer expense, and under government coercion. Who decides what is taught? Jefferson never imagined any of this. He naively believed in an objective truth that could never be subjugated to political imperative.
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.
John Adams
That beautiful document specifies the axioms of the American System: all men are created equal; they have rights that exist beyond the control of government; the function of government is to preserve those rights; when government fails at that task, it can be replaced.
No wonder it isn’t stressed in schools anymore.
Let us then begin the replacement. Voting is No Longer an Option in my honest opinion. At 60 years of age I am Ready, Willing and (somewhat) Able to Fight to begin Anew with the Renewed United States of America IF it be so named. If called I would give ALL to ensure that future generation Learn the TRUE way of America, and utterly remove and abolish the “other” side, be it in Public or Private affairs.
Why live on your knees which is what is coming if we don’t do something.
Fight on your feet, but how, when and where?
Dear Lord, help us know. The election fraud will continue, the intentional destruction of our Country will continue, the murder and destruction of our “jabbed” children will continue, we are lost and doomed if we do not literally focus our lives on the coming election and organize to fight because we are expecting fraud again.
The left is intentionally killing the country without out trying to hide it expecting to cheat again. They are not stupid, they have an evil ideology which they are implementing. If nothing makes sense then you understand it’s by design.
One nation UNDER GOD.
That’s how we’ve gone off the rails.
Your words are always uplifting and honorable. They bring me to tears. God bless the USA!
But, but, but… he owned slaves. Hence everything he ever said or did … must be cancelled. His statues must be toppled. Nevermind historical perspective …
Unfortunately, fewer Americans each year care about such things. Today, in fact, we are subject to a government far more intrusive and far more abusive than King George III could have imagined, yet a large percentage of our fellow citizens cheer its depredations.
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it
Easier said than done, especially when merely objecting to ballot fraud is vigorously prosecuted as an act of terrorism.
Agreed
Nobody has said it would be easy. It wasn’t “easy” for our forefathers. Yet, thanks to their courage, we inherited a free country. Let us not be the generation that betrays them.
Tyranny under cover of the constitution has been a long time coming, over 100 years, in fact. It was facilitated by three pernicious innovations: 1) The rise of the administrative state; the denigration of the U.S. Senate; and, finally, 3) the rise of the welfare state.
We are now a country where most receive some form of government largesse, where unelected and politically unaccountable bureaucrats make the vast majority of decisions far from public scrutiny, and where our votes are rendered meaningless, decoupling elected office holders from public accountability.
I voted for NONE of this, most of which preceded my birth. Who, then, betrayed whom?
They didn’t have to outsmart a nightmarish orwellian surveillance state. Not that it can’t be done. We can take back our country one county at a time. Tactical Civics.
I believe if we pushed back just a wee bit this mess would fold, too much fear on both sides. These people are bullies, average bullies. Step forward instead of back.
Dont ya think if they could immediately enslave us all or kill us they already would have? The wall around the capital speaks for itself.
Paper tigers! I say paper Goliath’s . David the pizza boy (brought bread and cheese to his brothers) killed the giant, well God killed him David just stood up.
They are paper people who have never done a hard days work in their miserable existence. Without their gov goon squads they are nothing. There are more of us than goons. A lot more.
People tried pushing back just a little bit on 6 January 2021. What did it get them? They’re now hounded to the ends of the earth by our illegitimate, tyrannical government, aided and abetted by its masters among the Globalist Cabal.
And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, “Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird”
All the more reason to abolish this monstrosity they call “democracy” with their noses in the air.
Since our votes have been made irrelevant, there is no longer any democratic process in the USA, and no avenue for political redress short of violence, I regret to point out.
It’s coming. Guaranteed. Patience. It won’t be bloody. Trump is a genius…
As DJT likes to say, “We’ll see what happens.”
DJT might be a genius, but that didn’t prevent his duly elected government being overthrown.
Or was DJT following God’s plan? I feel like Trump left the White House but never left the people. He still talks like he did while President, he still has ‘pull’ in some of the elections. Granted Georgia did not go as planned but then it is corrupt like a lot of the states and most of government. Politicians want power, Trump was not a politician and still isn’t. He is in this for love of country and also found a stronger faith during these dark times. He is mentioning God more and more in his quotes and speeches. He took credit for appointing the SC judges but he said is was God’s Will that took place. Trump has used this time to grow in faith and patience. Something is happening you can feel it in the air, what I do not know but I do know it is all in God’s Hands and that is why i am not terrified. If this country is meant to fall due to turning from God, i am sure God will rebuild it if enough people turn to Him. He has used Trump to expose everything and may or may not use Trump to rebuild. All I know is God is in control and that is fine with me, gives me peace of mind.
When principles meant more than loft morals. To honor these men would be to be more like them.
Conservative mama explains the Constitution to her new neighbor: https://rumble.com/v1ace0w-theyve-been-lying-to-you.html
Shock and awwwe
-poor thing
I’m not celebrating anything
Today
We are not the country that my ancestors lost everything when they
Signed that Declaration
My 1776 blood boils at these Tryrants
I cannot type more or I will get a alphabet visit
I’m just shocked and disappointed that nobody I know has the same feelings
They just took our freedom
WAKE UP
Oldjunkfixer,
I’m surprised that your post made it through the adrem screen.
We are supposed to be focusing on the noble ideals of this great nation today in this forum. Not pointing out the realities.
Now, go celebrate, with Chinese-made flags and fireworks, bought with your fiat money in free-fall, and stop being so negative.
We’re the land of the free, home of the brave, remember?
I understand your position. I do celebrate the ideals of our founding, not the place that we’ve arrived at today. Our country needs a reckoning. Enough people need to WAKE UP to ensure sufficient political support, at the state levels, to make the change happen, even if the cost is high. Even if some states must chart a new path. The cost of no action is much higher. It’s deeply disappointing, but I see no other way. Everything else just delays or avoids what I see as inevitable.
There are millions of us in this country who feel the same way as you. Freedom was stolen and it must be returned. That is not negotiable. I don’t know when, but I do believe it will be inevitable.
In memory of three of our first five presidents who died 191 and 196 years ago today.
Bill Kristol is appropriating the fourth for himself.
Ass.
Wow, a stunning lack of self awareness on the part of Bill Kristol.
America First or Make America Great Again is unpatriotic? I don’t think that word means what you think it means, Bill.
Independence Day, July 4th, is the quintessential American holiday. God bless all Americans, especially our Treepers.
Bill Kristol is an old establishment rino republican who has no idea of the real America. He is one of those republicans that is in fact an elite globalist, left leaning democrat, but hides his true self behind his fancy words. He needs to be sent packing, his opinions fought against and exposed for what his traitorous views truly represent. He is one of those bringing harm to America.
Yup. Kristol’s arse is owned by those who intend America to be nothing more than a memory.
What Krusty Kristol the Klown fails to grasp
Is my consent left the room the moment
I realized the Vote is corrupted
So the Government stole my consent
And when they want something from me…
LMAO
Good luck with that !
What a load of hogwash! He keeps mentioning the “consent of the governed” – is he afraid that the governed are about to withdraw their consent?
What a c()nt. The 4th stands AGAINST America First!? This man needs to read the Primer posted above. Every single word, Jefferson wrote screams America First! Perhaps Kristol is afflicted with the same cognitive impairments of our current (illegitimate) President?
Therefore America last represents 4th of July? In exactly what fk’ed up universe is this reality? Tree, rope, Bill Kristol. Some assembly required.
I highly recommend “1776” and “John Adams” by David McCullough for well-written, well-researched accounts of the Founding of this great experiment we call America!
Excellent book and I highly recommend others books by David McCullouh.
Thank you vikingmom may you have a Blessed day.
I read John Adams. It’s in my “cancelled” collection now.
David McCullough:
“It is of value, it is of interest unto itself. It’s an extension, an enlargement of the experience of being alive. That’s what history is. And I don’t think anyone ought to be, or really wants to be, provincial in time, any more than one would want to stay locked in the same place in the map all one’s life. I have to say too if the Revolutionary War had been covered — 1776 is the most important year in the most important conflict in our history — if it had been covered by the Media, and the country had seen now horrible the conditions were, how badly things were being run by the officers, and what a very serious soup we were in, I think that would have been it, too.”
“And so many of the blessings and advantages we have, so many of the reasons why our civilization, our culture, has flourished aren’t understood; they’re not appreciated. And if you don’t have any appreciation of what people went through to get, to achieve, to build what you are benefiting from, then these things don’t mean very much to you. You just think, well, that’s the way it is. That’s our birthright. That just happened. But it didn’t just happen. And at what price? What grief? What disappointment? What suffering went on? I mean this. I think that to be ignorant or indifferent to history isn’t just to be uneducated or stupid. It’s to be rude, ungrateful. And ingratitude is an ugly failing in human beings.”
That is an amazing quote! Thank you SO much for sharing it with us, Gipper!
“I think that to be ignorant or indifferent to history isn’t just to be uneducated or stupid. It’s to be rude, ungrateful. And ingratitude is an ugly failing in human beings.”
Yes, yes, YES!!!
As we celebrate and take stock of where we are in the fight to preserve and restore Liberty, we must understand that the crowns of old Europe NEVER truly recognized the USA as a ” Free Sovereign ” Nation.
In the early 1800’s , the ” High Contracting Parties ” signed a contract with each other that has never been repealed. They still consider the USA ‘ their ‘ breakaway possession. These are who make up the Fabian socialist society , the WEF , UN loyalists , Bilderbergs , Committee of 300 and so on. Here is documentation of where it began.
” THE SECRET TREATY OF VERONA ” – was read into the Congressional Record in 1916. A fact most are unaware of.
Richard Stockton (a distant relative of mine) signed the Declaration of Independence and he was from Philadelphia. So it’s interesting that Pennsylvania voted no on that document. Richard Stockton would later have all his possessions confiscated by the British and was arrested and imprisoned in New York harbor on a freezing cold prison ship for six months, totally destroying his health and he died a few short years later penniless. A lot of the Signers met similar fates, the British were right bastards.
Oops, my mistake. Judge Richard Stockton was from New Jersey, not Philadelphia. IIRC his estate was just across the river from Philadelphia, I guess close to where Cherry Hill NJ is today.
https://gab.com/
Wow!
-powerful patriot
Maybe we should let the Dems go one more term in the Senate then take it back?
Fantastic – we need more men like him.
This historic sign is in the rock strewn mountains of NJ sort of in between, but north, of Trenton & Princeton. I used to drive by it frequently when I lived in the area.
John Hart was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, became a marked man and was targeted by agents of the tyranny he was fighting against who sought to destroy him for having the temerity to fight back.
The similarity to what was done to Hart then and what’s being done to the J6 protesters now (and all Americans aggrieved by the stolen election) is NOT a coincidence.
https://www.founderoftheday.com/founder-of-the-day/john-hart-cave-dweller
Once I heard Rush tell this this story, it left a mark on my heart that I will not forget. Menagerie posted above a link to a list of the signers and their fates after signing the D of I. But Rush’s father’s story reads so well….
My Father’s Speech: The Americans Who Risked Everything
Nov 21, 2018
My father, Rush H. Limbaugh, Jr., delivered this oft-requested address locally a number of times, but it had never before appeared in print until it was published in The Limbaugh Letter. My dad was renowned for his oratory skills and for his original mind; this speech is, I think, a superb demonstration of both. I will always be grateful to him for instilling in me a passion for the ideas and lives of America’s Founders, as well as a deep appreciation for the inspirational power of words, which you will see evidenced here:
Read his account of the fates of the signers of the Declaration of Independence:
https://live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io/daily/2018/11/21/my-fathers-speech-the-americans-who-risked-everything/
Thank you GB and have a Blessed day Sir!
Thanks and a Blessed day to you also!
Thank you! Always so much to learn… I passed this around!
You’re most welcome, enjoy the 4th!
From Greg Laurie today ~
greglaurie “This is all the more urgent, for you know how late it is; time is running out. Wake up, for our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.” —Romans 13:11
When George Washington was fighting in the Revolutionary War as the general of the Continental Army, he had a special flag prepared with the words, “An Appeal to Heaven.” Washington understood that our only hope to become a nation was through God’s intervention.
We still need to appeal to heaven for our nation today.
In 2 Chronicles 7:14, God says, “If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land” (NKJV).
There’s no question that God has blessed our nation in so many ways. We even sing about it: “America! America! God shed His grace on thee. And crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea.”
But I believe America needs to wake up spiritually. Romans 13:11 says, “This is all the more urgent, for you know how late it is; time is running out. Wake up, for our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed” (NLT).
It’s time for us to wake up. It’s time for us to turn back to God. Will God send a spiritual awakening to our country? I don’t know. I hope He does. I hope He sends one or two or three more.
Chuck Smith is regarded as the father of the last great spiritual awakening known as the Jesus Movement. I once asked him whether he thought we would ever see another Jesus Movement.
“I don’t know, Greg,” he said. “I don’t know if we are desperate enough.”
How desperate are we for God to send another spiritual awakening? If we are desperate enough, then we’ll start praying about it. This Fourth of July, I’m praying that God will send another spiritual awakening to our nation. Will you join me in that prayer?
“I don’t know if we are desperate enough.”
We are not. Until we are, we must prepare and remain armed to the teeth.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created … by the — you know — you know the thing,”
OMG … was that a quote from our current (illegitimate) President’s July 4th address today? Sounds like it …
On this July 4th anniversary, J6 Americans have been and continue to be in solitary confinement for well over a year.
“For the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the
protection of the Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each
other, our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.”
Destiny of The Signers of The Declaration of Independence
https://nhccs.org/Destiny.html
Thanks for bringing them up. They truly deserve recognition for standing up for all of us.
I’m sure the powers that be realize they’ve painted themselves into a corner….IF/WHEN these citizens are released, can you IMAGINE the books, interviews, law suits that will follow ~~~
They pledged their lives their fortunes and their sacred honor. Besides the words, Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, we wouldn’t have a Republic.
Thank you Menagerie
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Can we change the date and consignor?
By all that is holy.
We could replace all reference to Great Britain and the King and insert Washington DC, then send this Declaration to Congress the White House, as a reminder of what happened after it was sent.
DC, we Declare our independence. Again!
“Events Leading Up to Revolutionary War at Sutori.com > French-Indian War, 1754-1763 (fund and bankrupt both sides) > Quartering Act 1765 > Stamp Act 1765 > Townshend Act 1767 > Boston Massacre 1770 > Lexington & Concord, 1775
WE HAVE BEEN SYSTEMATICALLY LIED TO ABOUT EVERYTHING
FYI Menagerie, the signature block you show is not from the DoI — Thomas Cushing, whose signature is prominent two spaces above Hancock’s, did not sign the DoI.
LISTEN: Lee Greenwood, US soldiers release new version of ‘God Bless the USA’
Great! How can one feel so proud and so very sad at the same time???
Thank you for posting this, M!
Praying for my country.
Is seems some of the abuses of the past, are eerily similar to the abuses of the present. Just with different tyrants,
“He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance”. Perhaps our sacred document is also a checklist.
Agreed.
With the current regime collapsing perhaps all we will have to do is make our voices heard and wait.
Happy Independence Day, America, as we celebrate the final outcome of a series of protracted events that were only made possible by citizens with military-grade firearms. And, yes, Trump won. Carry on.
The First Amendment to the United States Constitution
is the part of the United States Bill of Rights that
protects the right of the people to Religion and Expression.
As ratified by the States:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment
of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press;
or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and
to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution
is the part of the United States Bill of Rights that
protects the right of the people to keep and bear arms.
As ratified by the States:
“A well regulated militia being necessary to the security
of a free state, the right of the people to keep and
bear arms shall not be infringed.”
Happy 246th birthday to our shining beacon of freedom. The United States of America.
Thank you for this. I’m in total agreement with “honor the past by determining the future”.
Thank You for this great reminder. Incredibly, as I read this document, regarding the disgusting behavior of the King. I can’t help but think that it now applies to our King in Washington DC and his hand maidens in congress. Free people cannot long live under, or be ruled, by the despotism and debauchery we are now experiencing. Something has to give. Our elected representatives are no longer honorable people who want the best for their electors, but act with impunity against the best interests of the common man. Something, sooner or later, has to give…..
Love my country
H/T upcountrymasformationpsychosis
The Declaration of Independence ! Our Lives, Our Fortunes, and Our Sacred Honor !
What happened to the rich signers of this document… 10 min..
… the real significance of the Fourth of July lies in the expression of what is undoubtedly the most revolutionary political declaration in history: that man’s rights are inherent, God-given, and natural and, thus, do not come from government. — Jacob Hornberger
https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/real-meaning-fourth-july/
. “And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, ”
Yes, Almighty God!
Thank you, Menagerie, for this post.
I find interesting that three of the drafting committee members – Jefferson, Adams and Franklin – spent most of the war in Paris, looking for and securing international support, loans, treaties, and most important in the end, naval support from France.
Yorktown would not have been the decisive defeat for Lord Cornwallis, had the British Navy been able to maintain its blockade of Hampton Roads, the Navy being his only source of resupply, or avenue of retreat. Two fleets of French ships – one from Rhode Island the other from the Caribbean – coordinated to arrive simultaneously at the mouth of the Chesapeake, forcing a British naval withdrawal. Cornwallis ran out of options.
The heroism, hardship and grit of the American Patriots fighting with Washington and the various militias were matched by the results of their diplomatic effort, producing a strategically brilliant coordinated land and sea operation capable of defeating the British Empire.
Family legend has it that an ancestor of mine, a blockade running ship captain, played a small role in that coordination between the fleets.
Freedom of worship to assemble.
Freedom to protest there is liberty.
When we no longer have the ability to re-address our government, there is no liberty.
Freedom to keep and bear arms is liberty
Freedom to have our associations and opinions is Liberty.
Freedom is the right to privacy in your homes. Freedom in our own effects and personal papers.
Freedom
These are NOT civil rights they are endowed by our Creator. A natural God ordained right.
Also, something to remember is that the American revolution had many defeats, stalemates, and yes a few victories along the way.
But they won in the end because their will to push back, in whatever capacity they had, lasted longer than that of their enemies.
The Patriots were holding onto something deeply more motivating than their enemy’s useful idiots, conscripts and mercenaries were.
Their prize of victory was for them or at least their children to be free of an illegitimate Feudal Class system of the World.
Now in our day, their evil heirs represented by the DC Uniparty/EU/CCP/UN/Davos/WEF are attempting to reimpose Global Feudalism upon – “The Last Best Hope of Man on Earth”
Based upon the false notion that they are somehow intellectually superior to the common man. An idea that has been disproven in suffering and mass graves for countless generations.
Hey Lefties …
This is how REAL AMERICANS virtue signal.
Awesome. Happy Independence Day!!
I got chills that are multiplying…. :):)
understand my purpose here: 1776 July 4 is a day we celebrate the official declaration of independence that 12 of the 13 delegates of the constitutional congress signed and agreed to.
It is no doubt one of the most important dates in USA history.
But was freedom won in that date? When did the United States actually win it’s freedom? When did conflict end a a treastise signed by all parties such that the USA was recognized by the crown?
lets just start with July 4th 1776 and begin from that point in time to illustrate the reality of the American Revolutionary War. It simply “started” officially when the 2nd continental congress recorded and signed the declaration. But the conflict, skirmishes and even combat close hand to hand and small arms had been occurring for nearly 14 years already. with 1774-1776 being particularly a war intensification period. Most historians agree that in 1775 and 1776 the early colonists in at least all of the 13 states had been engaged in military scale fighting with the enemy: the british crown and it’s troops, mercenaries, pirates and conscripted native american indians.
..Each of those kinetic events in one way shape or form related to the issue of an overbearing overlord over common citizens. Stifling prosperity, over taxation, no representations…kangaroo courts…laws prosecuted without due process …excessive fines and penalties. censorship and propaganda…secret loyalist traitors….etc.
so that’s 14 years of fairly frequents kinetic engagements with the tyrannt state with that last year, 1775-1776 being especially violent in scale and scope.
then 1776, the second continental congress documents the declaration and begins to assemble three powerful and effective statesmen/ambassadors who will take these documents and plea before the British Crown, the French King, and the Spain (who would later go to war with the british crown in 1778). This is a formal declaration of not merely a sovereign display of independence but also terms set out to condition what the colonies were prepared to perform if the british crown continued and did not relent. This was spelling out the terms of war in detail.
But what actually happened ONE THE GROUND IN THE UNITED STATES WHERE THE FIGHTING INTENSIFIED?
What happens AFTER 1776. This is where the “war” truly begins. This where more men and women fought collectively and in a very organized and focused national level to defeat a lawless occupier and overlord.
here is a short list of events that happened AFTER the declaration of independence was signed:
George Washington Crosses the Delaware River
December 1776 to January 1777
In a bold move, Washington moves his troops into New Jersey on Christmas night. The patriots then surprise a force of German troops fighting for Britain at Trenton on December 26. They achieve a similar victory over British troops at Princeton on January 3, reviving hopes that the war just might be winnable. The army then encamps for the winter at Morristown, New Jersey.
War in the North: 1777 to 1778
Battle of Saratoga: Britsh Setback
October 17, 1777
General John Burgoyne’s attempt to separate the rebellious New England colonies from those farther south ends in a spectacular failure. The surrender of 6,000 British regulars at Saratoga will shock London and help induce France to enter the war on the American side.
Winter of Change for the Continental Army
December 1777
With the British occupying Philadelphia just 20 miles away, the Continental Army enters winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. During the winter, supply arrangements will be improved and the Continental troops will be drilled and emerge as a more disciplined, unified fighting force.
France Enters the War Against Britain
February 1778
As a result of the patriot victory at Saratoga and American diplomatic efforts, France allies itself with the new American government. French financial and military aid will prove critical in winning the war. The Continental Army will learn of the French Alliance in May.
George Rogers Clark Attacks the British in Ohio Country
May to December, 1778
With barely 150 men, Virginian George Rogers Clark captures several British posts in the Ohio Territory (present-day Illinois and Indiana) and convinces French-speaking inhabitants of Kaskaskia and Cahokia to support the patriot side. Although Indians will continue to oppose white settlement for three decades, Clark’s exploits pave the way for the expansion of the U.S. north of the Ohio River.
Southern Campaigns: 1779 to 1781
Charleston Falls to the British
May 12, 1780
The British take Charleston, S.C., capture a large patriot army, and deal the rebels one of their worst defeats of the war. The Charleston move is part of a broader British strategy to hang on to the southern colonies, at least, now that the war is stalemated in Pennsylvania and New York.
Kings Mountain Victory Revives Patriot Hopes
October 7, 1780
Patriot militia from the Carolinas, Virginia, and present-day Tennessee surround and defeat a force of loyalists under Major Patrick Ferguson at Kings Mountain, S.C. Indicating the deep divisions within America, Ferguson is the only British soldier on the field-Kings Mountain is truly a battle among Americans about their future.
Battle of Cowpens: American Tide Continues
January 17, 1781
Continental soldiers and patriot militia under General Daniel Morgan defeat a British force under Banastre Tarleton at Cowpens. Coming on the heels of the victory at Kings Mountain, Cowpens helps convince worried patriots that the British southern strategy can be countered.
Guilford Courthouse: Costly British Victory
March 15, 1781
British troops win a costly victory over Continentals and militia at Guilford Courthouse, N.C. The battle is part of General Nathanael Greene’s strategy of engaging the British on ground of his choosing. Without winning a single clear-cut victory, he will succeed in wearing down the British army through hit-and-run tactics and set-piece battles.
Ninety-Six: Longest Siege of the War
May to June, 1781
The isolated British garrison at Ninety Six is laid siege to by patriot forces under Gen. Nathanael Greene. The approach of a British relief column leads Greene to make a final, unsuccessful assault on the fort on June 18. The events at Ninety Six underline the fact that Britain has too few troops to hold the southern hinterlands.
Yorktown: Large British Army Surrenders
September to October, 1781
A joint French and American force traps a large British army on Virginia’s Yorktown peninsula. Unable to evacuate or receive reinforcements because a French fleet has driven off a British fleet, General Cornwallis is forced to surrender. Although New York City and Charleston, S.C., will remain in British hands until a peace treaty is signed two years later, the war for American independence is essentially over.
Aftermath: 1782 to 1787
Loyalists Leave America
January 1782
The evacuation of loyalists begins. Largely unwelcome in the new United States, about 100,000 Americans who remained loyal to the crown find new lives in Britain, Canada, and British colonies in the West Indies. Among them are about 15,000 African Americans, some of whom end up helping to found the country of Sierra Leone in Africa. The loyalist experience will have a profound effect on the development of Canada’s national identity.
Treaty of Paris Officially Ends the War
September 3, 1783
The Treaty of Paris ratifies the independence of the 13 North American states. Canada remains a British province, beginning its separate development as a U.S. neighbor. Another war with England (1812 – 1815) will be necessary to truly secure the American nation.
American Victory Pushes Indians Farther West
October 1784
The Treaty of Fort Stanwix imposes a peace on those members of the Iroquois Confederacy that sided with the British in the Revolution. The war’s aftermath will prove devastating to Native Americans. With no European allies to rely upon, Indian tribes will be under increasing pressure from settlers moving west out of the original 13 states.
U.S. Constitution Replaces Articles of Confederation
1787
A convention of states in Philadelphia proposes the Constitution to replace the much looser central government operating under the Articles of Confederation (adopted in 1777). With amendments, the Constitution remains the framework of government in the U.S.
in fact, it would take 11 years 1776-1887 for the ‘war’ to end and to put into place a legal constitution and representative democracy into place ….
we celebrate today that marks the official signing of the declaration….it’s definitely an important date…but it would take many many more years and lives to win actual freedom and sovereignty. It would take even longer to actually develop a form of government that was practical and not simply theoretical.
This is the nature of revolutions. there a element of a revolution that seem to happen very quickly. But generally completing all stages 1-7 of a revolution requires a considerable amount of effort, human cost, sacrifice, focus, and tireless ambition and courage.
Americans were forced to do these things because there was no other options acceptable or bearable.
We the people will be experiencing this again soon.
God Bless America
Thank you.
It is important to add that the British throne signed the peace treaty with every intention of coming back to “mop up” once the colonies failed to create a viable nation, which the arrogant British assumed would be the natural result of the different cultures and religions of the colonies.
They did not count on the brilliance of James Madison, who fully absorbed both the Scottish Enlightenment and an independent spirit from Rev. Witherspoon, then the head of Princeton.
After the war, when the newly independent states were realizing that the 1777 Constitution was failing, Madison conducted a thorough and careful study of political history to identify the causes of the falls of governments, which he set out in a report to Congress. This became the driving force behind the adoption of the current U.S. Constitution, with its limited, enumerated powers, and its checks and balances.
It was a document that held up for 234 years, until the Republic was overthrown by foreign and domestic infiltration on November 6, 2020, which acts of war and treason were finalized by the vote of a corrupted and treasonous legislature on January 6, 2021, with the active participation of the then sitting Vice President of the United States (in exchange for a challenge coin, thirty pieces of silver having suffered from price inflation).
The President, however, never surrendered. Neither did the American patriot. We remain at war with enemies, foreign and domestic, to win back our freedoms and our Republic.
The last year has been our strategic retreat from New York. This is now our Valley Forge. We await our Kings Mountain: A battle fought between mostly Scots/Scots Irish, as a sort of repeat of Culloden – because history repeats, and the past is never dead. It isn’t even past.
I have greatly enjoyed watching the America Rising series, and Legends and Lies. Many of your paragraphs above recount these milestones.
I am so grateful that we had men of such caliber, and especially as we see our feckless, cowardly Pubbie Boys now, despicable as they are.
Regitiger: Thank you for taking the time. I respectfully offer one addition, only because I feel like it’s was central to the revolution and is relevant to our current predicament.
During those 14 or so years leading up to July 3, 1776, the civil unrest was not initiated by an organic citizen uprising. Initially, British laws prohibiting direct trade between the colonies and foreign countries. It was the merchants whose profits were affected that goaded (with newspapers, pamphlets and speeches) laborers (led by people like Samual Adam’s) to rise up with pamphlets and speeches to rise up.
Then, like now, the wealthy and powerful enlisted ordinary people to do their dirty work. The current work of the politically connected “wealthy merchants” at Planned Parenthood to rile up the citizenry is similar.
During revolutionary times, the majority of the merchant class supported overthrowing the government. There were loyalists, but they were about a 20% minority.
I offer this to suggest we must consider the different alignment of the large majority of our merchant (and banking) class, the majority being aligned with the regime. This time around, those interests see globalism as the path to greater power and profit. Different strategies will be required.
Thank you for that extremely informative post. History has a way of REPEATING itself!
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