Here is another terrific post from William Federer — this time, about the American Revolution — the greatest revolution that has ever taken place:
38-year-old King George III ruled the largest empire that planet earth had ever seen.
The Declaration of Independence, signed JULY 4, 1776, listed 27 reasons why Americans declared their independence from the King:
–He has made judges dependent on his will alone …
–He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
–He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies …
–To subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution …
–For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us …
–For imposing taxes on us without our consent …
–For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of trial by jury …
–For … establishing … an arbitrary government …
–For … altering fundamentally the forms of our governments …
–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 …
–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.“
33-year-old Thomas Jefferson’s original rough draft of the Declaration contained a line condemning slavery:
“He has waged cruel war against human nature itself … in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither …
suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce determining to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold.”
A few delegates from southern states objected, and since the Declaration needed to pass unanimously and time was running short with the British invading New York, the line condemning slavery was unfortunately omitted.
Read more: Patriot Post
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