Is There Ever a line in the Sand?
Feb 14, 2012 10:40:25 GMT -5
Post by Michael Downing on Feb 14, 2012 10:40:25 GMT -5
Many are familiar with George Mason and his part in the quest for American Independence but much lesser known is his younger brother Thomas. As pointed out in the article like today many Patriots posted or wrote articles under an pen name if for no other reason to attempt to keep their identity from being known to the agents of the king. The Imaginative Conservative site has a wealth of information. Mike Church’s article Is There Ever A Line In The Sand? is a good read and reminds us that there is much to be learned still from our founders including those lesser known. We are reminded of the stand they took, why they took it and ultimately from where they drew their strength.
www.imaginativeconservative.org/2012/02/is-there-ever-line-in-sand.html
"You must draw your swords in a just cause, and rely upon that God, who assists the righteous, to support your endeavors to preserve the liberty he gave, and the love of which he hath implanted in your hearts as essential to your nature." Thomas Mason
"It is objected that this measure strikes at the Navigation Acts, which we have long submitted to.
The very objection evinces the folly of trusting the decision of this dispute to posterity, who, familiarized to oppression, will never resist it, and who, by long use, will be accustomed to look upon every badge of slavery with as little horror as we do upon the Navigation Acts, which ought certainly to be considered as impositions of the strong upon the weak, and as such ought to be resisted as much as any of the other Acts we complain of ; nor will the dispute ever be ended till, by refusing submission to them, we remove so dangerous a precedent.
"You must draw your swords in a just cause, and rely upon that God, who assists the righteous, to support your endeavors to preserve the liberty he gave, and the love of which he hath implanted in your hearts as essential to your nature."
And now, my friends, fellow-citizens, and countrymen, to convince you that I am in earnest in the advice I have given you, notwithstanding the personal danger I expose myself to in so doing ; notwithstanding the threats thrown out by the British aristocracy of punishing in England those who shall dare to oppose them in America ; yet because I do not wish to survive the liberty of my country one single moment ; because I am determined to risk my all in supporting that liberty, and because I think it in some measure dishonest to skulk under a borrowed name upon such an occasion as this, I am neither afraid or ashamed to avow that the letters signed ' A British American' were written by the hand and flowed from the heart of "
-THOMSON MASON
www.imaginativeconservative.org/2012/02/is-there-ever-line-in-sand.html
"You must draw your swords in a just cause, and rely upon that God, who assists the righteous, to support your endeavors to preserve the liberty he gave, and the love of which he hath implanted in your hearts as essential to your nature." Thomas Mason
"It is objected that this measure strikes at the Navigation Acts, which we have long submitted to.
The very objection evinces the folly of trusting the decision of this dispute to posterity, who, familiarized to oppression, will never resist it, and who, by long use, will be accustomed to look upon every badge of slavery with as little horror as we do upon the Navigation Acts, which ought certainly to be considered as impositions of the strong upon the weak, and as such ought to be resisted as much as any of the other Acts we complain of ; nor will the dispute ever be ended till, by refusing submission to them, we remove so dangerous a precedent.
"You must draw your swords in a just cause, and rely upon that God, who assists the righteous, to support your endeavors to preserve the liberty he gave, and the love of which he hath implanted in your hearts as essential to your nature."
And now, my friends, fellow-citizens, and countrymen, to convince you that I am in earnest in the advice I have given you, notwithstanding the personal danger I expose myself to in so doing ; notwithstanding the threats thrown out by the British aristocracy of punishing in England those who shall dare to oppose them in America ; yet because I do not wish to survive the liberty of my country one single moment ; because I am determined to risk my all in supporting that liberty, and because I think it in some measure dishonest to skulk under a borrowed name upon such an occasion as this, I am neither afraid or ashamed to avow that the letters signed ' A British American' were written by the hand and flowed from the heart of "
-THOMSON MASON