Americans: “Rebellion can be contagious”
March 3, 2009 Leave a Comment
I am reading Miracle at Philadelphia, the Story of the Constitutional Convention May to September 1787 by Catherine Drinker Bowen. In honor of those working to take a stand, to protest, what is happening in 2009, I share one paragraph from the book.
“…Since ’86, Massachusetts had suffered public humiliation over Shay’s Rebellion in the west. Desperate farmers, ruinously taxed – “by Boston,” they said- and seeing their cattle and their land distrained by the bailiffs, had risen in revolt. With staves and pitchforks they had marched on county courthouses after the best Revolutionary technique, frightening sound-money men out of their wits and rousing General Washington to express disgust and anger that a country which had won a difficult war was not able to keep order in peacetime. By January, 1787, fourteen rioting leaders, earlier condemned to death, had been pardoned; a newly elected Massachusetts legislature would enact many of the reforms the Shaysites had demanded. Yet the stigma of insurrection remained, and the Federal Convention sat men who had themselves suffered at the hands of the mobs: James Wilson, Robert Morris and John Dickinson knew well that rebellion can be contagious.”
“…rebellion can be contagious.”
We are not all farmers with “staves and pitchforks” yet I hope as I share this piece of American History, readers of my post will be renewed in their effort to know that a rebellion 222 years ago made a difference. If the America that was designed by “the miracle of our Constitution” years ago is worth preserving we must rebel now.
Stand up, Americans. Find YOUR way to make your voice heard.
Rebellions can be contagious.
Now is the time for all good taxpayers to turn the tables on free-lunching countrymen and their enablers in Washington. Community organizing helped propel Barack Obama to the White House. It can work for fiscal conservatism, too.
revolution. In a new American Tea Party, citizens across the USA are beginning to protest giant government programs that reach deep into their pockets. These programs create huge economic burdens on American families and threaten their livelihood now and into the future.
The Pajamas TV team including Michelle Malkin, Glenn Reynolds, and Joe Wurzelbacher (aka Joe the Plumber) – are mobilized to help cover this new and evolving revolution.
