That same Spirit of freedom which actuated those Sons of Liberty at first, will accompany them still.
Excerpts from (Member of British Parliament) Col. Isaac Barré’s 1765 speech against the Stamp Act, and from Patrick Henry’s March 23, 1775 speech in favor of war against the British at St. John’s Church in Richmond, Virginia:
“They planted by your Care? No! your Oppressions planted ‘em in America. They fled from your Tyranny to a then uncultivated and unhospitable Country—where they exposed themselves to almost all the hardships to which human Nature is liable, and among others to the Cruel ties of a Savage foe, the most subtle and I take upon me to say the most formidable of any People upon the face of Gods Earth. And yet, actuated by Principles of true English Lyberty, they met all these hardships with pleasure, compared with those they suffered in their own Country, from the hands of those who should have been their Friends
“They nourished up by your indulgence? they grew by your neglect of Em:—as soon as you began to care about Em, that Care was Exercised in sending persons to rule over Em, in one Department and another, who were perhaps the Deputies of Deputies to some Member of this house—sent to Spy out their Lyberty, to misrepresent their Actions & to prey upon Em; men whose behavior on many Occasions has caused the Blood of those Sons of Liberty to recoil within them; men promoted to the highest Seats of Justice, some, who to my knowledge were glad by going to a foreign Country to Escape being brought to the Bar of a Court Justice of their own.
“They protected by your Arms? They have nobly taken up Arms in your defence, have Exerted a Valour amidst their constant & Laborious industry for the defence of a Country, whose frontier, while drench’d in blood, its interior Parts have yielded all its little Savings to your Emolument. And believe me, remember I this Day told you so, that same Spirit of freedom which actuated that people at first, will accompany them still. —But, prudence forbids me to explain myself further. God knows I do not at this Time speak from motives of party Heat, what I deliver are the genuine Sentiments of my heart; however superior to me in general knowledge and Experience the reputable body of this house may be, yet I claim to know more of America than most of you, having seen and been conversant in that Country. The People I believe are as truly Loyal as any subjects the King has, but a people Jealous of their Lyberties and who will vindicate them, if ever they should be violated—but the subject is too delicate & I will say no more.”
http://www.infowars.com/the-spirit-of-liberty-is-still-alive/
THEY, THEM, THEIR.
WHO’S they, them, their?
I’ll tell you who! THEY are my ancestors! WE have been here since 1648.
And Buddy are we pissed!