Other Brothers: Declaring Independence
(by Randy Schiff)
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LOCKE : “The state of Nature, has a Law of Nature to govern it, which obliges everyone, and reason…is that Law.” (I.6)
“The Liberty of Man, in Society, is to be under no Legislative Power, but that established by consent…”
“For, if once Compact enter between them, and make an agreement for a limited Power on the one side, and Obedience, on the other, the State of War and Slavery ceases, as long as the Compact endures.” (IV.24)
JEFFERSON : “He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.” [973]
“He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation, and tyranny […] cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation …”
“He has excited domestic insurrection among us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages…”
“They are permitting their chief magistrate to send over not only soldiers of our common blood, but Scotch and foreign mercenaries to invade and destroy us” [974]
“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” [973]
“Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British brethren.” [973]
“…Manly spirit bids us to renounce forever these unfeeling brethren. We must endeavor to forget our former love for them […] Be it so, since they will have it. We will tread it apart from them.” [974]
“He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in […] slavery […] This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce […] this assemblage of horrors […] he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us…”