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@DrSanity7777777
In 1786 a Revolutionary War veteran named Daniel Shays led an armed uprising of 4,000 men, hoping to seize a Federal armory and overthrow the government. He and the other veterans leading this (mostly peaceful) protest had been stiffed much of their wages from the war, and predatory lenders and tax collectors took advantage, often seizing their modest farms and leaving them indigent.
The inability of the Federal government to quickly confront this rebellion terrified and scandalized most of the Founding Fathers and economic elites. It became a major catalyst for the creation of our current constitution, increasing Federal authority, creating a president, and empowering him with full military authority.
Thomas Jefferson saw things differently, and left us with many quotable remarks, all pertinent to circus at the Capitol.
To William S. Smith, Paris, Nov. 13, 1787
"The British ministry have so long hired their gazetteers to repeat and model into every form lies about our being in anarchy, that the world has at length believed them, the English nation has believed them, the ministers themselves have come to believe them, and what is more wonderful, we have believed them ourselves. Yet where does this anarchy exist? Where did it ever exist, except in the single instance of Massachusets? And can history produce an instance of a rebellion so honourably conducted? I say nothing of it’s motives. They were founded in ignorance, not wickedness. God forbid we should ever be 20. years without such a rebellion. The people can not be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. We have had 13 states independent 11 years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half for each state. What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure. Our Convention has been too much impressed by the insurrection of Massachusets: and in the spur of the moment they are setting up a kite to keep the hen yard in order. I hope in god this article will be rectified before the new constitution is accepted."
To James Madison, Paris, Jan. 30, 1787
"I am impatient to learn your sentiments on the late troubles in the Eastern states… I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, & as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. . . It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.."
To James Madison, Paris, Dec. 20, 1787
"The late rebellion in Massachusetts has given more alarm than I think it should have done. Calculate that one rebellion in 13 states in the course of 11 years, is but one for each state in a century & a half. No country should be so long without one. Nor will any degree of power in the hands of government prevent insurrections. France, with all its despotism, and two or three hundred thousand men always in arms has had three insurrections in the three years I have been here in every one of which greater numbers were engaged than in Massachusetts & a great deal more blood was spilt."
To Abigail Adams, Paris, Feb. 22, 1787
"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the Atmosphere."
@catmeldo
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@JudithC_thatisme
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@DrSanity7777777
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” - Frederick Douglass
@DrSanity7777777
In 1786 a Revolutionary War veteran named Daniel Shays led an armed uprising of 4,000 men, hoping to seize a Federal armory and overthrow the government. He and the other veterans leading this (mostly peaceful) protest had been stiffed much of their wages from the war, and predatory lenders and tax collectors took advantage, often seizing their modest farms and leaving them indigent.
The inability of the Federal government to quickly confront this rebellion terrified and scandalized most of the Founding Fathers and economic elites. It became a major catalyst for the creation of our current constitution, increasing Federal authority, creating a president, and empowering him with full military authority.
Thomas Jefferson saw things differently, and left us with many quotable remarks, all pertinent to circus at the Capitol.
To William S. Smith, Paris, Nov. 13, 1787
"The British ministry have so long hired their gazetteers to repeat and model into every form lies about our being in anarchy, that the world has at length believed them, the English nation has believed them, the ministers themselves have come to believe them, and what is more wonderful, we have believed them ourselves. Yet where does this anarchy exist? Where did it ever exist, except in the single instance of Massachusets? And can history produce an instance of a rebellion so honourably conducted? I say nothing of it’s motives. They were founded in ignorance, not wickedness. God forbid we should ever be 20. years without such a rebellion. The people can not be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. We have had 13 states independent 11 years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half for each state. What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure. Our Convention has been too much impressed by the insurrection of Massachusets: and in the spur of the moment they are setting up a kite to keep the hen yard in order. I hope in god this article will be rectified before the new constitution is accepted."
To James Madison, Paris, Jan. 30, 1787
"I am impatient to learn your sentiments on the late troubles in the Eastern states… I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, & as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. . . It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.."
To James Madison, Paris, Dec. 20, 1787
"The late rebellion in Massachusetts has given more alarm than I think it should have done. Calculate that one rebellion in 13 states in the course of 11 years, is but one for each state in a century & a half. No country should be so long without one. Nor will any degree of power in the hands of government prevent insurrections. France, with all its despotism, and two or three hundred thousand men always in arms has had three insurrections in the three years I have been here in every one of which greater numbers were engaged than in Massachusetts & a great deal more blood was spilt."
To Abigail Adams, Paris, Feb. 22, 1787
"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the Atmosphere."
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@garydimitris151
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