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By: Tenth Amendment Center | The Ruthless Truth blog

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By: John Dickinson: The Penman of the Revolution | Tenth Amendment Center Blog

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:04:39 +0000

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By: anonymous

anonymous — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:18:53 +0000

what a beautiful read. tks.
we are so blessed to have had so many beautiful minds who helped to create so many opportunities for us and encourage us to do the same for generations to come. God bless his soul and all his heirs and relatives.

By: GaryWood

GaryWood — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:23:19 +0000

We studied John Dickinson and read this letter two weeks ago in our Tuesday night class. His pen and efforts were vital to our founding yet many have forgotten him simply because his name does not appear on the Declaration of Independence. Thanks for the reminder of his words and the application to our situation today.

By: Bob Greenslade

Bob Greenslade — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:12:09 +0000

Michael-thanks for bringing John Dickinson to life on your site. As you know, he teamed-up with Thomas Jefferson to write a document that I believe should have a place of honor one notch down from the Declaration of Independence.

On July 5, 1775, five months after both Houses of Parliament declare “the American Colonies to be in a state of actual Rebellion," representatives of the United Colonies of North America, in Congress assembled, adopt the Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms against the State of Great Britain.

The Declaration states, in part:

"We are reduced to the alternative of chusing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force. — The latter is our choice. — We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery. — Honour, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them, if we basely entail hereditary bondage upon them.

Our cause is just. Our union is perfect. Our internal resources are great, and, if necessary, foreign assistance is undoubtedly attainable. — We gratefully acknowledge, as signal instances of the Divine favour towards us, that his Providence would not permit us to be called into this severe controversy, until we were grown up to our present strength, had been previously exercised in warlike operation, and possessed of the means of defending ourselves. With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare, that, exerting the utmost energy of those powers, which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have been compelled by our enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverence, employ for the preservation of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live slaves."

The complete text can be read at—

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/arms.asp#…

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Be Happy! There is Great Happiness in Human-Made Things — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:06:33 +0000

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