On July 2,1776, and after riding 80 miles through a thunderstorm, Caesar Rodney of Delaware arrived at the doorstep of Independence Hall in Philadelphia and broke a tie between his fellow delegates, George Read and Thomas McKean, thus bringing Delaware into the camp of breaking with England. You see, many don’t know that the resolution affirming “independency” was voted on, on the 2nd, and the Declaration adopted on the 4th. With Rodney’s “midnight ride”, the absence of dissenters Dickinson and Morris allowing for Ben Franklin to rearrange Pennsylvania’s vote in the affirmative, and the abstention of New York, the separation from Great Britain became a reality.
As I reflect on the rich and great history of these United States this evening, I think of my beautiful new granddaughter and grand niece. Theirs is a precarious time to be sure. The forces of evil and anti-American rhetoric are all around us. Modern academia has made great strides in revisionism. The indoctrination of an entire generation of young minds, blinded to the truth and context of the greatest arrangement for mankind under God, has been their marxist priority.
It’s difficult to be hopeful when the level of self-induced ignorance as I like to call it, is so alarmingly high. Moreover, elected officials in both houses of Congress and in the White House, are aiding and abetting this ignorance for the sake of power and at the expense of our posterity. Gone are the days of Reagan and O’Neill, when despite their political differences, there was enough patriotism and shared love of country between them to make things work in Washington for “We the People”. Now there is only vitriol and hate.
So what is left when these “times that try men’s souls” are upon us? At this point, I do the only thing I know is left when mankind fails in such ill-thought and reckless ways . I pray. I pray for peace in my son’s day, and I pray for his daughter, that she might live in my father’s country. I pray that God will come into the hearts and minds of our politicians, that they might think through their oaths and come back to the truth of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”. I pray that our young people wake up and see through all of the lies and nonsense being thrown at them every day in their schools, on social media, and by the disingenuous and partisan press. Because in the end, this great experiment of true representative government, where liberty and freedom are foremost in the minds of the people, and those they send to the halls of government, hangs in the balance.
May God bless this Republic, on the 2nd, the 4th and every day.
More to come on the 4th!
