July 4, 1776 was WARTIME.
One thing historians never mention about the Declaration of Independence is that it was written in the midst of a war in a city that would soon be occupied by enemy troops.
The Declaration of Independence was not an honest statement of what Jefferson or anybody else in America believed. It was a war document written for war purposes.
To start with, the Declaration blamed all of the colonists’ problems on “The King.” Every Signer of the Declaration had been raised under English law. No intelligent colonist, and certainly no Founding Father, thought the King could have done any of those things without the support of Parliament.
Why didn’t they mention Parliament? Because the Declaration of Independence was a WAR document, not an abstract statement of truth. The colonists’ best friends and their best hope was the pro-American minority in the British Parliament. So they did not blame Parliament.
No sane human being ever believed that “all men are created equal.” So why does the Declaration say that? Because it was a WAR document. “All men are created equal” and “Nature and Nature’s God” were appeals to French liberals who supported French intervention on the side of the colonists in the WAR that was going on.
French liberals were Rousseau fans and deists, hence the reference to “Nature and Nature’s God” and the statement “all men are created equal.”
While our Founding Fathers created a free country, those French liberals led their country into the bloody disaster and tyranny of the French Revolution. Crap like “all men are created equal” and “Nature and Nature’s God” led to that disaster.
When the WAR was over and independence was won, Americans wrote an objective document for THEMSELVES. It was called the Constitution of the United States of America. The Constitution did not say a word about “all mankind.” The Constitution of the United States declares what the only purpose of the United States of America was to be.
The Constitution of the United States did not say one word about “all mankind.” The Constitution of the United States did not say one word about freeing Iraq or saving Israel or the rights of illegal aliens. In fact, the Constitution said exactly the opposite. It declared that the only people for whom the United States would exist would be:
“We the People of the United States…for OURSELVES and OUR Posterity….”
The French Revolution was a bloody disaster. The crap about all mankind on which the French Revolution was based led France to conquer Europe in the name of Equality. It had nothing to do with American thought.
But New England abolitionists thought like French liberals. In the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln substituted “all men are created equal” for the Preamble of the real Constitution. Leftists today love that “all mankind” crap. They used it to give a third of the world to Stalin and his allies after World War II. They use it today to legalize illegal aliens and fight Israel’s war in Iraq today.
This is not a quibble over words. This is a debate about the purpose of America.
#1 by Arnold Hans on 07/16/2005 - 12:52 pm
The French revolution was a great event. It abolished serfdom, and slavery in France. It gave feudally held land to the peasants, and it abolished tithes and corvee. It also invaded Germany and abolished serfdom there. These chnages were so great that even though the regime comitted oppressive acts, even Spaniards and Germans requested liberal freedoms The French revolution also freed Jews from the ghettoes, of Germany and France. It also allowed women to own property. It stopped people having to go to chucrh, It stopped restrictions on trade between France. It in 1793, was teh first country of any size, in teh history of the world to abolish slavery and teh slave trade. It abolished facist guilds, which were mini master races in towns, it abloished discrimination against Muslims in France. It abolished the chateuxs, and corrupt aristocractic regimes. It was a great event, and it saw far less deaths than world war one, teh US invasion of teh Phillipines, or teh slave trade, or teh massacres of teh hugenouts, or teh otehrs killed in french history. It was a great event, and to go on about executiosn in teh Frenmch revolution, but to never mention teh massacres comitted by George the third against Americans via the hulks, or by Britain against Napoleon’s soldiers, placed on the isle of carberra, and in Devon’s camps, or teh Irish famine, or teh US massacre of native americans, or teh Saudi massacres in invading yemen, and in creating bin laden makes nme sick.