“God save liberty and my country forever!”
a quote from William Jasper according to
Mason Locke Weems.
William Jasper (1750-1775)
Tears
In the mean time however let me add, These are not the vapors of a melancholy mind,
nor the effusions of envy, disappointed ambition, nor of a spirit of opposition to
government: but the emanations of a heart that burns, for its country’s welfare.No
one of any feeling, born and educated in this once happy country, can consider the
numerous distresses, the gross indignities, the barbarous ignorance, the haughty
usurpations, that we have reason to fear for meditating for ourselves,
our children, our neighbors, in short for all our country men and all their posterity,
without the utmost agonies of heart, and many tears.
Humphrey Ploughjogger (John Adams)
Eric Metaxas Revolution The Birth of the Greatest Nation of the History of the World Skyhorse Publishing Inc., 2026 P.57
