Power to Yea-allwe t-he People

The Sons of Liberty Constitution

As in our present distressed condition, while under the greatest apprehensions of yet threatening Slavery, our surest refuges seem the mercies of God, and our own fixed and unanimous resolution to persevere to the last in the vindication of our dear bought Rights and Privileges, the very Essentials of our peerless Constitution, These, in the awful presence of the Righteous Jehovah, serve to bind us, the Subscribes and public Assentors hereto in the Articles following:***

“our surest refuges seem the mercies of God,”

                                                                           Constitution of the Son’s of Liberty

And when the work-man saw that the tree w-as good - for food,

and that it w-as pleasant to the eyes,

and a tree to be desired to make one like-wise,

she took of the fruit there-of,

and did eat,

and gave also unto her – husband with her;

and he did eat.

And to Seth,

to him also there was born a son;

and he called - his name Enos:  - - -then - began men - to call upon the name of the Lord.

And Noah began to be an hu-sb-and-man,

For thy Maker is thine husband; the Lord of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Is-ra-el;

The God of the whole earth – ISamuelyeaon-Amallah - shall he be called.

They know not, neither will - they - understand; they walk on in darkness: . . .

And the earth was without form,

. . . all the foundations of the earth are out of course.

The Declaration of Independents of All the Earth

When in the Course of hu-man events,

And the Lord said,

Behold,

the people is one,

it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with an-other, . . .

And Abel,

he also brought of the firstlings of his flock - and of the fat thereof.

And t-he- Lord had respect un-to Ab--el - and to - his offering: . . .

And God made the firmament, -- and divided the --waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: . . .

And the Lord said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he said, A rod.

And he said, Cast it on the ground.

And he cast it on the ground,

and it became a serpent;  - - and Moses fled from before it.

And the Lord said un-to Moses,

Put forth thine hand,

and take it by the tail.

And he put forth his hand,

and caught it,

and it - - became a rod in his hand: and it w-as so.

That they may believe that the Lord God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee.

. . . But un-to Cain - and to - his offering - he - had not respect.

And Cain w-as very wroth,

and his countenance fell.

And said unto them, I see your father's countenance,

that it is not toward me as before;

 but the God of my father hath been with me.

And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.

And your father hath deceived me,

and changed my wages ten times;

but God suffered him not to hurt me.

and to assume among the powers of the earth,

And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.

And he said,

I heard thy voice in the garden,

and I was afraid,

because I was naked;

and I hid myself.

And I will put enmity between thee and the work-man,

and between thy seed and her seed;

it shall bruise thy head,

and thou shalt bruise his heel.

Is not the whole land before thee?

separate thyself,

I pray thee,

from me:

if thou wilt take the left hand,

then I will go to the right;

or if thou depart to the right hand,

then I will go to the left.

to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with an-other,

And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men,

and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the - Laws of - Nature - and of - Nature's God entitle them,

And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it w-as so.

And God made the b-east of the earth after his kind,

and cattle after their kind,

and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:

a decent respect to the opinions of man-kind requires that they should declare the causes which - impel them - to the separation.

And the Work-man said unto the serpent,

We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:

And they said, Go to, let us build - us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven;

and let us make us a name,

lest -we - be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

We hold these truths to be self-evident,

And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the Lord.

that all men are created equal,

These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth - when they were created, - in the day that the Lord God made the earth - and the heavens,

that they are endowed by their Creator with certain

unalienable

 adj. Not to be separated, given away, or taken away; inalienable: "All of them ... claim unalienable dignity as individuals" (Garrison Keillor).

unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among-st the trees of the garden.

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men,

These are the generations of Noah:

Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations,

and Noah walked with God.

deriving their just powers - from the consent of the governed,

And the earth was with-out form,

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends,

And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low:

and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

          And the idols he shall utterly abolish.

it is the Right of the People - to alter - or - to abolish it,

And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.

His foundation is in the holy mountains.

Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.

Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.

and to institute new Government, laying its foundation - on such principles and organizing its powers in such form,

as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?

And God said, Sarah thy wife - shall bear thee - a son indeed;

and thou shalt call his name Isaac:

and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant,

and with his seed - after him.

And he said unto him,

What is thy name?

And he said, Isaac.

And he said,

Thy name shall be called no more Isaac,

but BaRACk:

for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men,

and hast prevailed.

Prudence, - indeed, - will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes;

For he breaketh me with a tempest,

and multiplieth my wounds - without cause.

He will not suffer me to take my breath,

but filleth me with bitterness.

and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that man-kind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, - pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism,

And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

And God created great whales,

and every living creature that moveth,

which the waters brought forth abundantly,

after their kind,

and every winged fowl after his kind:

and God saw that it w-as good.

it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government,

And she again bare his brother

Abel.

And Abel w-as a keeper of sheep,

but Cain w-as a tiller of the ground.

and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies;

and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.

I have seen servants up-on horses,

and princes walking - as - servants upon the earth.

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one,

and love the other;

or else he will hold to the one,

and despise the other.

Ye can-not serve God - and mammon.

The history of Mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations,

all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over We the people.

SamuelYea

http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/solconst.html ***

Yea God III

The bell of liberty that never rang, once.

Events leading up to the revolutionary war

The French & Indian War

1756-1763

(The Seven Years War)

The French and Indian War, the final Colonial War, 1689-1763, was given the name, the seven year war, a conflagration that involved Austria, England, France, Great Britain, Prussia, and Sweden. The English ultimately won the war but at a financial cost so staggering the resulting debt nearly destroyed the English government.

With the victory the English retained its mantle of Empire and self proclaimed, greatest nation and military power on the earth. They held on to their colonial holdings but the long campaign and liabilities assumed, temped the chest thumping victory dance, down to near zero. It was more like a collective sigh of relief.

The war left the Empire in complete shambles and England had no way of recouping the loses from the wreckage so with vigor they turned their full attentions to the only colonial holdings they held not affected by the French Indian war, the American colonies. Their objective was to use the monies exacted from the Americas and invest it back into the East India Company and get it back in the black and profitable as quickly as possible. Simple enough.

But enough is enough

In 1765 a group Englishmen land/slave owners, living in the colonies, angry over the exorbitant taxes extracted from them, all without representation, formed a alliance and called for revolution.

King George III, hearing reports of a burgeoning  rebellion responded to the grievances of the Son’s, in the same manner George III addressed all such disputes, by education. The lessons would be given by British troops in Boston on the morning of March 5^th 1770.

Lesson number one, England was still a formidable military power to reckon with and lesson two, they, the colonist, were still and would always remain, British subjects, under British law.

The schooling, thereafter called the Boston Massacre as intended, a horrific display of England military power and insurmountable cruelty.  Customarily the slaughter would have continued forward until the last vestiges of any opposition were all dead, but that time it was different.

England had always considered the colonies to be an extension of England’s mainland itself and because, until now, the colonies posed no military threat the Crown found no need to spend the money to ensconce a heavy military presence there to maintain stability and give periodic lessons.

But after Boston. England proceeded with haste to put such a force in place thereby assuring any  civil disobedience ever happened again. England’s lack of troops and near bankrupt coffers didn’t allow England to sustained the butchery to its desired conclusion.

Subsequently the uprising and protest continued and England’s inability to quickly respond with unremitting brute force the protest continued. And each time the military left its job undone it became more costly and longer to eradicate the next time.

But the massacres left no doubt in the minds of the land/slave owners and the people, that Boston was just the opening salvo.

If I can’t have it then I will have it all!

With the French and Indian War winding down, the most feared troops on the planet, the British real army, many of whom mercenaries who salaries derived strictly from the booty they looted, pillage, plundered while dispatching with savage abandonment the most indescribable carnage imagined, their next destination would assuredly be the American colonies.

The people watched in dread, the ever increasing presence of British troops marching across their farm lands, taking food from their store houses to feed their troops without paying for it and at the first sign of any form of protest, ruthlessly  cut through the protestors like a warm knife through soft butter.

But for most of the people there was a unsatisfying but safe way out. Long live the King!

The people hated George III as much as the l/s owners  but they hated the l/s owners as much as they did George III and reconciled themselves to the sobering conclusion, to fight for the l/s owners and win would leave the l/s owner, the law of the land.

For many  living under the rule of the l/s-owners, was considered to be a fate far worst than George III and likened it to, going from the frying pan, straight into the fire.

All alone and their backs against the wall

With no trained army to fight against the formidable Red Coats the l/s-owners  relied  on sympathetic supporter or private armies they paid to defend their estates. All the while the insurrection was quickly becoming exclusively, the rebellion of the l/s-owners and their paid army was iffy at best.

The Protestants

Descendants of Plymouth Rock

In 1770’s Boston of the top 1% of the population, 44% owned all the city's wealth. This disparity of affluence was the norm throughout the entire the thirteen colonies.

The bloody massacre of March 5th 1770 confirmed for the Son's that they were still very much under British law despite distance and there was more than enough money in England’s near empty war chest to obliterate them, many, many times over.

They agreed, things were going to get worst so with little recourse they boldly declared themselves to be, no longer British subjects or even Englishmen nor even colonists, they were now, ‘Sons of Liberty’. and called to all men, who were white who longed to be free, to join them in the fight. A call the people found laughable since most of the l/s owners were way past fighting anything but a mild cold.

And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

And the Son's, set about to the task of   forging a new society built on a foundation of ‘multi culture ethnics’ comprised of, English, Dutch, German, Scots-Irish and other Europeans.

Also by contact with Native Americans and African slaves.

The constitution submitted by the landowners came pouring in but the would be constitutions all essentially proposed or said the same exact things, namely.

Example

Article 1: Everything will stay faithfully the same, with the exception, the rich Protestant landowners will govern, as they see fit in the stead of England’s King Georage III.

Article 2: The landowners shall keep all their land, their power, their wealth, their slaves.

Article 3: The people will have the right to fight and die for their country thus fulfilling God’s divine work to establish His will on earth. 

Or something to that effect.

No time left

How’s this? All for one and one for all?

Doesn’t address the realities.

Then how about, We all hang together or we all hang separately? 

The Son's, by now were exclusively identified as the genesis for the revolt, realizing it was only a matter of time before the kings forces gained a decisive footing, track each and everyone of  the Son’s down, joyfully confiscate all of their property, hang each and everyone of the rebels their families, friends and anybody else the King remotely thought to be sympathetic to their cause.

Reconciled that writing  an inspirational constitution wasn’t as easy as the Son’s had imagined they struggled with questions of, who would govern the new ‘kingdom’? Where will the capitol be placed? and so on, until the whole quest just melted into a pool of nondescript wrangling among the Son’s, threatening to tear the fragile alliance asunder.

All the while the people remained unmoved by any of their propagandistic proposals, but they continued to hope. The people continued to listen to speeches and asked questions at town hall meetings, held in secret, read the myriad of treatise, underground posters, news letters, and papers distributed published and paid for by the landowners whose rhetoric grew more desperate and  ridiculous with each passing day.

But a unifying constitution that would entice, compel the people to the cause to their struggle that would ultimately put the Son’s in the preeminent seat of authority and law, proved to be elusive.

In a tight squeeze the Son’s faced the fact their constitutional renderings failed to galvanize the people and accept the dreaded realities that ultimately the constitution itself had to come from the people themselves concluding, if the peoples composed the constitution then in turn, it would be the peoples government and law and not the Son’s.

The descendants of Jamestown the law in southern states had already composed a declaration of independence, they were going  to deliver to the British King, in their good time. However the ill timed, ill conceived, blundererous  stupidity  of the northern protestants, the Son’s pushed the timetable up considerable.

North goes south to the Big house 

The House of Burgesses ***

In April, 1619, Governor George Yeardley arrived in Virginia from England and announced that the Virginia Company had voted to abolish martial law and create a legislative assembly.

It became the House of Burgesses  the first legislative assembly in the American colonies.

The first assembly met on July 30, 1619, in the church at Jamestown. Present were Governor Yeardley, Council, and 22 burgesses representing 11 plantations (or settlements) Burgesses were elected representatives. Only white men who owned a specific amount of property were eligible to vote for Burgesses.

On 12 March 1773 the House of Burgesses resolved to establish a Committee of Intercolonial Correspondence. Thomas Jefferson, Richard Henry Lee, Patrick Henry, and several other Virginians held a secret meeting at the Raleigh Tavern in Williamsburg.

They discussed how to organize public opinion against the British, and they realized that they needed a better way to share information with the other colonies.

They began to form a plan of action, starting with a series of resolutions calling for the restoration of colonial rights and liberties.

The House of Burgesses passed the resolutions unanimously, including one that established an eleven-man standing committee to keep tabs on Parliament. One year later, delegates gathered in Philadelphia for the First Continental Congress. ***

***http://www.ushistory.org/us/2f.asp

ISamuelyea

Just Desire

Raahian

Up Is

And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph's house; for he was yet there: and they fell before him on the ground.

And Joseph said unto them, What deed is this that ye have done? wot ye not that such a man as I can certainly divine?

  And Judah said, What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants: behold, we are my lord's servants, both we, and he also with whom the cup is found.

And he said, God forbid that I should do so: but the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant; and as for you, get you up in peace unto your father.

ISamuelyeaon-Am allah

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson offers his library to Congress after the British burn the Capitol in 1814

Throughout his life, books were vital to Thomas Jefferson's education and well-being. When his family home Shadwell burned in 1770 Jefferson most lamented the loss of his books.

In the midst of the American Revolution and while United States minister to France in the 1780s, Jefferson acquired thousands of books for his library at Monticello.

Jefferson's library went through several stages, but it was always critically important to him. Books provided the little traveled Jefferson with a broader knowledge of the contemporary and ancient worlds than most contemporaries of broader personal experience.

By 1814 when the British burned the nation's Capitol and the Library of Congress, Jefferson had acquired the largest personal collection of books in the United States.

On learning of the burning of the Capitol and the loss of the 3,000-volume Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson wrote to his friend, newspaper publisher, Samuel H. Smith (1772-1845) asking him to offer Congress his personal library of between "9 and 10,000 volumes" as a replacement.

Jefferson promised to accept any price set by Congress, commenting that "I do not know that it contains any branch of science which Congress would wish to exclude from this collection . . . there is in fact no subject to which a member of Congress may not have occasion to refer." Records indicate the total of volumes received by the Library of Congress was 6,487. This more than doubled the holdings that were lost in the fire of 1814

the wisdom of purchasing Jefferson's library as a replacement for the nearly destroyed contents of the Library of Congress. Some congressmen were particularly concerned that there were large numbers of books in foreign languages and about subjects not believed germane for the use of Congress.

A second fire on Christmas Eve of 1851, destroyed nearly two thirds of the 6,487 volumes Congress had purchased from Jefferson.*

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/jefferson/jefflib.html*

ISamuel