It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.
You will think me transported with Enthusiasm but I am not. — I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. — Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will tryumph in that Days Transaction, even altho We should rue it, which I trust in God We shall not.
Like what President Trump just did… love to hear what Adams would say to Bernie, Harris, Biden…and the rest of the America-haters who couldn’t find the Constitution with both hands and a flashlight.
I told him to write that.
Camperfixer: He would have nothing to say to them. He would clop them on their noggins with his weighted cane handle.
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” – John Adams
I admired John Adams since high school history (yes, back when history was taught in the schools!). I came to appreciate him even more after I read the book, “John Adams”, by David McCullough. Wonderful read.
You can get a good idea of just what a monumental task it was to separate from the control of an oppressive England by comparing what we’re experiencing today. Very different in many ways but the inertia and reluctance to push ahead through the strong headwinds is comparable.
It’s well worth remembering and celebrating the historical achievement.
The constitution was written for a moral people. Not people like @richtaylor.
John Adams is a old dead white dude ………….
“Shews”? Ed Sullivan got it right?