Re: MDDM Liberty

on 28/6/02 5:53 AM, Doug Millison at [email protected] wrote:

> Ah, yes, those happy darkies dancing and singing and jes' a-carryin' on to
> beat the band back in those days of that little human rights technicality,
> slavery, so attractive as practiced by the Father of Our Country, indeed.
>
>
> "Unfortunately, young people," recalls the Revd, "the word *Liberty*, so
> unreflectively  sacred to us today, was taken in those Times to encompass
> even the darkest of Men's rights [...] This being, indeed and alas, one of
> the Liberties our late War was fought to secure." (M&D, 307)
> 

Let's have the whole passage, shall we:

    "Unfortunately, young people," recalls the Rev.d, "the word *Liberty*,
    so unreflectively sacred to us today, was taken in those Times to
    encompass even the darkest of Men's rights,-- to injure whomever we
    might wish,-- unto extermination, were it possible,-- Free of Royal
    advice or Proclamation Lines and such. This being, indeed and alas, one
    of the Liberties our late War was fought to secure." (307.15)

Wicks's comments here, and the narrative and conversation on either side of
them, relate to the massacre of Native Americans, not to slavery.

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