America was the first nation to acknowledge God as its
creator. Despite efforts to remove God from our national
psyche, our Constitution
still proudly proclaims that all men are created
equal. The operative phrase here is the acknowledgement
that all men are created. That requires a creator,
a being explicitly acknowledged in the document that governs
our nation.
Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then
say,
'What should be the reward of such sacrifices?' Bid us and our
posterity bow the knee, supplicate the friendship, and plough,
and
sow, and reap, to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose
on us
the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face
of the
earth? If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility
of
servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us
in peace.
We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands
which
feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity
forget that ye were our countrymen!"
