Endeavour to Perservere

This will be my on going journal of thoughts concerning the economic crisis facing America. Perhaps some of this will make sense to someone someday. Right now everythings politics with the election coming up. It’s hard to believe its actually an imminient crisis. I mean all the politicians taking two days off for a holiday in the face of imminient doom and all. I wish there were more Americans and fewer politicians on Capital hill. There’s just too much political theatre. Life goes on.

The biggest problem around here are fuel supplies. gas stations are running of of gas or if they have gas the cars are lined up every which way trying to get some. Its because of hurricane Ike they say…fun how its only affecting the south/southeast and not the rest of the country. 

Got a few tomatoe plants growing and I’m getting ready to turn my sunroom into a greenhouse over the winter. This economic situation is alot like growing plants. Can’t really do much about it ‘cept wait and see and hope something good turns up.

Certainly glad we don’t have house and car payments right now.

Liberty

Only that day dawns to which we are awake ~ Thoreau

It is true that liberty is precious – so precious that it must be rationed ~ Vladimir Lenin

We can choose to life that lie or live for our liberty free and unfettererd.

Liberty is founded upon the idea of selflessness and so matchless an article as liberty can only be maintained by selflessness.

The voice of liberty speaks in the language of “Give me liberty or give me death.”

Selflessness embodies liberty and also recognizes that to the smallest degree or slightest shade less, you have slavery. Selfishness is slavery personified. Slavery being neither to harsh nor cruel a word to accept living under bondage, whether political, financial or moral.

Love is the end purpose of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” not power, wealth or temporal pleasures. Love is we seek to secure liberty for our families and ourselves, that we might have the freedom to live in peace and love.

Their are those who seek to curtail our liberty – those voted the public trust – who seek to place both ourselves and our children in financial bondage, to financial institutions who seek the last pound of flesh from any who owe them even the least coin. To bail out the same institutions which fraudulently gave loans to those who couldn’t hope to repay them, then put their families out on the street when they couldn’t repay.

Are our millionaire government officials more concerned about helping the banks (and saving their own portfolios in the process) or truly helping “main street”?

I don’t advocate violence. I advocate continually putting a little reserve aside against a rainy day; growing gardens and being self-sufficient in so far as you are able; living within your means and paying as you go; continuing your education and training to improve your circumstances in life and to have something to fall back on if need be. 

If you do feel the need for violence – take it out on your credit cards. Cut them up, it can only hurt the banks.

And finally, vote. I favor or support neither the Democratic or Republican parties. They act as monopolies on power and have brought us to grief again, and again, and yet again today…but whoever you favor cast your vote for them, or whoever your against, vote to cast them out of office.

Stand up for your liberty. 
 

 

 

The Emancipation Proclamation

The Emancipation Proclamation
January 1, 1863

A Transcription

By the President of the United States of America:

A Proclamation.

Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, to wit:

“That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom.

“That the Executive will, on the first day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people thereof, respectively, shall then be in rebellion against the United States; and the fact that any State, or the people thereof, shall on that day be, in good faith, represented in the Congress of the United States by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such State shall have participated, shall, in the absence of strong countervailing testimony, be deemed conclusive evidence that such State, and the people thereof, are not then in rebellion against the United States.”

Now, therefore I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief, of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days, from the day first above mentioned, order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, to wit:

Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, (except the Parishes of St. Bernard, Plaquemines, Jefferson, St. John, St. Charles, St. James Ascension, Assumption, Terrebonne, Lafourche, St. Mary, St. Martin, and Orleans, including the City of New Orleans) Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia, (except the forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Ann, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth[)], and which excepted parts, are for the present, left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued.

And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.

And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defence; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages.

And I further declare and make known, that such persons of suitable condition, will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service.

And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the City of Washington, this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the eighty-seventh.

By the President: ABRAHAM LINCOLN
WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State.