Feb 3, 2020, 8:17 PM
by Skye Steward and Thomas Jefferson
Imperialists hate secession. Thomas Jefferson recommended an uprising evert twenty years ?:
—“What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? What country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon & pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. It is it’s natural manure.” —-Letter to William Stephens Smith. Paris Nov. 13. 1787