Report of the 1776 Commision

Just get up off the ground, that’s all I ask. Get up there with that lady that’s up on top of this Capitol dome, that lady that stands for liberty. Take a look at this country through her eyes if you really want to see something. And you won’t just see scenery. You’ll see the whole parade of what man’s carved out for himself after centuries of fighting. Fighting for something better than just jungle law, fighting so’s he can stand on his own two feet free and decent like he was created, no matter what his race, colour or creed. That’s what you’d see. There’s no place out there for graft or free or lies or compromise with human liberties. If that’s what the grownups have done with this world that was given to them then we’d better get those boys’ camps started fast and see what the kids can do. It’s not too late because this country is bigger than the Taylors or you or me or anything else. Great principles don’t get lost once they come to light. They’re right here, you just have to see them again.

Senator William Jefferson Smith, Mr. Smith Does to Washington (1939)

One of the first acts of Biden as Puppet President was to abolish the 1776 Commission set up by President Trump to respond to the lies told by the New York Times 1619 Project.  Too late!  Go here to download a copy of the report of the Commission.  It is a great piece of scholarship:

It was the Western world’s repudiation of slavery, only just beginning to build at the time of the American Revolution, which marked a dramatic sea change in moral sensibilities. The American founders were living on the cusp of this change, in a manner that straddled two worlds. George Washington owned slaves, but came to detest the practice, and wished for “a plan adopted for the abolition of it.” By the end of his life, he freed all the slaves in his family estate.

Thomas Jefferson also held slaves, and yet included in his original draft of the Declaration a strong condemnation of slavery, which was removed at the insistence of certain slaveholding delegates. Inscribed in marble at his memorial in Washington, D.C. is Jefferson’s foreboding reference to the injustice of slavery: “I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever.”

James Madison saw to it at the Constitutional Convention that, even when the Constitution compromised with slavery, it never used the word “slave” to do so. No mere semantics, he insisted that it was “wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.”

We will confront endless lies from the government over the next four years, but the truth will prevail thanks to the grace of God and our actions.