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WalksWithBlackflies 
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Posted on: Feb. 01 2013, 3:07 pm |
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I was dong some research and came across this "article" pertaining to uses of certain words in the 1700s. I found it interesting and thought others might too:
http://www.guncite.com/gc2ndmea.html
One example that stood out to me:
In the passage that follows, do you think the U.S. government was concerned because the Creek Indians' tribal regulations were superior to those of the Wabash or was it because they represented a better trained and disciplined fighting force?
"That the strength of the Wabash Indians who were principally the object of the resolve of the 21st of July 1787, and the strength of the Creek Indians is very different. That the said Creeks are not only greatly superior in numbers but are more united, better regulated, and headed by a man whose talents appear to have fixed him in their confidence. That from the view of the object your Secretary has been able to take he conceives that the only effectual mode of acting against the said Creeks in case they should persist in their hostilities would be by making an invasion of their country with a powerful body of well regulated troops always ready to combat and able to defeat any combination of force the said Creeks could oppose and to destroy their towns and provisions."
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. - Lao Tzu
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Montecresto
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Posted on: Feb. 01 2013, 7:07 pm |
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Good post Montanalonewolf!
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Killing one person is murder, killing a 100,000 is foreign policy
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Montecresto
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Posted on: Feb. 01 2013, 7:13 pm |
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Referring to the use of drones in US skies:
John Whitehead, president of the Rutherford Institute of Charlottesville, Va., which provides legal assistance in support of civil liberties and conservative causes, warned the governor, "America is not a battlefield, and the citizens of this nation are not insurgents in need of vanquishing."
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Killing one person is murder, killing a 100,000 is foreign policy
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Posted on: Feb. 01 2013, 9:58 pm |
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(WalksWithBlackflies @ Feb. 01 2013, 3:07 pm)
QUOTE I was dong some research and came across this "article" pertaining to uses of certain words in the 1700s. I found it interesting and thought others might too: http://www.guncite.com/gc2ndmea.htmlOne example that stood out to me: In the passage that follows, do you think the U.S. government was concerned because the Creek Indians' tribal regulations were superior to those of the Wabash or was it because they represented a better trained and disciplined fighting force?
"That the strength of the Wabash Indians who were principally the object of the resolve of the 21st of July 1787, and the strength of the Creek Indians is very different. That the said Creeks are not only greatly superior in numbers but are more united, better regulated, and headed by a man whose talents appear to have fixed him in their confidence. That from the view of the object your Secretary has been able to take he conceives that the only effectual mode of acting against the said Creeks in case they should persist in their hostilities would be by making an invasion of their country with a powerful body of well regulated troops always ready to combat and able to defeat any combination of force the said Creeks could oppose and to destroy their towns and provisions."
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