To: Neocon who wrote (139296 ) 7/8/2004 12:08:26 PM From: jttmab Read Replies (1) | Respond to The smuggling was a way of evading the effects of the tax. Sons of Freedom for moving cigarettes from the south.Large landowners of every socio-economic strata tended to feel it was in their best interest to be sympathetic to the Crown. Sure, there were wealthy revolutionaries, but the wealthy generally did not care to rock any boats... Twenty four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers and large plantation owners; men of means, well educated. serendipity.li All white men who are property owners are created equal though that's what the early years of the country were. All men are created equal is a much better sound bite for the masses. Not that everyone would actually get treated equally after the revolution, but it sounded great.He [King George III] has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. It is good to serve the poor, but not so much as to encourage idleness or dependency. People tend to seek ease of life; the Indians seem to live an easy life, which young children as a rule prefer. Their wants are few and natural, and easily fulfilled. Meanwhile civilized man has "infinite Artificial [capitalizing an adjective] wants" that are harder to satisfy. home.uchicago.edu the merciless Indian Savages that we find in the Declaration of Independence. Franklin opposed the lynching of innocent Indians by the Penn. frontiermen. That would be the colonists doing the lynching, not England. There is another passage by Franklin floating around where he claims that the Indians have the best form of government in the world and they by and large live happily and peacefully.
