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Monday 4 July 2016

Which Pledge?

To explain: I used the flag image at https://img0.etsystatic.com/009/0/6965197/il_fullxfull.436152288_p051.jpg and imposed over it the lines of the Pledge of Allegiance by Rev Bellamy from http://rbscp.lib.rochester.edu/1779: "I pledge allegiance to my Flag and for the Republic for which is stands - one Nation indivisible - with Liberty and Justice for all." Bellamy was a socialist and hated the divisions of the Civil War." (EDIT: That is Bellamy's handwriting.)



"What, to the Slave, is your Fourth of July?"


"The United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion."

* "Wall of separation between Church & State."

* "But this opens with a vast accession of strength from their younger recruits, who, having nothing in them the ... principles of ’76, now look to a ... government of an aristocracy, founded on banking institutions, and moneyed incorporations... This will be to them a next best blessing to the monarchy of their first aim, and perhaps the surest stepping-stone to it."

* "I hope we shall ... crush in it’s (sic) birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations;which dare ... to challenge our government"
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