The Liberty Tribune
Our blog consists of vineyard happenings, winemaking insights, event highlights,
and selected quotes from Founders!
Education
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Apr 3, 2024 at 12:00 PM
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Natural Progress of Things
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
Mar 20, 2024 at 12:00 PM
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Life + Liberty
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
Feb 14, 2024 at 12:00 PM
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Remember History
"Sad will be the day when the American people forget their traditions and their history, and no longer remember the country they love, the institutions they cherish, and the freedom they hope to preserve, were born from the throes of armed resistance to tyranny, and nursed in the rugged arms of fearless men." -- Roger Sherman
Jan 31, 2024 at 12:00 PM
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Liberty in a Featherbed
We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
Jan 24, 2024 at 12:00 PM
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Revolution is Still at Hand
We still need some Paul Revere of conscience to alert every hamlet and every village of America that revolution is still at hand.
Jan 12, 2024 at 12:00 PM
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Boston Tea Party - 250th Anniversary
From Wikipedia:
The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest on December 16, 1773, by the Sons of Liberty in Boston in colonial Massachusetts.[1] The target was the Tea Act of May 10, 1773, which allowed the British East India Company to sell tea from China in American colonies without paying taxes apart from those imposed by the Townshend Acts. The Sons of Liberty strongly opposed the taxes in the Townshend Act as a violation of their rights. In response, the Sons of Liberty, some disguised as Native Americans, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company.
The demonstrators boarded the ships and threw the chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. The British government considered the protest an act of treason and responded harshly.[2] The episode escalated into the American Revolution, becoming an iconic event of American history. Since then other political protests such as the Tea Party movement have referred to themselves as historical successors to the Boston protest of 1773.
The Tea Party was the culmination of a resistance movement throughout British America against the Tea Act, a tax passed by the British Parliament in 1773. Colonists objected to the Tea Act believing it violated their rights as Englishmen to "no taxation without representation", that is, to be taxed only by their own elected representatives and not by a parliament in which they were not represented. The well-connected East India Company also had been granted competitive advantages over colonial tea importers, who resented the move and feared additional infringement on their business.[3] Protesters had prevented the unloading of tea in three other colonies, but in Boston, embattled Royal Governor Thomas Hutchinson refused to allow the tea to be returned to Great Britain.
The Boston Tea Party was a significant event that helped accelerate and intensify colonial support for the American Revolution. Parliament responded in 1774 with the Intolerable Acts, or Coercive Acts, which, among other provisions, ended local self-government in Massachusetts and closed Boston's commerce. Colonists up and down the Thirteen Colonies in turn responded to the Intolerable Acts with additional acts of protest, and by convening the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia, which petitioned the British monarch for repeal of the acts and coordinated colonial resistance to them. The crisis escalated, leading to the Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, which marked the beginning of the American Revolutionary War.
Dec 16, 2023 at 1:00 AM
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