ON THE FOURTH OF JULY

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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR August 23, 2020 at 9:20 pm

Paul Plante says:

So, we continue to ponder the words of Democrat Kathy Sheehan, Democrat mayor of the sanctuary city of Albany, New York in the Albany, New York Times Union story “As statues tumble, relatives of Gen. Philip Schuyler ask for pause” by Brendan J. Lyons on July 5, 2020 that “To me, stating that Black Lives Matter is something that we have to say out loud because of our history,” and “I think it’s very important that we recognize that 400 years of white supremacy have consequences” and “We have to speak to those consequences and own it in order for us to engage in this civic discourse that we need to continue to engage in to ensure that we are creating a more perfect union” in the light of this real American history above here, we have to ask ourselves this essential question, to wit: is this woman insane?

How does the history of little Peter Vrooman having his throat slit by a Tory, a king lover, who then scalped him during the violence of the American Revolution on the New York frontier, have anything at all to do with BLACK LIVES MATTER, a Marxist group that wants to do away with our stable, productive, law-abiding nuclear families in this country?

When Democrat Kathy Sheehan of the sanctuary city of Albany, New York tells us American citizens “To me, stating that Black Lives Matter is something that we have to say out loud because of our history,” we are back to the question of what history is she talking about?

Is she talking about what happened in New Dorlach to the west of Albany, during the violence of the American Revolution?

With respect to that history, which comes to us from “The History of Schoharie County: And Border Wars of New York; Containing Also a Sketch of the Causes which Led to the American Revolution” written in 1845 by Jeptha Root Simms, when the war of the Revolution commenced, three brothers, William, John, and Philip Crysler, who lived in New Dorlach; with their brother Adam, who lived in Schoharie, took up arms with the foes of their country, and went to Canada in 1777.

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New Dorlach, some 46 miles to the west of Albany City Hall where Democrat Kathy Sheehan reigns supreme, is the present town of Sharon.

It was called “New Dorlach” from a location in Germany known to the early settlers while still in Otsego County.

Getting back to the story:

As it began to be doubted by many of the tories in 1780, whether Britain could subdue the states, Philip, whose family still lived in New Dorlach, and who desired to remove it to Canada, had a party assigned him near Harpersfield to aid in its removal.

It is supposed, they arrived near the settlement a day or two before the army reached Schoharie; and were concealed until Seth’s Henry and possibly some others met them in an appointed place, and communicated intelligence of the proceedings in Schoharie, that the movement of Crysler’s destructives should not precede the general irruption.

However that may be, it is certain Seth’s Henry, who was at the burning of Schoharie, was on the following day also of the hostile party in New Dorlach.

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When Democrat Kathy Sheehan of Albany says, “To me, stating that Black Lives Matter is something that we have to say out loud because of our history,” is this the history she is referring to, or is she referring to something else?

Or doesn’t she even have a clue as to what she is on about, simply mouthing those words to the media off of a cue card handed to her by her BLACK LIVES MATTER controllers?

And what about her saying “I think it’s very important that we recognize that 400 years of white supremacy have consequences?”

Where is she getting the “white supremacy” from in the light of what follows, to wit:

The enemy, consisting of eighteen Indians and three tories, made their appearance just after noon at the dwelling of Michael Merckley, where Hiram Sexton now resides.

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The fact of that matter is that up until the time of the American Revolution, which was to spell the end of the Iroquois Confederacy as it had existed for centuries prior to that time, who had the supremacy in New York state if not elsewhere were the Red Men, the Native Americans, which takes us back to the story, as follows:

Merckley was at this time a widower.

His family consisted of three daughters, three sons, and a lad named Fox.

The daughters were all young women; one was married to Christopher Merckley, and lived in Rhinebeck, a small settlement a few miles from New Dorlach — the other two were at home.

The oldest son had gone to Canada three years before, the second was then at Schoharie, and the youngest, a lad about thirteen years old, and Fox, a boy near his age, were also at home.

Frederick, a brother of Michael Merckley, then resided less than a mile east of the latter.

He had an only daughter named Catharine, who by repute was the fairest young lady in the Schoharie settlements.

He also had several sons.

Christian, (from whom some of these particulars were obtained) about seventeen years old, who was then at home; Martin, a younger brother, who had been sent to his uncle Martin’s about noon of that day to borrow a currier’s knife, and possibly one or two others.

On arriving at Merckley’s, the enemy captured his two daughters, the two boys, and their cousin Martin who chanced still to be there.

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Which takes us back for a moment to this colloquy between Hawk Newsome, chairman of Black Lives Matter of Greater New York and FOX TV host by Martha MacCallum on ‘The Story,” to wit:

Greater New York Black Lives Matter president Hawk Newsome joined “The Story” Wednesday to discuss the direction of the movement in the wake of George Floyd’s death in police custody and the subsequent demonstrations across the country, many of which have sparked destruction and violence.

“You … have said that violence is sometimes necessary in these situations,” host Martha MacCallum told Newsome.

“What exactly is it that you hope to achieve through violence?”

“Wow, it’s interesting that you would pose that question like that,” Newsome responded, “because this country is built upon violence.”

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And there he is dead wrong, because this country couldn’t be “built” until the violence being inflicted on it by the agents of the tyrant king in England had finally been brought to an end, which takes us back to the violence, as follows:

About three-fourths of a mile west of Michael Merckley, then resided Bastian France, where his son Henry now resides, a little distance from the road, which ran much as it does at the present day.

As the country was new, however, it was shaded more by trees, and not bounded by fences as at present.

Mr. France had eight children.

His two oldest sons, young men, had gone to Schoharie on the 17th , to learn how matters stood in that valley, and were in the Lower fort when the enemy passed it.

Christopher, the oldest of those brothers, (who was the first white child born in the town of Seward) and Miss Catharine Merckley, had plighted hymenial vows, and were to have been married two weeks from the day of her death.

Four other sons were at home – John, fourteen years old, Henry, thirteen, and two younger: and two daughters — Betsey, a young lady of seventeen, and a little girl perhaps ten years of age.

At the road, near the residence of France, resided Henry Haines, a tory.

West creek, a tributary of Cobelskill, passed near his house, and on this he had erected a small grist-mill — the first erected in the town of Seward.

Philip Hoffman, an old gentleman, lived not far from Haines, where Klock now resides.

Mr. Merckley, at whose house the Indians first appeared, had been to visit his married daughter at Rhinebeck settlement, as had also Catharine Merckley and Betsey France, all on horseback.

Mr. Merckley returned home but a little in advance of the girls, and approaching his house he discovered the Indians about the door, but conscious of his kind feelings towards them, and zeal in the royal cause, while in the act of dismounting from his horse with perfect unconcern, he was shot down, killed, and scalped.

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There is some history for Kathy Sheehan to think about when she talks to us of “I think it’s very important that we recognize that 400 years of white supremacy have consequences” and “We have to speak to those consequences and own it in order for us to engage in this civic discourse that we need to continue to engage in to ensure that we are creating a more perfect union.”

As to some violence for Hawk Newsome of BLACK LIVES MATTER, we have as follows:

It was at his house, it will be remembered, the party were harbored who captured his neighbor, William Hynds, and family, the preceding July.

When the girls approached his mill, Haines came out, and addressing Catharine, enquired, “What is the news?”

The reply was, “Betsey will tell you; I am in a great hurry to get home.”

Miss France had reined up just above the mill, to cross the creek, between the road and her father’s dwelling, as her beautiful companion rode forward, evidently excited from some cause, to meet her impending fate.

Possibly she had heard the gun fired at her uncle, and anticipated danger.

She had but little more than a mile to go after parting with her young friend.

The road, by a bend from Haines’ mill, swept along the verge of a rise of ground on the north side of West creek, leaving the flats southwest of the road.

The ground is elevated in front of the Merckley place, and just beyond it the road turns off, nearly east, towards Hyndsville.

Miss Merckley was riding a noble gray horse, and as she drew near her uncle’s dwelling she saw the Indians and tories about the door, several of whom called on her to stop; but her eye, no doubt, caught a view of the mangled remains of her uncle, and instead of reining, she urged her horse up the acclivity at a quick gallop.

At the instant she was opposite to him, Seth’s Henry leveled his rifle and fired at her, and as she did not immediately fall, he snatched a rifle from the hands of another Indian and fired again.

The horse, as though conscious of danger, and the value of his burden, increased his speed, but the fatal messenger had done its errand — the lovely victim pitched forward and fell to the earth, writhing in the agonies of death.

She was shot through the body evidently by the first bullet, as it had passed in at the right side.

She survived but a few minutes, and expired clasping her hands firmly upon the wound.

The tragic death of this young lady, so justly celebrated for her personal charms, was witnessed from the house by her brother and cousins.

Her murderer, as he tore off her bleeding scalp, struck with the beauty and regularity of her features, remarked — “ She was too handsome a pale face to kill, and had I known the squaw had such long black hair, I would not have shot her.”

The horse ran home, after losing his rider, and the bloody saddle shadowed forth the tidings her friends might expect to hear, of their dear relative’s fate.

The family instantly fled, and secreted themselves in the woods, where they remained until the following day.

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So, when Democrat Kathy Sheehan tells us “I think it’s very important that we recognize that 400 years of white supremacy have consequences” and “We have to speak to those consequences and own it in order for us to engage in this civic discourse that we need to continue to engage in to ensure that we are creating a more perfect union,” do any of us have a clue as to what she could possibly be talking about?

Stay tuned, for the story of New Dorlach is far from over!

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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR August 24, 2020 at 10:38 pm

Paul Plante says:

As I recount this history in here of the violence associated with the civil war that was the American Revolution in what became the state of New York in the light of Democrat Kathy Sheehan, the mayor of the sanctuary city of Albany, New York, the state’s capital, telling us “I think it’s very important that we recognize that 400 years of white supremacy have consequences” and “We have to speak to those consequences and own it in order for us to engage in this civic discourse that we need to continue to engage in to ensure that we are creating a more perfect union,” it occurs to me that that is exactly what we are doing in here – recognizing that 400 years of Red supremacy by the Native Americans in this state have had serious consequences for them, and the nation, as well, while speaking to those consequences as I am doing in here, recounting the history of what transpired in New Dorlach in 1780, and owning it, as opposed to hiding it and trying to pretend for the sake of political correctness that it never happened, in order for us to engage in this civic discourse that we need to continue to engage in to ensure that we are creating a more perfect union, which takes us back to that history, as follows:

Bastian France, who was then advanced in life, and quite infirm, was in his chamber making shoes.

Hearing the firing at Merckley’s, he came down and told his family (his wife was then visiting at the house of Haines near by) he felt alarmed and taking his gun, said he would go through the woods south of his house and learn the cause of disturbance.

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As an aside, one can see from this where our Second Amendment right to bear arms for our defense derives from.

Getting back to the story:

He had not gone half way to Merckley’s, when he discovered several Indians proceeding directly to his own dwelling.

Knowing he could not reach it before they did, he resolved to proceed on foot, by a circuitous route, to the lower Schoharie fort for assistance, distant eighteen or twenty miles, and return as soon as possible.

He arrived there late in the evening, greatly fatigued, and found that all the troops which could be spared were preparing to follow the enemy to the Mohawk.

It was late the following day when he again arrived at his own dwelling.

Two Indians reached the residence of France in advance of their fellows, at which time the children were standing on the stoop looking for the cause of alarm.

As they approached the house, a large watchdog ran out and attacked them, which one halted to shoot.

The other approached the children and led out John and Henry, the two oldest boys at home, towards a pile of wood to be killed.

As the Indian who had shot the dog came up, John was handed over to him by his captor to be murdered for the British value of his scalp.

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One has to wonder if Kathy Sheehan, the Democrat mayor of Albany, New York, is aware of the fact that the British during the American Revolution were paying hard money for the scalps of American children.

And one has to wonder if this Hawk Newsome of BLACK LIVES MATTER realizes the hornet’s nest he is stirring up when he starts to tell older Americans like myself that BLACK LIVES MATTER is going to burn down our system and engage in acts of violence against us until they get “Black sovereignty,” whatever that in the end is to mean.

Getting back to the story, we have:

The Indian aimed a blow with his tomahawk at his head, which the latter warded off with his arm.

As the second blow which brought him to the ground was raised, Henry saw the other children running off, and followed them.

Seeing his captor start in pursuit, lest he should be shot down, he sprang round a corner of the house and stood still.

The Indian turned the corner and took him, with the other children, back to the stoop.

Without waiting to scalp the victim, the Indian who had felled John, left him and ran across the creek to the house of Hoffman, but the latter with his wife, having heard the gun which was fired at France’s dog, took seasonable alarm, fled into the woods and escaped.

As the children returned to the door with their captor, some half a dozen more of the enemy arrived; and proceeding to the cellar, helped themselves to several pies, and such other food as it contained, which they took up stairs, placed on a table in the centre of a room and greedily devoured.

Mrs. France hearing the noise, hastened home to protect her children or share their fate, just as the Indians were surrounding the table.

When Henry was taken back, he went to his wounded brother, who could still sit up, and attempted to raise him on his feet; but he was unable to stand.

Henry then told him to crawl under the oven where the dog usually had slept, but the hatchet had done its bidding, and he was too weak.

When his mother arrived at the house and beheld the situation of her dying son, who was then past speech, her maternal sympathy was aroused.

Her little daughter, crying, clung to her knees and besought her to save John from the cruel Indians; and she in tears entreated them to carry him into the house, or spare him from further injury.

This they refused to do, but promised not to harm her other children.

While his captor was eating, Henry was compelled to stand near him, by whom he was closely eyed.

Twice he walked to the door, and on turning round, observed the stealthy eye of the red man fixed upon him and he walked back; he thus lulled the suspicion of his keeper, and the third time he reached the door, perceiving he was not watched, he sprang out of the house, ran round it and fled towards the woods.

When about twenty rods distant, he looked back and saw several Indians turn a corner of the house, and instantly falling to the ground he was gratified to observe, that as they scattered in pursuit, none started in the direction he had taken.

From behind some old logs he watched their motions, and as soon as they had returned to the dwelling, he gained the adjoining woods in safety.

A few minutes after Henry had eluded the vigilance of his new master, the Indian who had gone to Hoffman’s returned, was quite angry because the former had escaped, and instantly dispatched and scalped John.

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So, yes, people, consequences!

Stay tuned, however, for the story of what occurred in new Dorlach in 1780 is not yet over!

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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR August 26, 2020 at 8:49 pm

Paul Plante says:

And as we continue to ponder what exactly Democrat Kathy Sheehan, mayor of the sanctuary city of Albany, New York, is trying to tell us American citizens when she says, “To me, stating that Black Lives Matter is something that we have to say out loud because of our history,” that in the light of this history of violence against innocent American children by Tories and Indians (Native Americans) on the frontier of the state of New York during the American Revolution, that thought takes us to these words from history, to wit:

“We do not draw the moral lessons we might from history.”

“History consists for the greater part of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetites which shake the public with the same troublous storms that toss the private state, and render life unsweet.”

“These vices are the causes of those storms.”

“It is thus with all those who, attending only to the shell and husk of history, think they are waging war with intolerance, pride, and cruelty, whilst, under color of abhorring the ill principles of antiquated parties, they are authorizing and feeding the same odious vices in different factions, and perhaps in worse.”

Those are words written in 1790, ten years after the slaughter of innocents in the Schoharie and Mohawk Valleys in the present state of New York by Tories and Indians loyal to King George III of England discussed above, by Edmund Burke of England in his “Reflections on the Revolution in France,” wherein he also wrote “(S)uch is the effect of the perversion of history by those who, for the same nefarious purposes, have perverted every other part of learning,” and “(B)ut history in the nineteenth century, better understood and better employed, will, I trust, teach a civilized posterity to abhor the misdeeds of both these barbarous ages.”

For those unfamiliar with the name, Edmund Burke (12 January 1729 – 9 July 1797) was an Irish statesman and philosopher.

Born in Dublin, Burke served as a member of parliament (MP) between 1766 and 1794 in the House of Commons of Great Britain with the Whig Party after moving to London in 1750.

Burke was a proponent of underpinning virtues with manners in society and of the importance of religious institutions for the moral stability and good of the state.

These views were expressed in 1756, 20 years before the first Fourth of July in this country, in his “A Vindication of Natural Society,” where in a swift survey of history, he finds nothing but “Tumults, Rebellions, Massacres, Assassinations, Proscriptions, and a Series of Horror” and remarks that “All Empires have been cemented in Blood” as the casualties mount in the millions, with cruelties perfected by technology.

To his credit, Burke is known to our history as one who stood up and criticized the actions of the British government towards the American colonies, including its taxation policies, which were to have lasting consequences not only for Great Britain, but for the world, as well.

Burke also supported the rights of the colonists to resist metropolitan authority, although he opposed the attempt to achieve independence.

And that same opposition to the attempts by the colonists in this country to achieve independence is what fueled the hatred towards the rebels by the Tories, the King lovers whose undivided loyalty was to the King in England, no matter how despotic his policies, which had them killing for the King and scalping women and children for the reward the King in England was paying for them in hard money.

Interestingly, Burke was a leading sceptic with respect to democracy.

While admitting that theoretically in some cases it might be desirable, he insisted a democratic government in Britain in his day would not only be inept, but also oppressive.

He opposed democracy for three basic reasons.

First, government required a degree of intelligence and breadth of knowledge of the sort that occurred rarely among the common people.

Second, he thought that if they had the vote, common people had dangerous and angry passions that could be aroused easily by demagogues, fearing that the authoritarian impulses that could be empowered by these passions would undermine cherished traditions and established religion, leading to violence and confiscation of property.

Third, Burke warned that democracy would create a tyranny over unpopular minorities, who needed the protection of the upper classes.

And with that as a preamble, let us go back to 1780, and New Dorlach, where the action resumes as follows:

Philip Crysler lived in the direction of Hoffman, and when the murderer returned, the former, disguised as an Indian, came with him.

He was not known to the family at the time, although they observed he had blue eyes, (the eyes and hair of a blooded Indian are almost invariably black) but they afterwards learned from a sister of Crysler, that his wife, hearing the gun fired at the dog of France, told her husband to put on his Indian dress, run over and save the France family by all means, as she was under such great obligations to them.

They had almost wholly supported herself and family for three years.

To the counsels of the blue-eyed Indian, as Crysler was called, the party reluctantly yielded; and leaving the rest of the family and most of their effects undisturbed, soon after withdrew.

The Indian who had been foiled by Henry, seemed most dissatisfied; and snatching a brand of fire he ran to the barn and thrust it into the hay.

Another Indian drew it out and threw it away, but some coals must have remained, as the barn and its contents were soon after in flames.

Two large barracks, each an hundred feet in circumference, standing near the barn, were also consumed.

Two of the Indians at the house of France could speak Low Dutch; Mrs. France begged of them to intercede for the lives of her offspring.

The invaders went as far west as the dwelling of Haines, capturing several of his slaves.

Haines went to Canada himself at a subsequent period.

As soon as the Indians were out of sight, Mrs. France carried the body of her murdered son into the house, his warm blood trickling upon her feet; and then, with Betsey and three younger children, concealed herself in the woods.

Henry France, after gaining the forest back of his father’s house, ran, by a circuitous route, towards the dwelling of William Spurnhuyer, who resided not far from Christian Merckley.

In the mean time, the enemy, with their plunder, accompanied by the family of Crysler, after burning the dwelling and barn of Michael Merckley, set forward on their journey.

On arriving at the house of Spurnhuyer, who had gone with his family to a place of greater security but a day or two before, they made a halt.

Spurnhuyer had left a young heifer near the dwelling, which was shot to serve the party for food.

When the gun was fired at the animal, young France was not in sight, though near, but was running directly toward that place, and supposing it fired at himself, changed his course, nor did he know at what the gun was discharged, until the return of Martin Merckley, some time after.

Thus had this lad a third time escaped the tomahawk.

He then went back and secreted himself, about sundown, near the creek, a few rods from his father’s dwelling.

He had been but a short time in this place when Mrs. Haines, who was going past with a milk-pail, discovered him in the bushes, and told him where he could find his mother.

Procuring blankets at the house the weeping group returned to sleep in the woods, fearing a visit from the bears and wolves less than they did that of the armed savage.

The family lived in the woods until the third day following their disaster, when they went to Schoharie.

Spurnhuyer’s house, after being plundered, was set on fire, and, with his barn consumed.

The invaders had proceeded only a mile or two from the settlement, when the two boys cried to return.

The executioner of the party halted with them, and soon after overtook his comrades with their bloody scalps.

Berkley, a tory present, from the vicinity of Albany, told the Misses Merckley that their brother and young Fox would not have been killed had they not cried.

Indians never fancy crying children.

It was not known in New Dorlach that those boys were killed, until a year or two afterwards, when the fact was communicated by a letter from the Merckley girls to their friends.

Persons who visited the spot near the mountain south of their father’s, designated as the place where the boys were murdered, found bones scattered over the ground, wild beasts having no doubt eaten the flesh that once covered them.

The party journeyed directly to Canada by the usual southwestern route, and as the weather was then cold, the suffering of the prisoners was very severe.

They were greatly straightened for food on the way, and putrid horse flesh, fortunately found in the path, was considered a luxury, and doubtless saved some of them from starving.

Martin Merckley was compelled to run the gantlet, and was beaten and buffeted a great distance.

Prisoners captured in the spring or fall, when the Indians were congregated in villages, usually suffered more than those taken in midsummer.

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And thus ends for us the tale, or history, of the consequences of 400 years of Red supremacy here in what became New York state, and what transpired in New Dorlach during the civil war that was the American Revolution on the frontier in what was to become the state of New York in the present United States of America, a troubled divided nation once again edging towards another civil war, which brings us to this conclusion from Jeptha R. Simms, author of “HISTORY of SCHOHARIE COUNTY, and BORDER WARS OF NEW YORK; containing also A Sketch of the Causes which led to the American Revolution; and Interesting Memoranda of the Mohawk Valley; together with Much Other Historical and Miscellaneous Matter, Never Before Published,” in 1845, to wit:

Trifling circumstances were construed into plausible pretexts too often in the Revolution — as , in fact , they will be, from the nature of things, in all civil wars — for the perpetration of the most heinous and revolting cruelties.

The reason is obvious: when all laws are disregarded and set at defiance, the baser passions of the human breast triumph over virtue and social order; and crime “Stalks abroad at noonday, Nor does she cease at midnight to destroy.”

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Perhaps would do well for everybody concerned for both Kathy Sheehan and Hawk Newsome of BLACK LIVES MATTER to give some heed to those words and consider them well, and mayor Kathy, why not white lives, as well?

Why is it that you think only Black lives matter?

Don’t white lives have value, as well?

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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR August 27, 2020 at 6:11 pm

Paul Plante says:

And while we are on the subject of what may well be called “delicious ironies” in here in the light of Kathy Sheehan, the Democrat mayor of the sanctuary city of Albany, New York telling the American people “To me, stating that Black Lives Matter is something that we have to say out loud because of our history,” with respect to that history, which may well be the source of the major-league guilt trip mayor Kathy is on that has her saying that to the candid world, as if we all shared her guilt trip, which of course we don’t, not having valid or rational reasons for doing so, let us simply go back to 1845 and Chapter III of a “HISTORY of SCHOHARIE COUNTY, and BORDER WARS OF NEW YORK; containing also A Sketch of the Causes which led to the American Revolution; and Interesting Memoranda of the Mohawk Valley; together with Much Other Historical and Miscellaneous Matter, Never Before Published,” by Jeptha R. Simms, where we find what may well be the source of mayor Kathy’s angst, to wit:

I have before remarked that the Schoharie people owned slaves.

Many of them were either purchased in the New England states, or of New England men.

When slaves were purchased out of the Colony (of New York), a duty was required to be paid on them, as the following certificate of the Mayor of Albany will show.

“Theas are to Certify, yt Nine negro men and women has been Imported Into ye County of Albany from New England, and according to an Act of ye Governor, ye Council, and the generall Assembly; William Day has paid ye Duty for said negro men and women: witness my hand this twentieth Day of Aug. 1762.

VOLKERT P. DOUW, Mayor.”

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To the City of Albany in colonial days, Black lives mattered, because they were a steady source of income for the mayor and City of Albany who were profiting off the slave trade and the misery of their fellow human beings, so that when Kathy Sheehan looks around at the opulence of her office today, she is looking at opulence paid for by the duty imposed on the importation of slaves into Albany.

So no wonder the poor woman feels so much guilt because the plight of the poor Black folks today is directly attributable to her predecessors in office as mayor of the City of Albany!

Should Kathy Sheehan be apologizing to the Black people of Albany for that crime against their humanity – making money off of them as slaves?

I would say so.

She is the mayor, afterall.

And what about reparations?

Does Albany owe the Black people some type of refund on all those duties collected off them when they were slaves?

Justice would seem to demand so, is my thought.

And that thought takes us in turn to a New York Daily News article “Cuomo again defends Columbus amid renewed calls to remove statue” by Denis Slattery on June 11, 2020, where we had as follows, to wit:

In Albany, Mayor Kathy Sheehan announced Thursday that the state capital will be removing a statue of Revolutionary War general Philip Schuyler because he was a slave owner.

“I have signed an Executive Order directing the removal of the statue honoring Maj. Gen. Philip Schuyler — reportedly the largest owner of enslaved people in Albany during his time — from in front of Albany City Hall,” Sheehan tweeted.

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Which raises the question of why stop there?

Why stop at removing the statue of Philip Schuyler, when it is Albany City Hall itself, along with the office of the mayor of Albany, that is far more responsible for the proliferation of slavery in New York than Philip Schuyler ever was, and therefore is a far more odious presence for the Black folks than is the statue of Philip Schuyler, because while he may have owned slaves, Albany City Hall is where people went to pay for the privilege of having slaves in Albany.

Why the hypocrisy?

If Philip Schuyler should have to come down because he owned slaves, then Albany City Hall has to come down as well, because Albany City Hall was profiting off the slave trade, which makes it a far more odious presence than Philip Schuyler. especially with that big BLACK LIVES MATTER banner stretched across the front of it.

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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR August 28, 2020 at 6:44 pm

Paul Plante says:

And while we continue on the subject of what may well be called “delicious ironies” in here in the light of Kathy Sheehan, the Democrat mayor of the sanctuary city of Albany, New York telling the American people “To me, stating that Black Lives Matter is something that we have to say out loud because of our history,” which history, as stated above, may well be the source of the major-league guilt trip mayor Kathy is on, the fact of the matter is that people in this country, people at least as white as Kathy Sheehan of Albany today, have been saying Black lives matter right from the time this nation began, if not earlier.

So why is it that Kathy Sheehan is finally raising her voice, all these hundreds of years later?

Consider these words from 173 years ago in 1845 on the subject of Black lives mattering from Chapter III of a “HISTORY of SCHOHARIE COUNTY, and BORDER WARS OF NEW YORK; containing also A Sketch of the Causes which led to the American Revolution; and Interesting Memoranda of the Mohawk Valley; together with Much Other Historical and Miscellaneous Matter, Never Before Published,” by Jeptha R. Simms, to wit:

The manner in which the slaves of Schoharie were generally treated by their masters, is not ineptly described by Mrs. Grant, in her Memoirs of Albany.

They were allowed freedom of speech, and indulged in many things, which other members of the family were, whose ages corresponded to their own; and to a superficial spectator, had the color not interfered, they would have seemed on an equality.

Individual instances may now be cited where blacks would be much better off under a good master then they now are, or, indeed, than thousands of the operatives of England are – -still, no one can from moral principle, although he may form motives of expediency, advocate the continuance of the evil as just and proper in any country.

The existence of slavery in the United States, is the greatest stain upon their national escutcheon.

This I believe to be a fact generally conceded, by all the good and virtuous in the land.

The question then, which naturally arises, is, or rather it should be, what is the best and most proper manner of obliterating the stain?

Let reason and common sense, not fanaticism and malice, reply.

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Clearly, long before Kathy Sheehan of Albany came along to try and exploit the BLACK LIVES MATTER movement for political gain for herself, or merely to keep them from burning down her city, which is essentially the same thing, white-skinned people in America were way out ahead of her saying that indeed, Black lives do matter, and who but a fool would assert otherwise, which thought takes us even further back in time 233 years to October 06, 1787, and the “Crito” political essay in the Providence Gazette and Country Journal, an early-American version of the Cape Charles Mirror, by Samuel Hopkins (September 17, 1721 – December 20, 1803), an American Congregationalist theologian of the late colonial era of the United States who was also an opponent of slavery, saying that it was in the interest and duty of the U.S. to set free all of their slaves, to wit:

Some, perhaps, will not chuse to read any farther; but drop this paper with a degree of uneasy disgust, when they are told the subject to which their attention is asked is, The AFRICA SLAVE TRADE, which has been practiced and in which numbers in these United States are now actually engaged.

So much has been published within a few years past on this subject, describing the fertile country of Africa, and the ease and happiness which the natives of that land enjoy, and might enjoy to a yet greater degree, were it not for their own ignorance and folly, and the unhappy influence which the Europeans and Americans have had among them, inducing them to make war upon each other, and by various methods to captivate and kidnap their brethren and neighbours, and sell them into the most abject and perpetual slavery; and at the same time giving a well-authenticated history of this commerce in the human species, pointing out the injustice, inhumanity and barbarous cruelty of this trade, from beginning to end, until the poor Africans, are fixed in a state of the most cruel bondage, in which, without hope, they linger out a wretched life; and then leave their posterity, if they are so unhappy as to have any, in the same miserable state.

So much has been lately published, I say, on these subjects, that it is needless particularly to discuss them here.

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So, yes, 400 years of what Kathy Sheehan calls “white supremacy” had consequences that were already being felt and commented on 233 years ago, long before Kathy Sheehan and the Marxist group BLACK LIVES MATTER came on the scene to dismantle what they are calling “cisgender privilege” in the United States of America while fostering a queer‐affirming network and working to disrupt the stable, law-abiding, productive Western-prescribed nuclear-family-structure requirement.

And while we are on the subject of the delicious ironies which abound in this story, that white supremacy Kathy Sheehan talks about actually goes back to Queen Anne of England who continued the tradition of royal support for the British slave trade, announcing in 1712 that she had secured an exclusive contract for the British nation to provide enslaved Africans for the Spanish West Indies for thirty years.

In a scholarly article on the subject entitled “Queen Anne’s Government and the Slave Trade” by D. A. G. Waddell in Caribbean Quarterly, Vol. 6, No. 1 (1960), pp. 7-10, published by: Taylor & Francis, Ltd.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40652736, the author traced the history of the British involvement with the slave trade, as follows:

Before the Revolution of 1688 the Royal African Company held the monopoly of English trade with Africa.

The most important part of its business was the delivery of slaves to the West Indian islands and the southern colonies of the American mainland.

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Now, note that specific language “southern colonies of the American mainland,” as opposed to American states.

Those colonies were Britain’s, not America’s.

Does that make a difference?

Of course it does to all of us who are not British and never were, when Kathy Sheehan tries to pin the rap for the British promotion of slavery in its American colonies on all people with white skin, regardless of national origin.

Getting back to that history of the business of slave trading by the English, which Queen Anne was to endorse, it continues as follows:

Its trading was fairly successful, and though there were occasional complaints, especially from Jamaica, that the number of slaves delivered were insufficient, the prices it charged for its slaves in the colonies were reasonable.

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So, as was the case in Aug. 1762 when Volkert Petrus Douw (March 23, 1720 – March 20, 1801), a merchant and politician from Albany, New York prominent both during colonial times and after the United States was established was mayor before Kathy Sheehan, and Albany was cashing in on the slave trade, for which one would think that Kathy Sheehan owes the Black folks a sincere apology, as well as reparations, the slave trade was for the English strictly a business proposition, for to them, and Queen Anne, who is directly linked to the Palatines who settled in Schoharie in the early 1700s, Black lives didn’t matter at all, except for what they were worth being sold as slaves.

Getting back to that history, we have:

But its (Royal African Company) financial position was never sound.

It had to sink a large part of its capital in forts on the African coast to protect its trade both from the warlike natives and from the rivalry of the French and Dutch.

More capital was tied up in credits to the planters, who were seldom able to pay for their slaves in cash.

Thus from an early stage the Company had to borrow money to acquire stock with which to trade.

After 1688 the Company ran into two main difficulties which it lacked the resources to surmount.

England went to war with France, and it suffered losses in ships from enemy privateers.

The volume of its trade dropped off, but its overhead costs remained as high as ever.

Secondly, the supremacy of Parliament established by the Glorioius Revolution led to a questioning of its charter of monopoly which had been granted by the Crown but not confirmed by Parliament.

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For those who don’t recall this high school history, the Glorious Revolution, also called “The Revolution of 1688” and “The Bloodless Revolution,” took place from 1688 to 1689 in England and it involved the overthrow of the Catholic king James II, who was replaced by his Protestant daughter Mary and her Dutch husband, William of Orange.

As we were taught when young, motives for the revolution were complex and included both political and religious concerns, and the event ultimately changed how England was governed, giving Parliament more power over the monarchy and planting seeds for the beginnings of a political democracy.

And that brings us to Chapter I of a “HISTORY of SCHOHARIE COUNTY, and BORDER WARS OF NEW YORK; containing also A Sketch of the Causes which led to the American Revolution; and Interesting Memoranda of the Mohawk Valley; together with Much Other Historical and Miscellaneous Matter, Never Before Published,” by Jeptha R. Simms in 1845, to wit:

After the throne of England had been vacated by the death of William and Mary, Queen Anne ascended it, and as her predecessors had done, she tolerated the Protestant religion.

It was often the case in former times, that when one form of religious worship was tolerated in a kingdom of Europe, and laws were enacted to compel all to conform to it, many who had scruples about adopting it, at the sacrifice of judgment and feeling, fled to other countries where their own religion prevailed.

It was bigotry and Catholicism, which drove the ancestors of General Marion from France to South Carolina.

The grandfather of Marion was a French Protestant: by the authorities of France he was banished to perpetual exile, and notified by letter, that if found in the kingdom after ten days from the date had transpired, his life would be forfeited, his body consumed by fire, and the ashes scattered on the winds of heaven.

I have mentioned this case to show the reader the nature of the persecution, which tended in a great measure to people the United States.

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General Marion, for those who don’t recall the name, is Francis Marion (c. 1732 – February 27, 1795), also known as the Swamp Fox, who was a military officer who served in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783).

Acting with the Continental Army and South Carolina militia commissions, he was a persistent adversary of the British in their occupation of South Carolina and Charleston in 1780 and 1781, even after the Continental Army was driven out of the state in the Battle of Camden.

Marion used irregular methods of warfare and is considered one of the fathers of modern guerrilla warfare and maneuver warfare, and is credited in the lineage of the United States Army Special Forces, also known as the “Green Berets.”

So, yes, people, I obviously think it’s very important that we recognize that 400 years of white supremacy have consequences, as we are seeing above here in technicolor, and yes, we now need more than ever to speak to those consequences and own it in order for us to engage in this civic discourse that we need to continue to engage in to ensure that we are creating a more perfect union, and thankfully, for those of us who actually are daring to engage in this civic discourse that we need to engage in to ensure that we are creating a more perfect union, thank God say I that we have the Cape Charles Mirror accessible to us for that purpose. because if it were up to Kathy Sheehan and the Albany Times Union, the only voices that would be heard are hers and the Marxist group BLACK LIVES MATTER.

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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR August 29, 2020 at 9:25 pm

Paul Plante says:

And as we continue to try and make any sense at all of Kathy Sheehan, the Democrat mayor of the sanctuary city of Albany, New York, the state’s capital, telling us “I think it’s very important that we recognize that 400 years of white supremacy have consequences,” given that she fails to tell us exactly what 400 years she is talking about, or who exactly it was that was supposed to have this “white supremacy” for 400 years, given that in this country up until the conclusion of the American revolution, who enjoyed the supremacy were the Red Men, the Native Americans, especially those of the Iroquois Confederation who happened to be the allies of the tyrant king in England, George III, except for the Oneidas and Tuscaroras, let us for the moment go back to the scholarly article on the subject of the British involvement in the slave trade during the colonial period of what was to become the United States of America on 4 July 1776, entitled “Queen Anne’s Government and the Slave Trade” by D. A. G. Waddell in Caribbean Quarterly, Vol. 6, No. 1 (1960), pp. 7-10, published by: Taylor & Francis, Ltd., where the author continued as follows, to wit:

Traders who weren’t in the Company (Royal African Company) seized their chance (to engage in the slave trade) and fitted out interloping ships which violated the monopoly.

As they did not incur the cost of maintaining forts, they were able to deliver slaves to the colonies in greater numbers and at lower rates than the Company.

The Company itself felt unable to stop the interlopers without Parliamentary sanction, and unable to put its finances in order while its monopoly was being openly violated.

In 1697 it therefore petitioned Parliament for confirmation of its charter.

For the previous ten years, however, its deliveries of slaves had been very small, and the planters feared that if the interlopers, on whom they had mainly relied during the war years, were excluded, they might be starved of slaves.

Many of the colonies thus petitioned Parliament that the trade should be open to all and the monopoly abolished.

In July, 1698 Parliament passed an act, which was to be in force for thirteen years, laying the trade open to all English subjects.

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Note that terminology “laying the (slave) trade open to all English subjects,” that being in July of 1698, which is 322 years ago from the present, and 78 years before the first Fourth of July in 1776, and the Declaration of Independence, wherein was stated in relevant part as follows with respect to our relationship to Great Britain as a separate nation, to wit:

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren.

We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us.

We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here.

We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence.

They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity.

We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved.

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In other words, we as American citizens, especially those of us who aren’t English, and never were, are not in any way, shape or manner responsible for what went on in this country before 1776, which is 244 years ago now, with respect to the institution of slavery, regardless of what mayor Kathy of Albany might think about it as she suffers her own guilt trip related to her City of Albany and its mayors before her profiting from the slave trade while New York was still a British colony, which in turn takes us to an Encyclopedia Britannica article entitled “Slave trade,” where we learn more on the subject, as follows:

Slavery, though abundantly practiced in Africa itself and widespread in the ancient Mediterranean world, had nearly died out in medieval Europe.

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And there is where this discussion of an alleged “400 years of white supremacy” having consequences that now more than ever we need to speak to and own in order for us to engage in this civic discourse that we need to continue to engage in to ensure that we are creating a more perfect union breaks down, because people like Kathy Sheehan of Albany continually ignore the fact that slavery was an institution in Africa long before it was an institution in this country, and there could be no Black slaves in this country without them first being sold by other Black folks in the home country of Africa, and until people like Kathy Sheehan and BLACK LIVES MATTER and Hawk Newsome acknowledge that fact, and the Black folks finally take responsibility for inflicting that misery and suffering on themselves, there simply will be no civic discourse, because you can’t have civic discourse with people with closed minds.

Getting back to that history, we have:

It was revived by the Portuguese in Prince Henry’s time, beginning with the enslavement of Berbers in 1442.

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1442 happens to be 578 years ago, and it is arguable that the term “white supremacy” applies to the Portuguese, who in any event were neither British subjects nor American colonists.

Nor should Kathy Sheehan of Albany be trying to lay a guilt trip on us alive today for any involvement the Portuguese had with the slave trade 578 years ago, and 334 years before the first Fourth of July which created the United States of America.

Returning to history as it happened, versus the distorted and perverted view mayor Kathy of Albany has of it, we have:

Portugal populated Cape Verde, Fernando Po (now Bioko), and São Tomé largely with black slaves and took many to the home country, especially to the regions south of the Tagus River.

New World black slavery began in 1502, when Gov. Nicolás de Ovando of Hispaniola imported a few evidently Spanish-born blacks from Spain.

Rapid decimation of the Indian population of the Spanish West Indies created a labour shortage, ultimately remedied from Africa.

The great reformer, Las Casas, advocated importation of blacks to replace the vanishing Indians, and he lived to regret having done so.

The Portuguese at first practiced Indian slavery in Brazil and continued to employ it partially until 1755.

It was gradually replaced by the African variety, beginning prominently in the 17th century and coinciding with the rapid rise of Brazilian sugar culture.

As the English, French, Dutch, and, to a lesser extent, the Danes colonized the smaller West Indian islands, these became plantation settlements, largely cultivated by blacks.

Before the latter arrived in great numbers, the bulk of manual labour, especially in the English islands, was performed by poor whites.

Some were indentured, or contract, servants; some were redemptioners who agreed to pay ship captains their passage fees within a stated time or be sold to bidders; others were convicts.

Some were kidnapped, with the tacit approval of the English authorities, in keeping with the mercantilist policy that advocated getting rid of the unemployed and vagrants.

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And there is another aspect of this matter that people like Kathy Sheehan never bother to mention – the fact that white people were enslaved, as well, pursuant to the mercantilist policies of England, which policy advocated getting rid of the unemployed and vagrants, which is how the Palatine Germans came to be here in the early 1700’s in what became New York state in 1776.

So with people like Kathy Sheehan in denial of what actually transpired in history, while trying to lay the blame for slavery on all white-skinned people alive in the United States of America today, there can be no civic discourse of any kind, nor is she even open and amenable to having a discourse.

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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR August 30, 2020 at 10:00 pm

Paul Plante says:

“It is impossible for an honest and feeling mind, of any nation or country whatever, to be insensible to the present circumstances of America.”

“Were I an East Indian, or a Turk, I should consider this singular situation of a part of my fellow creatures, as most curious and interesting.”

“Intimately connected with the country, as a citizen of the Union, I confess it entirely engrosses my mind and feelings.”

While those words are certainly applicable today to the times we now find ourselves living in, as this divided nation slips into anarchy and civil war, in fact they were first written 232 years ago on September 26, 1788 by Tench Coxe (May 22, 1755 – July 17, 1824), an American political economist and a delegate for Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress in 1788–1789 in the political essay “An American Citizen: An Examination of the Constitution of the United States I,” wherein he stated further as follows with respect to how the American colonies came to be settled in the first place, to wit:

To take a proper view of the ground on which we stand, it may be necessary to recollect the manner in which the United States were originally settled and established.

Want of charity in the religious systems of Europe and of justice in their political governments were the principal moving causes which drove the emigrants of various countries to the American continent.

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Simply stated, people left Europe in colonial times to escape injustice, which brings us back around to Queen Anne and the Palatines, as we see by going back to Chapter I of a “HISTORY of SCHOHARIE COUNTY, and BORDER WARS OF NEW YORK; containing also A Sketch of the Causes which led to the American Revolution; and Interesting Memoranda of the Mohawk Valley; together with Much Other Historical and Miscellaneous Matter, Never Before Published,” by Jeptha R. Simms in 1845, to wit:

Queen Anne, who received the crown of England in the year 1702, knowing that the Germans were in general peaceable, loyal subjects, and lovers of liberty from principle — anxious to increase the population of her American colonies, held out strong inducements to this hardy and industrious race of people to become British subjects.

She offered to give them lands, if they would settle on the frontier of certain colonies, and furnish them at the beginning with necessary tools, provisions, &c.

What added to the inducement, they could there practice their own form of religious worship.

There is a charm in the word liberty, that converts a desert wild into a paradise, and severs the cords of the fraternal, social circle.

The generous offers of Queen Anne induced thousands to bid a final farewell to the land of their nativity — cross the foaming Atlantic, and erect their altars of worship in the wilds of America, thousands of miles from the luring places to which they were known in childhood.

Schoharie, with the exception of its Indian inhabitants, was first settled by the Germans and Dutch, and to religion and the love of liberty is that settlement mostly to be attributed.

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Now, this is all important background as we continue to try and make any sense at all of Kathy Sheehan, the Democrat mayor of the sanctuary city of Albany, New York, the state’s capital, telling us “I think it’s very important that we recognize that 400 years of white supremacy have consequences,” given that she has failed to tell us exactly what 400 years she is talking about, or who exactly it was that was supposed to have this “white supremacy” for 400 years, which takes us to Chapter III of a “HISTORY of SCHOHARIE COUNTY, and BORDER WARS OF NEW YORK; containing also A Sketch of the Causes which led to the American Revolution; and Interesting Memoranda of the Mohawk Valley; together with Much Other Historical and Miscellaneous Matter, Never Before Published,” by Jeptha R. Simms in 1845, as follows:

From the fact, that the Dutch, who settled in Vrooman’s Land, were more wealthy than their German Neighbors located below them, a kind of pride or distant formality, was manifested by the former towards the latter for many years.

When prejudices of any kind are allowed to gain a place in the human breast, it often requires generations to eradicate them.

The prejudices alluded to as having existed between the Dutch and Germans, tended for many years almost wholly to prevent inter-marriages between them.

As I have already stated, much prejudice existed at Schoharie in former days, between the Germans and Dutch.

These national antipathies were manifested in nothing more clearly at first, than in matters of religion.

The early Germans were, almost without exception, disciples to the doctrines of Martin Luther; while the Dutch, collectively, subscribed the Calvinistic, or Dutch Reformed creed.

While they existed, they tended to prevent that friendly interchange of good feeling — that reciprocity of kindness, so necessary to the prosperity and happiness of an isolated people.

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So, who had the white supremacy there?

The Dutch?

The Germans?

Or the British?

Or should we do like mayor Kathy of Albany and disregard reality and lump them in all together, because in the end, they all had white skin, so they all must be equally guilty of white supremacy?

Getting back to Simms, we have:

Smith’s history of New York informs us, that General Hunter, who had been appointed governor of the province, arrived at New York on the fourteenth day of June, 1710, bringing with him near three thousand Palatines, who, the year before, had fled to England from the rage of persecution in Germany.

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All these figures from high school history are coming to life in here as we ponder this question of 400 years of white supremacy having consequences, but for whom?

General Hunter is a reference to Robert Hunter (1666–1734), a British military officer, colonial governor of New York and New Jersey from 1710 to 1720, and governor of Jamaica from 1727 to 1734 whose philosophy was that “the true Interests of the People and Government are the same, I mean A Government of Laws.”

“No other deserves the Name, and are never Separated or Separable but in Imagination by Men of Craft.”

Ah, yes, men of craft, which today would also include women of craft like Democrats Nancy Pelosi and Kathy Sheehan of Albany.

General Hunter began his military career 332 years ago in 1688 when a guard was formed to protect the future Queen Anne as the rift began with her father James II.

He was appointed aide-major, 19th Apr. 1689, in the regiment of dragoons raised by Henry Erskine, 3rd Lord Cardross, in support of William of Orange in Flanders.

Henry Erskine, 3rd Lord Cardross, was a Scot who had been educated in the principles of the covenanters, and at an early period distinguished himself by his opposition to the administration of John Maitland, 1st Duke and 2nd Earl of Lauderdale, 3rd Lord Thirlestane KG PC (24 May 1616 – 24 August 1682), who was a Scottish politician, and leader within the Cabal Ministry, a group of high councillors of King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland from 1668 to c. 1674, who through the Foreign Affairs committee and their own offices were able to direct government policy both at home and abroad.

Is that some of the white supremacy mayor Kathy of Albany, whose predecessors in office profited off the slave trade in the colony of New York, is on about?

As to the Covenanters, they were members of a 17th-century Scottish religious and political movement, who supported a Presbyterian Church of Scotland, and the primacy of its leaders in religious affairs, the name deriving from Covenant, a biblical term for a bond or agreement with God.

As history informs us, the origins of the movement lay in disputes with James VI & I, and his son Charles I of England over church structure and doctrine, which interestingly was to lead to us in this country having separation of church and state, and with good reason as we consider this history which was to lead to the first Fourth of July in this country in 1776.

In 1638, thousands of Scots signed the National Covenant, pledging to resist changes imposed by Charles on the kirk, a Scottish word meaning “church”, or more specifically the Church of Scotland.

Following victory in the 1639 and 1640 Bishops’ Wars, the Covenanters took control of Scotland.

The 1639 and 1640 Bishops’ Wars were the first of the conflicts known collectively as the 1638 to 1651 Wars of the Three Kingdoms, which took place in Scotland, England and Ireland.

Others include the Irish Confederate Wars, the First, Second and Third English Civil Wars, and the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.

Their origin stemmed from disputes over governance of the Church of Scotland, popularly known as the kirk, dating back to the 1580s.

Royalists generally supported rule by bishops, while most Scots supported a Presbyterian kirk ruled by presbyters, or leaders of a local Christian congregation, and in predominant Protestant usage, presbyter does not refer to a member of a distinctive priesthood called priests, but rather to a minister, pastor, or elder.

In the 17th century, debates over religious practice and structure were closely linked to different views of power and control; as a result, the conflict led to major changes to the Scottish political system, as well as the kirk.

Matters came to a head in 1637, when Charles I attempted to impose uniform practices on the kirk and the Church of England, changes opposed by the presbyters and English Puritans.

The 1638 National Covenant pledged to oppose such “innovations”, and, in December, the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland voted to expel bishops from the kirk.

This was followed in August 1639 by a series of acts passed by the Parliament of Scotland that amounted to a constitutional revolution.

The Covenanters defeated attempts by Charles to re-impose his authority in 1639 and 1640, and gained control of Scotland, but, to protect that settlement, they sought support from sympathisers in Ulster and England.

Since Charles did the same, the result was to destabilize not only Scotland, but England and Ireland also, resulting in The Wars of the Three Kingdoms.

The 1643 Solemn League and Covenant brought them into the First English Civil War on the side of Parliament, but they supported Charles in the 1648 Second English Civil War.

After his execution in 1649, the Covenanter government agreed to restore his son Charles II to the English throne; defeat in the 1651 Third English Civil War led to Scotland’s incorporation into the Commonwealth of England.

After the 1660 Restoration, the Covenanters lost control of the kirk and became a persecuted minority, leading to several armed rebellions and a period from 1679 to 1688 known as “The Killing Time.”

According to Scottish history, which itself is long and bloody, in reference to “The Killing Time,” when Charles II was restored to the thrones of Scotland and England, he should probably have clambered onto his knees and thanked God for his return to power.

His father had been executed, he was viewed with suspicion by his own subjects, and he had been forced into exile after losing a battle against parliament’s forces.

Given his track record, it is astonishing that he was given another chance to rule.

However, instead of simply being grateful and trying to do a good job as monarch, Charles brought his vengeance and arrogance back with him.

The result was that Scotland was virtually plunged into yet another spell of religious intolerance.

Once restored to the Scottish throne, the king decided to get his own back on the Scots Presbyterians who had lectured him and ridiculed his family when he had first been given power.

Those who supported Scotland’s Covenant, he decided, were to be taught a harsh lesson.

The Scottish parliament, the Estates, was recalled in 1661.

It became known as the Drunken Parliament, but its actions were far from slow or muddled.

It wiped out all the Covenanter legislation of the previous 30 years, The Privy Council was brought back, bishops were restored to the Kirk, and the covenant was declared illegal.

The new Estates decided to keep the efficient system of tax gathering that had been instituted under Cromwell, but much else was changed.

The main trouble was caused by an edict that said Kirk ministers could no longer simply be chosen by local congregations, but had to be approved by local patrons and bishops.

All ministers were ordered to conform to this ruling.

They were furious, and more than 250 of them resigned their charges instead of complying.

Instead of preaching in churches, they began to do so on the Scottish moors.

These meetings quickly became known as Conventicles, and those who attended them were named Covenanters.

By 1665, they had become extremely popular, though attending them was a dangerous business.

Attending them was illegal, and government troops were often despatched to break them up and levy fines.

In reply, the Covenanters often stationed their own guards nearby when services were in progress.

Tensions between the two sides grew, particularly in strong covenanting areas of the country such as Galloway.

In 1666, the Covenanters captured the commander of government troops in south western Scotland, Sir James Turner, and paraded him towards Edinburgh in his nightshirt.

This act of insurrection led them into direct conflict with General Tam Dalyell, the commander of the army in Scotland.

At Rullion Green near Edinburgh, a force of 900 of the covenanters was defeated by Dalyell.

The leaders of the rebellion were hanged, others tortured or imprisoned, and even women and children murdered.

WOW!

Is that some of the white supremacy mayor Kathy is on about then?

Stay tuned, for the history train has left the station courtesy of the good offices of the Cape Charles Mirror!

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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR August 31, 2020 at 8:59 pm

Paul Plante says:

And as we continue to ponder an alleged and supposed “400 years of white supremacy” by somebody that has “consequences” for the rest of us that we have to “own” according to Democrat Kathy Sheehan, the mayor of the sanctuary city of Albany, New York, let us once again go back in time 232 years ago to September 26, 1788 and the political essay “An American Citizen: An Examination of the Constitution of the United States I” by Tench Coxe (May 22, 1755 – July 17, 1824), an American political economist and a delegate for Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress in 1788–1789, wherein he stated as follows with respect to how the United States of America came to be separated from the tyrannical and despotic “Mother Country” of England, to wit:

“Tis evident from this short detail and the reflections which arise from it, that the quarrel between the United States and the Parliament of Great Britain did not arise so much from objections to the form of government, though undoubtedly a better one by far is now within our reach, as from a difference concerning certain important rights resulting from the essential principles of liberty, which the constitution preserved to all the subjects actually residing within the realm.”

“It was not asserted by America that the people of the island of Great Britain were slaves, but that we, though possessed absolutely of the same rights, were not admitted to enjoy an equal degree of freedom.”

“When the Declaration of Independence completed the separation between the two countries, new governments were necessarily established.”

“Many circumstances led to the adoption of the republican form, among which was the predilection of the people.”

“In devising the frames of government it may have been difficult to avoid extremes opposite to the vices of that we had just rejected; nevertheless many of the state constitutions we have chosen are truly excellent.”

“Our misfortunes have been, that in the first instance we adopted no national government at all, but were kept together by common danger only, and that in the confusions of a civil war we framed a federal constitution now universally admitted to be inadequate to the preservation of liberty, property, and the Union.”

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First of all, as we slip back into chaos, confusion, anarchy and civil war in this country today, note the words from our own history from 232 years ago, “in the confusions of a civil war we framed a federal constitution now universally admitted to be inadequate to the preservation of liberty, property, and the Union.”

And once again, make note of the fact that the “civil war” he was talking about then, 232 years ago in 1788, twelve years after the first Fourth of July, was what we today, if we are even aware of it, which many people no longer are, being a confused and disoriented people with no history at all, call the “American Revolution,” a term rather devoid of meaning when one considers the outright violence of that period meted out to people who were for liberty by other Americans whose loyalty was to the tyrant king in England, George III.

And then go to the words “(M)any circumstances led to the adoption of the republican form, among which was the predilection of the people,” and ask yourself this simple question, to wit: Do we still have a Republican form in this country today, and if so, how then can such a thing as “white supremacy,” or any other color supremacy for that matter, including Black supremacy, exist?

And what even is the “Republican form” he talked about 232 years ago?

Does anybody today even have a clue?

And no, the “Republican form” has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the minority faction in the United States of America that calls itself the “Republican party,” nor does it have anything to do with Donald Trump, or “white nationalism,” whatever on earth that might in fact be, or “white supremacy.”

Far from it, in fact, at least in theory.

So what then is it?

And for that answer, let us go to an educational site for children in this country called the Center for Civic Education, and Lesson 3: “What Is a Republican Government?” from the first edition of “We the People: The Citizen & the Constitution, Level 1,” for upper elementary students, where we have as follows, and please note that this lesson is in fact for children in America who are upper elementary students, to wit:

Purpose of Lesson

This lesson will help you understand why the Founders thought a republican form of government was best.

You will also learn about civic virtue and the common welfare.

The Founders Studied History

The Founders studied the history of governments.

They were very interested in what they read about the government of the Roman Republic.

It was located in what is now the country of Italy.

The Roman Republic existed more than 2,000 years before our nation began.

The Founders liked what they read about the Roman Republic.

They learned some important ideas from their study of the government of ancient Rome.

They used some of these ideas when they created our government.

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Those who do not know history in the end are easily manipulated and exploited fools, which describes so many people in this country today, perhaps starting with Kathy Sheehan, the Democrat mayor of Albany, New York whose knowledge of our history is abysmal and sorely lacking, with her blather about “400 years of white supremacy” having consequences that we American citizens have to own, despite we having absolutely no responsibility whatsoever for what happened before we were even born and acts committed by people who were not even American citizens.

Getting back to the civics lesson for children, we have, to wit:

What is a Republican Government?

The government of Rome was called a republican government.

The Founders read that republican government was one in which:

* The power of government is held by the people.

* The people give power to leaders they elect to represent them and serve their interests.

* The representatives are responsible for helping all the people in the country, not just a few people.

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So, where is the “white supremacy” then, besides in the twisted mind of Kathy Sheehan of Albany?

And back again to the lesson in civics we go, as follows:

What are the Advantages of Republican Government?

The Founders thought a republican government was the best kind of government they could choose for themselves.

They believed that the advantages of republican government were:

* Fairness.

They believed that laws made by the representatives they elected would be fair.

If their representatives did not make fair laws, they could elect others who would.

* Common welfare.

The laws would help everyone instead of one person or a few favored people.

* Freedom and prosperity.

People would have greater freedom and be able to live well.

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Today, that really should read, in the beginning, they believed that laws made by the representatives they elected would be fair, an if their representatives did not make fair laws, they could elect others who would, but today, due to factionalism, that is no longer true where we don’t really have people in Congress representing us if we are not a member of the minority faction the Democrat party, which is in the game for itself, not the American people, or a member of the minority faction the Republican party, which is also in the game for itself, not the American people, based on the political maxim “To the victor go the spoils!”

Getting back to the lesson again, we have:

What is the Common Welfare?

When a government tries to help everyone in a country, we say it is serving the common welfare.

The common welfare is what is good for everyone in the country, not just a few people.

Problem Solving

Your Interests and the Common Welfare


How do you decide what the common welfare is?

When should you give up your own interests to do something that is good for everyone?

Each person has to answer this question for himself or herself.

What is Civic Virtue?

When you work to help others and promote the common welfare, you are showing civic virtue.

The Founders thought civic virtue was important for a republican government.

People with civic virtue are interested in having the government help all the people.

The Founders thought it was necessary to teach children the importance of helping others.

Young people learned about civic virtue in their homes, schools, and churches.

Adults also heard about civic virtue from their religious and political leaders.

The Founders thought a republican government would work in our country.

They believed most of the people had civic virtue.

They thought the people would select leaders who would work for the common welfare.

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To which today, as an older and wiser American citizen, all I can say is how very wrong they were on that account – that the people would select leaders who would work for the common welfare.

Perhaps that was true as one time in this country, but as Democrat Kathy Sheehan of Albany with her Cancel Culture is proving, that is no longer so, and in fact, hasn’t been so for many, many years now, which is to our shame as a people who have truly lost their way and no longer know where they are or what they are even doing, or why!

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Re: ON THE FOURTH OF JULY

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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR September 2, 2020 at 8:37 pm

Paul Plante says:

“I hope my countrymen will never have occasion to blush for me, whatever may be the event of this campaign.”

Those were words written in a correspondence dated Moses Creek, four miles below Fort Edward, July 24th, 1777 from General Philip Schuyler, whose statue in front of Albany City Hall in New York state has been ordered to be removed by an executive order of Democrat mayor Kathy Sheehan of that same city, because obviously today, some of his countrymen, starting with mayor Kathy, do have occasion to not only blush for him, but to revile him, as well, to the Albany Committee of Correspondence, Safety, and Protection which was formed over the winter of 1774-1775, and would take over for an increasingly inadequate Albany Corporation which had governed the city since 1686, and although city-based, over the next two and a half years, the Albany Committee extended its authority and influence throughout Albany County and beyond.

Two days prior, on the 22d of July 1777, the chairman of the Albany committee had written to Gen. Schuyler as follows:

“Hon. Sir – Colo. Vrooman and two other gentlemen from Schoharie, are now with us, and represent the distress their part of the county is driven to.”

“Threats, they hourly receive; their persons and property are exposed to imminent danger nearly one-half of the people heretofore well disposed, have laid down their arms, and propose to side with the enemy.”

“All which change has taken its origin from the desertion of Ticonderoga, the unprecedented loss of which, we are afraid, will be followed by a revolt of more than one-half of the northern part of this county.”

“We therefore beg leave to suggest whether it would not be advisable to detain one or two companies of continental troops, which are expected here, to be sent that way for a few days, which we suppose might bring the greater part again to a sense of their duty.”

Thus were the serious straits the people of this fledgling nation found themselves in a little over a year after the first Fourth of July in 1776.

Fear for their lives and families on the frontier in the colony of New York was causing the people to turn their backs on independence and instead, to seek protection from the Tories, or Royalists, the King lovers of that time who themselves possessed considerable martial skills, and a burning hatred of those seeking to be an independent nation no longer subject to the tyrant King George III in England, which history Democrat mayor Sheehan would like to sweep under the carpet as she seeks to change our history, which she considers “racist,” given that the people creating that history in some large part had white skin, instead of Black, which color is in vogue now in this day and age of BLACK LIVES MATTER and their threat to burn down our system if they do not get their way in all things political in this country, just as the Indians and Tories were burning down the frontier in New York back then to suppress the Revolution, which was to degenerate into years of civil war on our frontier.

By way of reference, at that time, British Lieutenant General John Burgoyne’s 8,000-man army composed of British regulars, Tories, Indians and German mercenaries was coming south from Canada headed towards Albany, and between 2 and 6 July 1777, Fort Ticonderoga, near the southern end of Lake Champlain in the state of New York had been abandoned by the Americans after Burgoyne’s army occupied the high ground above the fort, and nearly surrounded the defenses, which abandonment was to tarnish the reputation of General Schuyler and result in his replacement by General “Granny” Gates, who was to set a land speed record for a man fleeing combat on horseback on August 16, 1780 during the Battle of Camden in South Carolina, which was a major victory for the British in the Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War, where British forces under Lieutenant General Charles, Lord Cornwallis routed the numerically superior U.S. forces led by Major General Horatio Gates about four miles north of Camden, thus strengthening the British hold on the Carolinas following the capture of Charleston.

The rout was a personally humiliating defeat for Gates, the U.S. general best known for commanding the American forces at the British defeat at Saratoga three years previously, although credit for that victory really belonged to Daniel Morgan of Virginia and Benedict Arnold, later to turn traiter to the American cause and instead, join with the British, as the people in Schoharie were doing in 1777.

In that battle of Camden, Gates’ army had possessed a great numerical superiority over the British force, having twice the personnel, but his command of them was seen as shambolic, and following the battle, he was regarded with distain by his colleagues and he never held a field command again.

However, his political connections helped him avoid any military inquiries or courts martial into the debacle, and it was those same political connections that had him replace Philip Schuyler in 1777 after the loss of Ticonderoga to the British.

After just one hour of combat in that battle in Camden in 1780, the same year Tories and Indians were burning their way through the Schoharie and Mohawk Valleys, the American troops under “Granny” Gates had been utterly defeated, suffering over 2,000 casualties.

Banestre Tarleton’s cavalry pursued and harried the retreating Continental troops for some 22 miles before drawing rein.

By that evening, Gates, mounted on a swift horse, had taken refuge 60 miles away in Charlotte, North Carolina.

According to Charles Stedman, one of Cornwallis’ officers, after that battle, “The road for some miles was strewn with the wounded and killed who had been overtaken by the legion in their pursuit.”

“The numbers of dead horses, broken wagons, and baggage scattered on the road formed a perfect scene of horror and confusion: Arms, knapsacks, and accoutrements found were innumerable; such was the terror and dismay of the Americans.”

Thus, the mention by the Albany committee in July of 1777 of the “desertion” of Fort Ticonderoga and the very serious impact that had on the people on the frontier of the colony of New York to the west of Albany along the Mohawk and Schoharie Valleys, who at that time were also subject to raids by Indians under the command of Joseph Brant, and Tories.

Concerning the depressed spirits of the people on the frontier at that time, subsequent to the abandonment of Fort Ticonderoga after its continued occupancy by the Americans became untenable due to the emplacement of British cannons on Mount Defiance which overlooked the fort, on the 24th of July, 1777, the chairman of the Albany committee wrote to the New York council of safety as follows:

“Gentlemen – Yours of the 22d instant is now before us, recommending us to use our utmost influence to revive the drooping spirits of the inhabitants of this and Tryon county. ”

“A duty so essential as this, has long since been our principal object, by following the example you have recommended to us; but upon the whole, gentlemen, they are only words upon which we have long played, and we earnestly hope they may be realized in such a manner as that the usual confidence the people of this and Tryon county have in our board, may not depreciate in the eyes of the public, on which head we beg leave to remark, that your sanguine expectations of Col. Harper’s rangers will by no means answer the purpose.”

“The gentleman undoubtedly has abilities, and will exert himself; but when this matter is held up in a more clear view, it will appear that every man, almost, in this and Tryon county, adapted for the ranging service, is engaged in the continental, occasioned by the amazing bounty that has been given; and on the other hand, the necessary men employed in various branches attending an army, together with the constant drain of militia, though but few in number, occasioned by the above circumstance, are still necessitated to discharge their duty to their country, all which point out to you the impracticability of the plan.”

“After considering these particulars, (which we believe have not been sufficiently suggested by the honorable the council,) we conceive it will be impossible to collect any more men on the proposed plan, by reason that their pay and encouragement is not adequate to the times.”

“If the foregoing difficulties have any weight, you may judge that no essential service can be expected from the rangers, nor can have any weight with the people to the westward.

“We enclose you a copy of a letter by us sent to Gen. Schuyler, from which you will perceive the distressed situation the people of Schoharie are in.”

Speaking of the Fourth of July, the little settlement at Harpersfield, some 66 miles south-west of Albany , which was greatly exposed to savage inroads, organized a committee of vigilance, of which Isaac Patchin was chairman.

In view of the enemy’s proximity, Mr. Patchin wrote to the State Council of Safety, on the 4th of July, 1777, as follows:

“Gentlemen – The late irruptions and hostilities committed at Tunadilla, by Joseph Brandt, with a party of Indians and tories, have so alarmed the well-affected inhabitants of this and the neighboring settlements, who are now the entire frontier of this state, that except your honors doth afford us immediate protection, we shall be obliged to leave our settlements to save our lives and families; especially as there is not a man on the outside of us, but such as have taken protection of Brant, and many of them have threatened our destruction in a short time, the particular circumstances of which Col. Harper, (who will wait on your honors,) can give you a full account of, by whom we hope for your protection, in what manner to conduct ourselves.”

Note the reference therein, “especially as there is not a man on the outside of us, but such as have taken protection of Brant, and many of them have threatened our destruction in a short time,” which is a direct reference to the civil war in this country that was the American Revolution, which had members of the same families fighting against each other on different sides, as well as neighbor against neighbor, a situation we seem to be descending into all over again, which is why this history should not be swept under the rug by people such as mayor Kathy of Albany, and why we today should stand up to people like mayor Kathy and BLACK LIVES MATTER.

Thereafter, on the 8th July, 1777, William Harper wrote the Albany council from Cherry Valley, also within Tryon county, stating the exposed condition of that place, and the rumor of the enemy’s nearness under Brant.

The committee to which was referred the correspondence of Isaac Patchin and Wm. Harper, introduced several resolutions to the New York council of safety on the 17th July; in which they recommended raising two companies of rangers, to serve on the frontiers of Tryon, Ulster, and Albany counties, under the command of John Harper and James Clyde, as captains, and Alexander Harper and John Campbell as lieutenants.

Lt. Harper, as soon as twenty-five men were enlisted by Col. John Harper as recruiting officer, was to take charge of them and repair to a post of danger.

In the correspondence of the Provincial Congress of New York, we then have as follows from the Schoharie Committee Chamber, July 17, 1777, to wit:

“Gentlemen – The late advantage gained over us by the enemy, has such effect upon numbers here, that many we thought steady friends to the state seem to draw back; our state therefore, is deplorable; all our frontiers [frontier settlers] except those that are to take protection from the enemy, are gone, so that we are entirely open to the Indians and tories, which we expect every hour to come to this settlement: part of our militia is at Fort Edward; the few that are here many of them, are unwilling to take up arms to defend themselves, as they are not able to stand against so great a number of declared enemies, who speak openly without any reserve.”

“Therefore, if your honors do not grant us immediate relief, of about five hundred men to help defend us, we must either fall a prey to the enemy, or take protection also.”

“For further particulars we refer you to the bearer, Col. Wills, in whom we confide to give you a true account of our state and situation, and of the back settlements, as he is well acquainted with them.”

“We beg that your honors will be pleased to send us an answer by the bearer.”

“We remain, Your honors’ most obed’t humble servants.”

Signed by order or the committee. JOHANNES BALL, Chairman..

Today, we take our independence as a nation as a matter of fact, but in the beginning, that was hardly so, as we see in that correspondence above with reference to “we must either fall a prey to the enemy, or take protection also.”

Thereafter, on the 22d, the Council wrote “To the Chairman of the Committee of Schoharie,” as follows:

“Kingston, July 22, 1777.”

“Gentlemen: It greatly astonishes this Council that the settlement of Schoharie, which has always been considered as firmly and spiritedly attached to the American cause, should be panic-struck upon the least appearance of danger.”

“Can you conceive that our liberties can possibly de redeemed from that vassalage which our implacable foes are, with unrelenting cruelty, framing for us, without some danger and some vigorous efforts on our part?”

“To expect that Providence, however righteous our cause, will, without a vigorous use of those means which it has put in our power, interpose in our behalf, is truly to expect that God will work miracles for us, when those means, well improved, will afford sufficient security to our inestimable rights.”

“It is your bounden duty, if you wish for the smiles of Heaven in favor of the public cause in which you are so deeply interested, to acquit yourselves like men.”

“A few worthless Indians, and a set of villains, who have basely deserted their country, are all the enemies you have to fear.”

“We have good reason to believe that the greatest and most deserving part of the Six Nations are well disposed toward us.”

“This Council is exerting itself to secure you against danger, and only wish you would second their efforts.”

“Tryon county is a frontier to your settlement; in that county Fort Schuyler (Stanwix) is a respectable fortress, properly garrisoned.”

“Major General Schuyler has sent up a part of a regiment as a further reinforcement.”

“We have authorized Colonel Harper to raise and embody two hundred men for covering and protecting the inhabitants, and have formed such a disposition of the militia of the county of Tryon for alternate relieves as we hope will tend effectually to secure you.”

“If any proclamations or protections should be offered you by the enemy, by all means reject them.”

“From the woful experience of those who have fallen within their influence in other parts of the country, we have the highest reasons to believe that your acceptance of those tenders of friendship, should they be made, will render your misery and slavery unavoidable.”

“In further attention to the cause of your settlement and Tryon county, we have this morning sent Mr. Robert Livingston to Gen. Washington.”

“He is authorized to concert with his Excellency the most effectual measures for putting the western frontiers of this state in all possible security.

“In the mean time we expect much from your public virtue; that it will induce you to apprehend and send to us the disaffected among you ; that it will lead you to the most effectual means of securing your property from the depredations of a weak but insidious foe; and that it will teach you the impropriety of deserting your habitations, and keep you in continual readiness to repel the assaults of the enemies of the liberty of your country.”

“We write to the general committee of the county of Albany, to give you all the countenance, assistance, and support in their power.”

The following is part of a letter from the same body, under the same date, to the Albany Committee:

“Gentlemen – The great depression of spirits of the inhabitants of Tryon county, and the settlers of Schoharie, give this Council much uneasiness, as it exposes them to the depredations of an enemy whom they might otherwise despise.”

“We hope that your committee will not be wanting to support the drooping spirits of the western inhabitants in general, and particularly of those within your county.”

“We have great reason to fear the breaking up of the settlement of Schoharie, unless our exertions be seconded by your efforts.”

“You well know that such an event on the frontiers will not only be attended with infinite mischief to the inhabitants, but will furnish cause for discouragement to the country in general.”

“Every means should therefore be tried to prevent it.

“This Council are earnestly solicitous to put the western frontiers of this state in a situation as respectable as possible; and though they conceive the enemy’s strength to consist principally in those exaggerations which result from the threats of our internal foes, and the fears of our friends; yet as those may be productive of real mischief, they would endeavor by every means in their power to prevent the evil.”

“Your known exertions in the public cause will not permit them to doubt of your straining every nerve to second their endeavors,” &c., &c.

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Take notice then of these words from our history on July 22, 1777, to wit: “From the woful experience of those who have fallen within their influence in other parts of the country, we have the highest reasons to believe that your acceptance of those tenders of friendship, should they be made, will render your misery and slavery unavoidable.”

Yes, indeed, the consequences of 400 years of British supremacy, which mayor Kathy likes to think of as “white supremacy,” even though from those very words about “will render your misery and slavery unavoidable,” it is clear that white people for independence in this country at that time hardly had any “white supremacy” at all, especially when Joseph Brant, the Mohawk Indian was chief and his murderous Red Men were on the prowl.

So why does Democrat mayor of Albany Kathy Sheehan now want to bury this history along with Philip Schuyler?

Any thoughts, anyone?

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Re: ON THE FOURTH OF JULY

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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR September 4, 2020 at 9:17 pm

Paul Plante says:

It is interesting as we follow along this history of our nation’s beginnings after the first Fourth of July in 1776 in what was in reality a bloody civil war in this country fought between those who were for liberty and independence versus those who remained loyal to the tyrant King George III in England that that history then leads us to these following words, which in their turn lead us to today, and the incipient civil war we are once again facing as a people and as a nation, to wit:

“A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies.”

Those were words from January 8, 1790, 162 months after the first Fourth of July in 1776, and 76 months after the end of the American Revolution on September 3, 1783, and roughly two years before the ratification of the 2d Amendment to the United States Constitution in December of 1791, which amendment states “(A) well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed,” that were addressed to the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate by America’s first president of the newly-formed federal government George Washington, the former Commanding General of our Continental Army during the American Revolution, in his First Annual Address To Congress.

Note how he phrased that, to wit; “A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined.”

Today, we are a heavily armed people, but are we a disciplined people?

Talking about the incipient civil war now brewing in this sad and sorry nation at war with itself, from what is transpiring presently in the nation, and here I am thinking mainly but not only of Kenosha, Wisconsin, and 17-year old Kyle Rittenhouse, who traveled some 20 miles to Kenosha while armed to ultimately engage in gunfire with members of an anarchist mob rioting in that city, one can only wonder.

Which thought then brings us back around to the 2d Amendment and the so-called God-given “inalienable right to bear arms,” as it always seems to do when “guns” are at issue, as they so often are today, seemingly on a daily basis anymore, including in Democrat mayor Kathy Sheehan’s lawless sanctuary city of Albany, New York, where in a recent Albany Times Union article titled “Seven-year-old shot in Albany’s South End on Sunday” by Massarah Mikati on Aug. 30, 2020, we had as follows, to wit:

ALBANY — A 7-year-old child was shot in the knee Sunday afternoon when gunman in a vehicle opened fire on a crowd of people gathered outside to enjoy the late summer weather, police said.

Caught in the crossfire that left a man injured too, the youngster is at least the third child 10 or younger shot in Albany in 2020 and the 100th shooting victim this year.

Chief Eric Hawkins said preliminary investigations have found the shooting was a drive-by with multiple people involved.

He is unsure how many of those people fired weapons, and there are no suspect or vehicle descriptions being released yet.

“It’s very unsettling to have something like this happen in a vibrant, family-oriented neighborhood in broad daylight,” he said near the scene of the shooting.

“These are individuals who have no regard for life, and it’s important that we find out who they are and bring those individuals to justice.”

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But my goodness, people, why get all excited?

Afterall, they too have God-given “inalienable rights” to bear arms under the 2d Amendment, just like everybody else in this nation, so what is the big deal?

Just because they are murderous thugs, savages and animals does not mean they should be deprived of their God-given “inalienable rights” to bear arms, because if they were so deprived, then the “God-given right” would no longer be inalienable, i.e. unable to be taken away from or given away by the possessor, now would they, especially as it was George Washington himself, the so-called “Father” of this country who said in 1790 in his first address to Congress that a free people ought to be armed, as these savages and animals clearly were that day in mayor Kathy’s lawless sanctuary city of Albany, New York, this state’s pathetic capital city with a huge BLACK LIVES MATTER banner prominently displayed across the front of mayor Kathy’s city hall, when actually, as we can see from this story, they don’t matter at all to the Black folks doing the shooting at other Black folks in that sorry city, which takes us back to that story, as follows:

Mayor Kathy Sheehan said she spoke with the child’s mother and grandmother Sunday.

“The depraved indifference involved in shooting a gun in the presence of a child is difficult to fathom, and callous acts like these will not be tolerated in our city,” Sheehan said in a written statement released by her office.

“Our residents deserve better, and our city deserves better.”

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Which is BULL****, as we can clearly see by going back to another Albany, New York Times Union article entitled “Demonstrators rally outside court for couple arrested while recording police” by Steve Hughes on June 17, 2020, where we have as follows, to wit:

Addison and Shuman were arrested shortly after they began recording the arrest of another man near the intersection of South Pearl and Arch streets.

The incident took place days after several rallies – including two that featured clashes between police and protesters – were held in Albany to call for police reforms and an end to police brutality after the May 25 killing of George Floyd, who died after a Minneapolis police officer kneeled on his neck for nearly nine minutes.

Police accused Addison of inciting a riot and resisting arrest.

The incident occurred near the police department’s South Station where police and protesters clashed on May 30.

Shuman was also accused of resisting arrest.

As videos of the arrest surfaced, Mayor Kathy Sheehan said she was troubled by the behavior of police and the city announced the charges would be dropped.

The case was referred to the police department’s Office of Professional Standards.

“The video footage does not appear to depict efforts by police to de-escalate a situation, nor it does it depict the sensitivity I expect from all city employees in this moment and every day,” she said.

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Which brings us back to the Aug. 30, 2020 Times Union story, as follows:

Brenda Warner lives a few houses down from where the shooting took place, and saw the gunfire herself while sitting on her front deck.

It’s not the first shooting she’s seen, she said, but it never gets any easier to witness the tragedies.

“You don’t ever forget,” she said.

Broken glass was pooled on the street in front of her.

Warner has been a resident of the Clinton Street block for a total of eight years.

The neighborhood, she said, has changed, and she doesn’t feel safe living alone anymore.

“I said to the cop today, ‘You only come when somebody gets hurt or if there’s a shooting.'”

“‘It’s like you’re afraid to come on this block, but why?'” she said.

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And that answer is simple – they are afraid that if they do come, and they are not “sensitive” enough to the “feelings” of the savages with their depraved indifference doing the shooting, that mayor Kathy will demand that they too be suspended and disciplined and have their lives and careers destroyed, as she did with the detectives involved with the rioters because they did not depict the “sensitivity” mayor Kathy expects from all city employees in this moment and every day, which takes us back to the story, as follows:

“We’re citizens, too, and we have rights just like everybody else.”

“One right is you’re supposed to be protected.”

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Oh, really?

By whom?

Other people with guns?

And how?

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