Ukraine War and our Revolutionary War Posted on 3/19/2022 at 22:26:26 by Ed Tipshus
Number reason to Fight for your Country :
WHAT THE COLONIST SAID IN 1842
Judge Melon Chamberlain interviewed 91 year old Captain Preston a veteran of the Battle of Concord in 1775 (at age24) to understand why Preston fought against the British
Judge Chamberlain: Did you take up arms against intolerable oppression
replied The Captain that he had never felt any oppression
Judge Chamberlain: Was it the stamp act
Captain Preston: No I never saw one of those stamps
Judge Chamberlain: was it the tea tax
Captain Preston: said no again
Judge Chamberlain: were you reading John Locke or any other theorist of Liberty
Captain Preston: never heard of ‘em, we read only the Bible the Catechism and Watts’ Psalms and Hymns and the Almanac
Judge Chamberlain: Why then did you fight
Captain Preston: “Young man, what we meant in going for those redcoats was this; We always had to govern ourselves and we always meant to, they didn't mean we should.”
