amazing country
hardly begun to dream of
its own destiny
My Great Grandfather was the 16Th Michigan of the 3rd Brigade of the Ist Division of the 5th Corps
In Volume II, Glory Road, of his three volume history of the Army of the Potomac, Bruce Catton writes after the Battle of Chancellorsville, a young officer heard soldiers singing Rally Around the Flag Boys and that:
They were putting everything they had into a song that had suddenly taken on enormous meaning, and words like “the flag” and “freedom” had become revolutionary, the keys to a great future.
It might be, indeed, that this idea of freedom was something that had no limits whatever.
It might begin as a limited thing, simple legal freedom from purchase and sale for the poor black man, and in the end it would become freedom for white men too, freedom also for all of the unguessed potentialities of an amazing country that had hardly begun to dream of its own destiny.
I, for one, refuse to believe that the unguessed potentialities of this amazing country that has hardly begun to dream of its own destiny will let the future of this Country, the future paid for by those who fought and died for this Country from 1775 to the present, might be determined by the current person in office and the current administration.
That person in office and that administration meddle with the Constitution of the United States and We, the people so named at their own peril and I see the day that this sleeping giant rages forward and woe betide those who stood on the wrong side of history.
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