Sam Adams

"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom,
go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you.
May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." Samuel Adams

"That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms ... " -- Samuel Adams, Debates and Proceedings in the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, at 86-87 (Pierce & Hale, eds., Boston, 1850)







Monday, December 24, 2012

Christmas Eve 2012 with Image of "The Christmas Coach 1795" Painting by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris shows Colonial Philadelphia

This painting by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (1863 to 1930) depicts "The Christmas Coach 1795".
The scene is Christmas Eve in colonial Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at Market and Second. The American colonists are in their 20th year of independence. Merry Christmas to All and To All a Good Night. Peace on Earth and Goodwill to All - From Pirates and Patriots Christmas Even 2012

From Wikimedia Commons: "View of coach on High (Market) Street at Second, Philadelphia, on Christmas Eve, with woman getting off, in front of the old courthouse. Postcard published by The Foundation Press, Inc., 1932. Reproduction of oil painting from series: The Pageant of a Nation."
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/The_Christmas_coach_1795_cph.3g07156.jpg
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