The
generous mind, that has adequate ideas of the inherent rights of
mankind and knows the value of them, must feel its indignation rise
against the shameful traffic that introduces slavery into a country
which seems to have been designed by providence as an asylum for those
whom the arm of power had persecuted and not as a nursery for wretches
stripped of every privilege which heaven intended for its rational creatures, and reduced to a level with—nay, become themselves—the mere goods and chattels of their masters. 3
Sir, by the eternal principles of natural justice, no master in the
State has a right to hold his slave in bondage for a single hour; but
the law of the land, which (however oppressive and unjust, however
inconsistent with the great groundwork of the late Revolution and our
present frame of government) we can not in prudence or from a regard to
individual rights abolish, has authorized a slavery as bad or perhaps
worse than the most absolute, unconditional servitude that ever England
knew in the early ages of its empire, under the tyrannical policy of the
Danes, the feudal tenures of the Saxons, or the pure villanage of the
Normans.William Pinkney (March 17, 1764 – February 25, 1822)
http://www.bartleby.com/268/8/19.html
William
Pinkney (March 17, 1764 – February 25, 1822) was an American statesman
and diplomat, and the seventh U.S. Attorney General.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Pinkney(Amanda Lodge 12, Annapolis, MD)
“I’m
conscious of race whenever I’m writing, just as I’m conscious of class,
religion, human psychology, politics — everything that makes up the
human experience. I don’t think I can do a good job if I’m not paying
attention to what’s meaningful to people, and in American culture, there
isn’t anything that informs human interaction more than the idea of
race.”
Duane McDuffie (February 20, 1962 – February 21, 2011)
The world is in your hands, now use it.
Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins, LVO (born January 30, 1951)
(SOHO Lodge No. 3)
Up men! And to your posts! And let no man forget today, that you are from Old Virginia!
George Edward Pickett (January 16, or 25, 1825 – July 30, 1875)
George
Edward Pickett was a career United States Army officer who became a
general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He
is best remembered for his participation in the futile and bloody
assault at the Battle of Gettysburg that bears his name, Pickett's Charge.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Pickett
(Dove Lodge 51, Richmond, VA)
Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (18 July 1918 - 5 December 2013)
"Fred Pabst Jr. was to skiing what Dr. Spock was to babies."
Gov. Thomas Salmon (Vermont)
Fred
Pabst Jr. (November 3, 1869 - March 1, 1977) was the heir to the Pabst
fortune, ski enthusiast and creator of several ski resorts.
http://www.newenglandskihistory.com/biographies/pabstfred.php
( Lafayette Lodge 265, Milwaukee)
