-Caveat Lector- washington was one of the elites, and should be a hero to them and none other...
here's a short exceprt from a piece of zinn's that points to a little bit of the way washington's army worked during the revolution... from http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Zinn/CampaignWithoutClass.html It may therefore seem surly for us to report that the American Revolution was not a war waged by a united population. The 150 years leading up to the Revolution were filled with conflict, yes, class conflict-servants and slaves against their masters, tenants against landlords, poor people in the cities rioting for food and flour against profiteering merchants, mutinies of sailors against their captains. Thus, when the Revolutionary War began, some colonists saw the war as one of liberation, but many others saw it as the substitution of one set of rulers for another. As for black slaves and Indians, there was little to choose between the British and the Americans. This class conflict inside the Revolution came dramatically alive with mutinies in George Washington's army. In 1781, after enduring five years of war (casualties in the Revolution exceeded, in proportion to population, American casualties in World War II), more than 1,000 soldiers from Pennsylvania-mostly foreign-born, from Ireland, Scotland, Germany-mutinied at Morristown, New Jersey. They had seen their officers paid handsomely, fed and clothed well, while the privates and sergeants were fed slop, marched in rags without shoes, paid in virtually worthless Continental currency, or not paid at all for months. They were abused, beaten, whipped by their officers for the smallest breach of discipline. Their deepest grievance was that they wanted out of the war, claiming their terms of enlistment had expired, and they were kept in the army by force. They were aware that in the spring of 1780 eleven Morristown deserters were sentenced to death but at the last minute received a reprieve, except for one of them, who had forged discharges for 100 men. He was hanged. General Washington, facing by this time 1,700 mutineers (a substantial part of his army), assembled them at Princeton, New Jersey, and decided to make concessions. Many of the rebels were allowed to leave the army, and Washington asked the governors of the various states for money to deal with the grievances of the soldiers. The Pennsylvania line quieted down. But when another mutiny broke out in the New Jersey line, involving only a few hundred, Washington ordered harsh measures. He saw the possibility of "this dangerous spirit" spreading. Two of "the most atrocious offenders" were court-martialed on the spot and sentenced to be shot. Their fellow mutineers, some of them weeping as they did so, carried out the executions. Howard Fast tells the story of the mutinies in his novel The Proud and the Free (Little Brown, 1950). Drawing from the classic historical account by Carl Van Doren, Mutiny in January, Fast dramatizes the class conflict inside the Revolutionary Army. One of his characters, the mutinous soldier Jack Maloney, recalls the words of Thomas Paine and the promise of freedom and says, yes, he is willing to die for that freedom, but "not for that craven Congress in Philadelphia, not for the fine Pennsylvania ladies in their silks and satins, not for the property of every dirty lord and fat patroon in New Jersey. -----Original Message----- From: Bill Richer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 8:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CTRL] Brooklyn Pol Dumps Portrait of 'Old White Man' George Washington This is crazy! The greatest man who ever led this country taken down by a Maxist! -- Washington was a champion of all Americans no matter what race color or creed! ---- Bill WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Brooklyn Pol Dumps Portrait of 'Old White Man' George Washington Fox News | Wednesday, January 16, 2002 Posted on 1/16/02 11:25 AM Pacific by rightwingextremist1776 BROOKLYN, N.Y. — The new Brooklyn borough president says "diversity" is making him take down a portrait of "old white man" George Washington that's hung in the office for years. Brooklyn Beep Marty Markowitz said he will probably hang a portrait of a black person or a woman in his office in place of the country's first president, while moving the Father of Our Country elsewhere in Borough Hall. "I respect history . . . but there has to be a recognition that this is 2002," Markowitz said. "There's not one picture of a person of color, not one kid, not one Latin. Borough Hall should reflect the richness of our diversity." He added, "I wasn't trying to say there's anything bad about all white men. I'm 56. I guess you'd call me an old white man." But not everyone is cheering Markowitz's picture-shuffling plans. "It's absurd," said Republican City Councilman Martin Golden. "Anybody who would want to take down George Washington after Sept. 11 . . . It's a shame." Markowitz — a former state senator known for giving out green bagels on St. Patrick's Day — said he wants suggestions from the Brooklyn Museum and the local historical society for whose portrait he should hang in his office. "How about Thurgood Marshall or Dr. [Martin Luther] King? How about an outstanding woman?" Markowitz asked. "I'm not going to do this alone." Markowitz's new deputy borough president, Yvonne Graham, the first Caribbean woman to hold the title, also is eager to redecorate her office. "I would like to see maybe a portrait of Harriet Tubman or Sojourner Truth," she said. Throughout Brooklyn Borough Hall, there are portraits of white-haired, white men in colonial-style clothes. A few include plaques with a name, but most have no identifications at all. "We don't have a clue who these folks are," Markowitz said. "I'm sure they made great contributions and I will find a place for all of these wonderful portraits. They'll be preserved. "The majority people of Brooklyn are people of color. This building will reflect white folks, black folks, Latin folks and Asian folks, kids and women." *********************** [Unable to display image] This is the kind of man that they took his picture down! George Washington's Seventeen Rules of Life http://www.buyamericanonly.com/thoughts.html#george 1) Act at all times as in the presence of God, and make it the great object in all things to please Him. In order to do this, 2) Seek first of all to gain clear views of His will and with regard to all things to be perfectly conformed to it. In doing this, 3) Cherish no thoughts, indulge no feeling, speak no words, and do no actions, but what you really think, after all the light you can gain, will most honor God, most benefit yourself and others needs, and give you the greatest joy when they come to be exhibited before the assembled universe at the judgement day. 4) Begin and end each day by a season of communion with God, and by a solemn and hearty commitment of yourself and all your interest, temporal and eternal, to His guidance, care and disposal. 5) Daily read, with deep attention and fervent prayer, a portion of the word of God, for the purpose of understanding, believing, and obeying it. 6) Never express or indulge the least degree of unkindness towards any human being, and give no needless pain to any one of the human race, or even of the animal creation. 7) Make it your object to promote the greatest happiness, on the whole, of all upon whom you may have influence, both of the present and all future generation. 8) Regard the hand of God in all the dispensations of His providence, and in whatsoever state He places you, therewith be content. 9) Envy none who are above you, and despise none who are below you: but possess and manifest the utmost goodwill towards all men. 10) Never speak to or feel towards them in a manner that you ought not to wish them, under similar circumstance, to speak to or feel with regard to you. 11) Let all statements and narrations be an exact exhibition of the real truth. 12) Act for God, for the universe, and for eternity; and in such a manner as is adapted to promote the highest good forever. In order to do this, 13) Look habitually to Jesus Christ: let your whole soul be imbued with His spirit, and manifest it in all your actions. 14) Look to the Holy Ghost as the author of all good in man; seek habitually His teaching, His illuminating and purifying influences, that He may dwell in you as His temple, and take full possession of all your powers and talents for Himself. 15) Earnestly desire that He would take of the things of Christ and more and more show them unto you; and carefully avoid everything which tends to hinder you from becoming perfectly like Him. 16) Make it as your meat and drink to do the will of God, and perseveringly have respect to all His commandments. 17) Feel and acknowledge that all the good that you ever have received, that you now receive, or ever will receive is of grace through Jesus Christ; trust in him for all which you need, both for this life and the life to come; rely on his merits, imitate his example, and in view of every blessing give him and the Father and the Holy Ghost all the glory. Thomas Jefferson said the following of Washington: George Washington's Character Monticello Jan 2, 1814 “I knew George Washington intimately and thoroughly; and were I called on to delineate his character, it would be in terms like these: “His mind was great and powerful, his penetration strong, and as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow in operation, being little aided by invention or imagination, but sure in conclusion. Hence the common remark of his officers, of the advantage he derived from councils of war, where hearing all suggestions, he selected whatever was best; and certainly no general ever planned his battles more judiciously. “He was incapable of fear, meeting personal dangers with the calmest unconcern. Perhaps the strongest feature in his character was prudence, never acting until every circumstance, every consideration, was maturely weighed; refraining if he saw a doubt, but when once decided, going through with his purpose, whatever obstacles opposed. “His integrity was most pure, his justice the most inflexible I have ever known, no motives of interest or conscience, of friendship or hatred, being able to bias his decision. He was, indeed, in every sense of the words, a wise, a good, and great man. “His temper was naturally high toned; but reflection and resolution had obtained a firm and habitual ascendency over it. If ever, however, it broke its bonds, he was most tremendous in wrath. “In his expenses he was honorable, but exact; liberal in contributions to whatever promised utility; but frowning and unyielding on all visionary projects and all unworthy projects and all unworthy calls on his charity. His heart was not warm in it's affections; but he exactly calculated every man's value, and gave him a solid esteem proportioned to it. “His person, you know, was fine, his stature exactly what one would wish, his deportment easy, erect and noble; the best horseman of his age, and the most graceful figure that could be seen on horseback. “He wrote readily, rather diffusely, in an easy and correct style. This he had acquired by conversation with the world, for his education was merely reading, writing, and common arithmetic, to which he added surveying at a later day. His time was employed in action chiefly. “On the whole, his character was, in it's mass, perfect, in nothing bad, in few points indifferent; and it may truly be said, that never did nature and fortune combine more perfectly to make a man great, and to place him in the same constellation with whatever worthies have merited from man an everlasting remembrance. “For his was the singular destiny and merit of leading the armies of his country successfully through an arduous war, for the establishment of it's independence; of conducting it's councils through the birth of a government, new in it's forms and principles, until it had settled down into a quiet and orderly train; and of scrupulously obeying the laws through the whole of his career, civil and military, of which the history of the world furnishes no other example...” (A letter written by Thomas Jefferson to Dr Walter Jones concerning George Washington) *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. 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