1852: “This, for the purpose of this celebration, is the Fourth of July. It is the birthday of your National Independence, and of your political freedom. This, to you, is what the Passover was to the emancipated people of God. It carries your minds back to the day, and to the act of your great deliverance; and to the signs, and to the wonders, associated with that act, and that day.”
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Trumplings triggered by NPR’s July 4 tweets of the Declaration of Independence
NPR celebrated July 4 by tweeting the Declaration of Independence, one line at a time: when they got to “A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people,” America’s fragile right-wing broflakes went berserk, unhinged by reality’s well-known liberal bias.
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