And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Saturday, September 6, 2014
Assiniboine Warrior, a Sioux Subgroup, by H.T. Marsh (ca. 1890)
Have scalps, will travel.... (reads the card of a brave)
ReplyDeleteYou can just picture him astride his painted pony. Beautiful photograph.
ReplyDeleteThey are all remarkable photographs. An amazing time just over a hundred years ago.
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