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.
Her mother was the daughter of a Cherokee Chief and her father was U.S. Army officer George Washington Paschal who served on Trail of Tears, later a lawyer and editor in Galveston and Austin TX
Surely she had White ancestors, don't you think?
ReplyDeleteHer mother was the daughter of a Cherokee Chief and her father was U.S. Army officer George Washington Paschal who served on Trail of Tears, later a lawyer and editor in Galveston and Austin TX
ReplyDeleteI don't know where you found this information, but at worst it is incorrect and at best it is thoroughly misleading.
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ReplyDeletePer: http://coursesite.uhcl.edu/HSH/Whitec/xhist/TrailTears.htm Brigid is correct. I can't comment on the reliability of the site though.
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