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.
Wednesday, August 5, 2015
Simon Zuni, who was Governor of Isleta in 1864 when canes of authority were presented by President Lincoln. Photographed at Isleta Pueblo, New Mexico, on October 2, 1900.
I'm certain that he knew how to take care of business.
ReplyDeleteAnd roll his own smokes.
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