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.
The edges on the openings look like they would fray the hell out of the rope. I'm guessing that's a model, not the real thing.
ReplyDeleteThat is what I am thinking. A couple fewer turns around the drum might help.
DeleteThe plates are upside down.
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