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 Society of the Cincinnati included one of Washington's generals named Arthur St. Clair. After the revolution, he would become the military governor of the Northwest territory that included southwest Ohio. At that time, there were three settlements along the north bank of the Ohio river just opposite the mouth of the Licking river named; Losantiville, North Bend, and Columbia. In 1790 these three combined into one, and governor Arthur St. Clair named the combined settlement after the Society.
And that, my friends, is how the city of Cincinnati got its name.
Accepted absolute power for six days, saved Republic, then gave it up.
ReplyDeleteHence the Society of the Cincinnati honoring General George Washington and his generation.
ReplyDeleteThe Society of the Cincinnati included one of Washington's generals named Arthur St. Clair. After the revolution, he would become the military governor of the Northwest territory that included southwest Ohio. At that time, there were three settlements along the north bank of the Ohio river just opposite the mouth of the Licking river named; Losantiville, North Bend, and Columbia. In 1790 these three combined into one, and governor Arthur St. Clair named the combined settlement after the Society.
DeleteAnd that, my friends, is how the city of Cincinnati got its name.
All I see is a Gatlin hatchet..
ReplyDeleteThe fasces.
DeleteA bundle of wooden rods and an axe bound together by leather thongs. Fasces represented that a man held imperium, or executive authority
That’s a lot of feces for one guy to hold…
DeleteIt was also the symbol of Mussolini's fascism. Good thing he wasn't holding a swastika or the statue would have been destroyed.
DeleteDynamite statue if you ask me.
ReplyDeleteGreek farmer, namesake of Cincinnati Ohio, Patron Saint of Chili 5-Ways.
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