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.
Puffing opium? What's that?
ReplyDeleteI believe it is a pipe shaped cigarette holder. They were kind of a thing from the 1880's to around 1910.
ReplyDeletePeople smoke cigarettes from kiseru (Japanese pipe) in such a fashion. And kiseru do look like opium pipes
ReplyDeleteSad ending for the family
ReplyDeletename a sympathetic Bolshevik, I guess. and it got worse.
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