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Heal Union: 240th Lexington, Concord and Free Speech

4/19/2015

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The Heal Union spring series continues with ECHO.
PictureRalph Waldo Emerson: 1803/Boston -1882/Concord








His Majesty’s subjects had cannon

Revere and Dawes make it to Lexington and meet with two of the King’s subjects under the threat of arrest for their speech, Samuel Adams and John Hancock. It was decided the force approaching Lexington, 700 British Regulars, was more than an arrest party; the group thought Concord should be warned and Revere, Dawes and a third rider, Prescott, headed down the road to Concord. Without getting far, they ran into a British security patrol; Revere and Dawes were stopped while Prescott evaded and continued on to Concord.   

Lexington is where the shot heard round the world was fired; it’s not known who fired the shot, nor does it matter. What happened on 19 April 1775, peasant farmer colonist crazed with notions acting on impulse, set in motion an unknown force. That day 240 years ago didn’t make anything really; it set in motion, like a cannon perhaps, a set of notions and feelings that churned into things we know, like the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution.

The Dominion had had rebellion before, most notably in the English Civil War (1642-51). Let’s just say that one ended poorly, with both sides bitter, mad and revengeful.

“The shot heard round the world” is a kindling metaphor that still lives, one that is still alive, alive with kindred notions churning their way into words … just like those feelings long ago.

On this green bank, by this soft stream,
We set to-day a votive stone;
That memory may their deed redeem,
When, like our sires, our sons are gone.


*Next Heal Union: 8 May and 400 years ~ Elector of Brandenburg, John Sigismund, House of Hohenzollern (same as 1915 Germany) and Representing the Unrepresented.

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Heal Union: 240th Revere, Dawes and the Talk of His Majesty’s Subjects

4/18/2015

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The Heal Union spring series continues with DELTA.
PictureEmerson's Concord Hymn and The Shot Heard: 1925 US 5 Cent Stamp













PictureBattle of Concord Memorial
By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard round the world.


Why’d they ride?

The King had had enough. He told Parliament there’s trouble in Massachusetts: the subjects are meeting and not listening to us.

Parliament had had enough. In February 1775 they told the King, very humbly of course: “we find that a part of your Majesty’s subjects, in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, have proceeded so far to resist the authority of the supreme Legislature, that a rebellion at this time actually exists within the said Province.”

Some of His Majesty’s subjects in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay had had enough. On April 18th 1775, two subjected dudes named Revere and Dawes rode through the night to warn the countryside: the Redcoats were coming for their guns because the subjects wouldn’t shut up and listen – you know – to His Majesty and the supreme Legislature (the one in London).

“The shot heard round the world” is from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s commemorative poem, the Concord Hymn. Before the world heard their shot, His Majesty had heard their word.

Subjective shots because of spirited words: time to ride …

Spirit, that made those heroes dare,
To die, and leave their children free,
Bid Time and Nature gently spare
The shaft we raise to them and thee.


Next Heal Union: tomorrow, 19 April and the 240th Lexington, Concord and Free Speech.

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Synchronicity: Lee, Lincoln and Saving Our Republic

4/15/2015

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The Heal Union spring series continues with CHARLIE.
PictureLincoln in 1858










You fell into our arms
We tried but there was nothing we could do


After the surrender on the 9th of April, Lee met with Grant on the 10th; they talked for half an hour about the other Confederate forces still in the field. On the 12th Lee broke camp at Appomattox and started for Richmond; he bivouacs with Longstreet (his “Old War Horse”) in the evening and it would be the last time they spend together.

By the 14th Lee reaches his brother’s farm in Powhatan County; the house is full so Lee insists on sleeping in his tent. As Lee sleeps in his tent for the last time, Lincoln attends the theater and is shot.

On the 15th Lee rides into a burned Richmond and witnesses the damage. He rode by Bell Isle prison camp, now deserted of federal prisoners, and through a city-mile leveled by fire. A crowd had gathered and followed him (with applause and appreciation) to a place to stay, 707 East Franklin Street. Lee turned his horse over to an aide, entered a gate, and climbed a few steps; there he paused, bowed politely, and entered the house. Lincoln died on the 15th at 7:22 a.m.

PictureLee and staff: 16 April 1865
Anti-Republic energy killed Lincoln; they tried to kill the Republic by dividing it: they failed.

Like Lee, Lincoln appears to be someone you wanted on your side; in this case, unlike Lee, Lincoln lived his life for the Republic.


Nothing we could do
All evidence has been buried
All tapes have been erased
But your footsteps give you away




*Next Heal Union on 18 April: 240th Revere, Dawes and the speech of His Majesty’s subjects.

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Usurpation Day 2015: 150th Appomattox ~ Lee, Grant and the Aztec Club

4/9/2015

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The Heal Union spring series continues with BRAVO.
PictureGrant and Lee
"True, This! -- Beneath the rule of men entirely great
The pen is mightier than the sword."

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 1839

Virginian James Madison wrote of the pen’s might in December 1792 while discussing Republic and Anti-Republic virtues. He noted that during the Revolution there were patriots and loyalists. Then there were federalists and anti-federalists during the forming of the US Constitution. At the beginning of the Republic, he noted a new division, one between republican and anti-republican values: he didn’t know or try to answer the duration of the third division.

On 9 April 1792, Madison was present in the US House of Representatives when the pen proved mightier than the sword, though in a constitutionally negative way. The House voted in favor of usurpation and made an edit – not a constitutional amendment – changing the terms of representation from “thirty Thousand” to “thirty-three” thousand (Journal of the House of Representatives, 1:570).

On 9 April 1865, Confederate General Robert E. Lee signed a surrender agreement with the Republic and General Ulysses S. Grant. Lee even made an edit – added the missing word “exchanged” – to the surrender document.

Grant and Lee had both served in the US Army during the Mexican War and were also founding members of the Aztec Club of 1847. This was a social/drinking club in Mexico City while the US Army was there in occupation. Of the 160 founding members, 72 went on to become generals in the Republic’s Civil War.

The pen is mightier than the sword: Grant and Lee stopped firing lead and started writing words to each other, which, as Madison noted, is a republican virtue.

“Behold the arch-enchanters wand! — itself is nothing! -- But taking sorcery from the master-hand to paralyse the Cæsars, and to strike the loud earth breathless! — Take away the sword -- States can be saved without it!”

*Next Heal Union on 15 April: 150th Lincoln shot on the 14th and dies on the 15th as Lee returns to Richmond.

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Heal Union 2015: The Spring Series

4/8/2015

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PictureShadows Heal Union 2015

An Ew Publishing Series

Spring Offensive: Represent

MARCH
NOTHING
21 March 2015
Constitutional Love Fever: Gus Kotka, Johnny Reb and Heal Union 2015

APRIL
ALFA
2 April 2015
150th Richmond Burns, A.P. Hill Dies and Internecine Wars

BRAVO
9 April 2015
150th Appomattox: Lee, Grant and the Aztec Club ~ Usurpation Day 2015

CHARLIE
15 April 2015
150th Lincoln shot on the 14th and dies on the 15th as Lee returns to Richmond

DELTA
18 April 2015
240th Revere, Dawes and the speech of His Majesty’s subjects

ECHO
19 April 2015
240th Lexington, Concord and Free Speech

MAY
FOXTROT
8 MAY 2015
1615 and 400 years ~ Elector of Brandenburg, John Sigismund, House of Hohenzollern (same as 1915 Germany) and the Unrepresented

GOLF
15 May 2015
300th 1715 and the English Colonies

HOTEL
29 May 2015
150th Lee indicted by a federal court for treason: he writes to Grant

JUNE
INDIA
13 June 2015
150th Grant agrees with Lee’s interpretation: no trials (and no pardon)

JULIETT
17 June 2015
240th Bunker Hill and Thomas Knowlton

KILO
18 June 2015
200th Napoleon’s German Waterloo in Belgium

LIMA
19 June 2015
150th Juneteenth and Aesop

*Next Heal Union: Tomorrow, 9 April, with the 150th Appomattox: Lee, Grant and the Aztec Club ~ Usurpation Day 2015.

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Heal Union: Richmond Burns, AP Hill Dies and Internecine Wars

4/2/2015

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Heal Union #2: Ew Publishing's Spring 2015 Series
Picture28 March 1865 ~ The Peacemakers, by George P.A. Healy (1868)




















It’s time to bury another brotha nobody cry. 

The Peacemakers painting depicts the 28 March 1865 meeting between the Union high command. Present were General Sherman, General Grant, President Lincoln and Admiral Porter. The Union leaders met on the steamer River Queen; Grant had invited Lincoln to the Richmond area to discuss the war and Sherman had arrived (from North Carolina) and joined by coincidence. From the time of the meeting, Richmond falls in less than a week, Lee surrenders to Grant in less than two, and Lincoln is dead in less than three.

Picture
The map shows the Union advance on the Confederate earthworks south of Petersburg on April 2nd. Confederate General Robert E. Lee is awoken to an alarm; Union soldiers have assaulted and broken through the line. In the fog a line of soldiers can be seen, maybe a mile away, though whether friend or foe is not clear. General Ambrose Powell Hill is there and rides off to recon.  

In the center of the map you’ll see Hill’s name; that’s about where he was killed, as he and another rider ordered two Union soldiers to surrender – the soldiers didn’t surrender. Instead, General A.P. Hill was shot, fell from his horse, and died.

As day broke, Lee ordered a retreat, one that would last a week and lead to the fall of Richmond and the end of 48 months of war.

PictureAP Hill: 9 November 1825 - 2 April 1865

Hill demanding surrender of the Union soldiers shows his character, and that of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. There were more than just two soldiers Hill ran into that foggy morning: there were hundreds before him and yet the West Pointer demanded their surrender.

He was like that: it’s called an internecine spirit. Internecine doesn’t just mean a struggle within; it really means a struggle until death.

Hill died 150 years ago today yet his spirit, that fighting indomitable spirit, lives on in the US Army. Hill is one of a hand-full of rebel generals to be honored with the name of a 21st century fort. Thousands of US military have trained at Fort A.P. Hill, myself included, since its beginnings in 1941.

To be so honored by the US Army, after fighting it to the death, says something more than one might think. It’s not just a name; there’s something about Hill’s determination against all odds, to the end, that seduces.    

Life goes on – yes it does.

*Next Heal Union 2015: 8 April with the posting of the schedule and then again on 9 April, the 150th anniversary of Appomattox and Usurpation Day 2015.

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