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United We Stand 2020: Part 2 of Hannah Arendt, American Greatness and Constitutio Libertatis

7/20/2019

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PictureGeorge Hammer and Ida Schiekoff's Wedding Day






​Celebrate the Seventh Amendment on 7/20
 
Whatever great means, it includes the idea of something worth passing on.
 
George Hammer, my maternal great-grandfather, was born American from German immigrants.
 
George’s mother was born in Massbach, Bavaria, Germany and immigrated to the United States and Illinois’ Jo Daviess County with her family as a teenager in 1865.
 
George’s father came here as a five-year old from Zeitfeld Province, Germany (which is hard to find on a map) in the early 1850s as part of an immigrant family of five; they stayed with fellow Mennonites in New York for three years before homesteading in Jo Daviess County.

The land both families homesteaded was available because of the end of “Indian” hostilities in Illinois after the Black Hawk War. I’ve published a pamphlet that excerpts an Illinois history book (1878) with some details on how that war started and ended: see Fire-Water Ignites Black Hawk War of 1832 (and other things).

PictureGeorge, Ida and family (around 1920)

George wrote a few letters to a German woman in Canada named Ida Schiekoff; Ida was born in Arnhausen, Germany (in 1945 the village became Lipie, Poland) and immigrated to Canada as an 18 year-old in 1891. The two met by reading the same German newspaper and became pen pals. George then went to meet Ida and her family in Canada a couple of times; they soon got engaged, married, and moved to the family farm in Illinois. They lived a simple farm life, nothing fancier than good shelter and plenty of food, as there wasn’t any extra coin. Money showed up later, in the next generation, when their son and my grandfather, Willis (the child in the picture without a jacket), told me they started making money off the farm by selling surplus milk.

Maybe right there is a glimpse of the constitutional right within the Seventh Amendment and why it is there; it isn’t written for the rich in coin, or they would have used it: it’s there for the poor. It’s also constitutionally connected to the thirty Thousand, as the usurpation has organized the judiciary and our American sense of justice; the time to review (and amend) the Seventh Amendment, thus bringing to life its constitutional social justice bearing, is when We the People are represented according to numbers (say in 2021 or ‘22).

The same commentator that noted Arendt’s Constitutio Libertatis and honoring of the founders, also pointed out that she only thought the founders were a partial success; that is because, according to the commentator, the founders didn’t create space for We the People to participate. I don’t agree and think the evidence, our Constitution, shows otherwise; the thirty Thousand, the Enumeration, and the Seventh Amendment do provide ways for citizens to participate in their government at a “local” federal level via small districts augmented every ten years. It’s the usurpers fault, not the founders, who are keeping We the People from our constitutional greatness: us too, the people, as we haven’t shown vigilance until now.
 
Great means that something is worthy of being passed on, of giving to others as a legacy. The former Germans Hannah Arendt and Ida Schiekoff, and the children of German immigrants, like George Hammer, left us an American legacy. American immigrants are greater than the usurpers, and the usurpation of our right to representation, according to numbers, keeps us from our constitutional legacy … and that ain’t great America.
 
*Next Up: 17 September, US Constitution Day 2019, and Johnny Reb and Gus Yank Revisit Mount Horeb.
 
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Johnny Reb and Gus Yank On Our Way: Washington’s Office

2/22/2019

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PictureJohnny Reb and Gus Yank OOW: Washington's





​Part IX of XIII
 
“… More George Johnny.”
“Builder too.”
“George … working for The Man.”
“King George.”
“That might’ve rubbed.”
“Might’ve.”
“More Earl too.”
“The 4th Earl of Loudoun was George’s commander and governor.”
“Our George or King George?”
“Both.”
“Right.”
“The Earl wasn’t liked much in the colonies Gus.”
“Yet they named a fort for him.”
“Two in fact.”
“Two?”
“One here and one south of here.”
“Where Reb?”

PictureJohnny Reb and Gus Yank OOW: Office







“West of the Appalachian Mountains Yank.”
“Future Tennessee.”
“Cherokee then.”
“Who built that Fort Loudoun?”
“Colonies of Virginia and South Carolina.”
“What happened?”
“Built in 1756, defeated in 1760.”
“Cherokee?”
“Correct.”
“And this Fort Loudoun, George’s?”
“Not much Gus.”
“Sounds familiar.”
“That is soldiering sometimes.”
“Monotonous.”
“Yupper.”
“George was young then.”
“Twenty-four in ’56.”
“You hear that?”
“Do.”
“Let’s step this way Reb.”
“Let’s …”
 
Next Up: 1 March 2019 and part X of the winter series Johnny Reb and Gus Yank On Our Way: Truckin’.
 
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Fire-Water Ignites Black Hawk War of 1832 (and other things)

10/15/2016

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A new 1878 pamphlet
 
The pamphlet Fire-Water Ignites Black Hawk War of 1832 (and other things) is excerpted from The History of Jo Daviess County Illinois, published in 1878 in Chicago by H. F. Kett & Co. The book is a testament from the 19th century about a place called Jo Daviess County; the few pages selected from the 800-page book are about a brief war with the aborigine.
 
Though morality runs through the pamphlet, it’s not a moral tale: it’s more like a story about humans being human.
 
*Next Up: A continuation of the annual fire-water series with Whiskey 222, Saturday 29 October.
 
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Heal Union: Tuscarora Nation and the American English Colonies, 1710-15

5/15/2015

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The Heal Union spring series continues with GOLF.
PictureTuscarora Nation: A Collage










Aborigine Hemp Gatherers


Divide and conquer …

1710: The Tuscarora inhabited parts of the colonies of North Carolina and Virginia. They sent emissaries to Pennsylvania seeking peace. Petitioned complaints included: inability to fetch food and water, safety for their families, and the constant fear of being sold into slavery.

1711: War begins when hostile Tuscarora (allied with the Coree) kill about 70 colonists in North Carolina, wound many others, and destroy property.

1712: The English governor of New York, in writing to his superior, the Lords of Trade, worried that the Tuscarora War was likely to embroil all the colonies. He expressed concern about the French inciting the Five Nations to fulfill their threat to join the Tuscarora.

PictureThe colony of North Carolina
1713: With military aid from South Carolina, 33 white men and 900-allied aborigine, the colony of North Carolina is able to defeat the hostile Tuscarora. In a four-day siege the Tuscarora are decimated at Fort Nooherooka; most survivors seek shelter in the colonies of Virginia and New York.

1714: The leaders of the Five Nations inform the English governor of New York that the Tuscarora have come to shelter themselves with the Five Nations. The aborigine leaders tell the King’s governor that the Tuscarora: “were of us and went from us long ago, and now are returned and promise to live peaceably among us.”

1715: Seventy of the hostile Tuscarora go to the colony of South Carolina to assist against another aborigine people, the Yamasee. Later these Tuscarora asked and received permission to settle their families in South Carolina.

The historic Tuscarora Nation acknowledges three tribes: one of them, the Skarun’ren’, are the Hemp Gatherers.

*Next Heal Union: 29 May and the 150th of Robert E. Lee’s indictment by a federal court for treason: he writes to Grant.

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US Republic, Hebrews and George Washington’s Cleavage

8/17/2014

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PictureFirst US President George Washington ~ by Gilbert Stuart








(Bonus) War Cry Heal Union: The series (7.5 of 10)


George shows some (representation) cleavage.

Constitutional representation is our theme today with George Washington’s political cleavage our focus.

George wrote a Letter to the Hebrew Congregation of Newport (Rhode Island) 224 years ago, 18 August 1790; his words are in response to a kind letter from the congregation. The year of the letter provides a frame for us; 1790 is the first constitutional Enumeration for the former subjects of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations ~ they are now citizens of the United States.

George’s letter has bad and good in it – though that’s not the cleavage. The cleavage is in Washington’s mind; we can sense his humanness and all that goes with it.

The Letter is brief (300 words in 8 paragraphs) and warm; Washington reflects on his visit to Newport and the Revolution; he also  applauds the new Republic and its citizens:

“The citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for having given to mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy – a policy worthy of imitation. All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship.”

Those are fine words there George ~ the promises of “liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship” deserve much reflection, particularly given the state of national and world affairs. Yet it is the applause Washington recommends that is the first cleavage: the United States Republic.

The “enlarged and liberal policy” Washington is noting is part of America’s Exceptionalism: constitutional representation of We the People according to numbers (Article I, Section 2, Clause 3). The Hebrew Congregation of Newport, meaning Jews, were protected and counted as US citizens; that was new and it’s American. We highlighted the anti-Semitism of Europe in the Willy-Nicky Were Willy-Nilly Emperors posting; the tribe of Judah, as Emperor Wilhelm eerily noted, were not welcome in Europe; America said it was okay … which was new … in 1790.

There’s more to this letter and George’s words; he goes on to make comments that are perspectival: things about no toleration of bigotry or persecution in the US. Washington doesn’t write like he’s aware of the aborigine, the enslaved or women absented. We won’t cover them today; they show a second political cleavage though, that, like slavery, needs discussion and light.

Glean from George and take what’s best (and then make it better); his high words regarding citizenship are an example of potential gleanings ~ just like America’s (constitutional) Republic.
~
Next on Ew Publishing's WCHU: Emperor Napoleon, Palm and Hitler’s White Rose, posting on Tuesday, 26 August.
~ Posted by Bryan W. Brickner

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