The Vanishing Republic of Our Fathers

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Underwood was a dinosaur in his own time, a relic of an age when statesmen led and understood the principles of American government, and when the South had a prominent role in the direction of public policy.  Perhaps if Underwood wrote this piece today, he would cite these lines from Jefferson:

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance....In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people....

To quote Underwood, "From here where do we go?"
-Brion McClanahan

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http://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/blog/the-vanishing-republic-of-our-fathers/