MDMD *Liberty* (307)

[Doug Millison]

jbor:
>Ah, but what Washington grants Gershom is absolute *liberty* ... even
>though he's not technically "free" in >this society.

Ah, yes, those happy darkies dancing and singing and jes' a-carryin' on to
beat the band back in those days of that little human rights technicality,
slavery, so attractive as practiced by the Father of Our Country, indeed.


"Unfortunately, young people," recalls the Revd, "the word *Liberty*, so
unreflectively  sacred to us today, was taken in those Times to encompass
even the darkest of Men's rights [...] This being, indeed and alas, one of
the Liberties our late War was fought to secure." (M&D, 307)