“May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us in all our several vocations useful here, and in His own due time and way everlastingly happy.” —George Washington (1790)

The Patriot Post’s mission is thoroughly detailed on our About page, but I think it’s framed best and most succinctly in our logo.

Our logo features a single star encircled by 50 smaller ones, conveying that our strength and unity are in “One Nation Under God,” built upon a foundation of the rights of each state, as our Founders intended.

Moreover, that logo features our motto in Latin, as was customary among our Founders: “Veritas vos Liberabit.” Many will immediately recognize that: “The Truth will make you Free” (John 8:32). Rounding out the logo is “Semper Vigilans Fortis Paratus Et Fidelis,” meaning “Always Vigilant, Strong, Prepared, and Faithful.”

The Gospel and New Testament are built on that passage from John and are reflected in many verses, including one I read daily: “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery” (Galatians 5:1).

Our National Foundation is, first and foremost, rooted in the Gospel of Jesus of Nazareth, whose birth we prepare to celebrate this Christ’s Mass. The eternal tenets He set forth are the foundation of American Liberty.

It is in that context that your Patriot Post team rises every day prepared to defend Liberty for all, and especially so as we approach the 250th anniversary of the birth of our nation!

On Monday this week, we commemorated the ratification of our Bill of Rights on 15 December 1791. Those amendments define our most fundamental and irrevocable rights as Americans, enumerated in our Declaration of Independence and enshrined in our Constitution.

But the forces of tyranny are relentless in their effort to undermine those rights, especially freedom of religion, speech, and the press, and the right to keep and bear arms — the latter being the guarantor of all other rights.

On Tuesday, we observed the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, 16 December 1773, when “radicals,” members of a secret organization of American Patriots called the Sons of Liberty, boarded three East India Company ships at Griffin’s Wharf. They threw 342 chests of British East India Company tea into Boston Harbor. This iconic event, in protest of the Crown’s 1773 Tea Act, which imposed a three-pence tax on each pound of tea, seeded the American Revolution. Indeed, as James Madison reflected years later, “The people of the U.S. owe their Independence and their Liberty, to the wisdom of descrying in the minute tax of three-pence on tea, the magnitude of the evil comprised in the precedent.”

At the dawn of the American Revolution, Samuel Adams, a leader of Boston’s Sons of Liberty, wrote: “If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!”

Why would that first generation of American Patriots forgo “the tranquility of servitude” for “the animating contest of freedom”?

The answer to that question defined the timeless spirit of American Patriotism then, just as it defines the spirit of American Patriots today. We are the beneficiaries of generations who pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor “to support and defend” Liberty, and we owe them a great debt of gratitude as we extend that blessing to the next generation.

We are devoted to a cause much larger than our own self-interest. As George Washington wrote: “Our cause is noble; it is the cause of all mankind.”

My own family is descended from generations of American Patriots who have fought in every major conflict since the Revolutionary War. Among our hardened Appalachian ancestors was an early Patriot militiaman, Col. George Gillespie. He, his brothers James and Thomas, their sons, and other relatives formed a gauntlet against British tyranny in what would be the pivotal Battle of Kings Mountain in October 1780. They served with the fierce frontiersman John Sevier, who would later become the first governor of Tennessee after statehood (1796). Some went on to fight with Gen. Francis Marion (the Swamp Fox), providing their own mounts and arms. They then served as militiamen in support of George Washington at Yorktown, until Cornwallis and his British army surrendered on that glorious day of 19 October 1781.

But this legacy is not ours alone. It is the legacy of all American Patriots, whether 10th generation or first. And our ranks are growing every day.

Regarding the greatest threats to Liberty in his day and this day, Benjamin Franklin wrote, “Without Freedom of Thought there can be no such thing as Wisdom; and no such thing as Public Liberty, without Freedom of Speech.”

Our freedoms are under relentless assault.

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I invite you to read more about the history of Christmas in America.

Brothers and Sisters of all ages, during this Christmas season, and every day of the coming year, may God’s peace and blessings be upon you and all those around you.

In the words of George Washington during the bleak winter of 1777 at Valley Forge, when it appeared all would be lost: “We should never despair, our Situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth new Exertions and proportion our Efforts to the exigency of the times.”

Emerging from that dark winter, Washington wrote the following one year later: “The Hand of providence has been so conspicuous in all this, that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more than wicked, that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his obligations.”

With a heart of gratitude for the eternal Hand of Providence, for the Light of the world!

God bless and keep you one and all, and again, Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year!

Semper Vigilans Fortis Paratus et Fidelis
Pro Deo et Libertate — 1776

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