Here is what went out this week.
Monday ~ Equality is not sameness
First Principles · 5 October 2026
When the men who taught the Founders said equal, and when the states wrote equal into their declarations of rights, they were talking about a boundary as well as liberty. No man is born above another in the eyes of the Great Creator. They were not talking about equal purses, equal skills, or a government office that levels the field by taking from one neighbor to dress another. Locke left room for age, virtue, and merit. Sidney left room for the fact that free men are not interchangeable parts.
Read it here: First Principles — Equality is not sameness
Wednesday ~ Kings Mountain
They Lived It · 7 October 2026
On 7 October 1780 the Overmountain militia men climbed a wooded ridge in South Carolina. They assembled themselves from the western waters and the Carolina counties. Free people who will only move when a distant office blesses the move are already tenants. The newspapers carried it the same way they carried Yorktown. Those households that never saw the ridge read about it when they articles were given to them.
Read it here: They Lived It — Kings Mountain
Friday ~ The batteries open at Yorktown
This Day · 9 October 2026
On the afternoon of 9 October 1781 the French battery opened at three o’clock and the American battery joined at five. Washington’s diary gives the French the honor of the first fire. Cornwallis wrote that the fire continued incessant until the guns on his left were silenced. The same day the headquarters paper counted saucissons, fascines, and palisades. Six years earlier Congress had voted two swift vessels. The seed planted in 1775 was still growing when the batteries spoke.
Read it here: This Day — The batteries open at Yorktown
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