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who saw to it that those who did not display the necessary revolutionary mentality were? properly punished. The rebel Continental Congress established "Associations" whose purpose was to locate the loyalists and turn their names over to the local vigilante group to be dealt with in the manner they deemed proper in each colony. If the accusation was one of giving information to government agents, the traitor to liberty was hanged by the neck or dealt with in some other terminally appropriate manner.
Pray the Redcoats Out?
Even religious leaders were not exempt from the patriotic purges that cleansed away supporters of the king. In the instance of preachers who failed to support the cause of liberty (or who had forgotten that David slew Goliath rather than turning the other cheek and praying for him) being run out of town on a rail in the glowing light of flames from their quickly disappearing church was considered leniency. Others were forced to flee to England or Canada in fear of their lives. 9
By the end of the conflict in 1781, for every government redcoat killed on the battlefield, seventy loyalists had been driven from their homes and forced to settle in England or Canada, totaling over one hundred thousand people. There is no estimate of the number of those who were "just" driven from their homes.
The government and its "friends" accused the revolutionary freedom fighters (whom they often called "The Sons of Anarchy") of "committing the most shocking outrages" and of "daily invasions upon private property" while led by men who were "well-known incendiaries and traitors;" whose chief purpose in life was to commit "crimes against the constitution:11 authority of the state. ,,10 (Historically, governments which have oppressed and abused their citizens justify their actions based on the "law" or "constitutional authority").
No doubt had the effort to overthrow the government been unsuccessful1 the Founding Fathers and their citizen supporters would have been hanged by "the friends of government," as the very worst sort of traitors and terrorists.
The Spirit of '76
In summary, while Washington's determined and skillful leadership of the army no doubt made victory possible, it did not assure it. The Spirit of '76 - a massive campaign of terror directed by patriotic citizens against all those who supported the government - was the deciding factor that brought freedom to America.
American constitutional liberty was born in mob pressure, fostered by secret societies, nurtured during seven years of intimidating violence and institutionalized at the expense of well over a hundred thousand people.
With this American history in mind, one who is faithful to the ideas of the Founding Fathers of this nation can have nothing but contempt and suspicion of the motives (or ignorance) of those people both within and without the government who would condemn citizens of today "for taking the
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