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“A man’s rights rest in three boxes.
The ballot-box, the jury-box, and the cartridge-box.”
“A man’s rights rest in three boxes. The ballot-box, the jury-box, and the cartridge-box.”
The title comes from a memoir by Frederick Douglass, a self-taught escaped slave who was born two hundred years ago this month. During his life, Douglass was celebrated as one of the 19th century’s most learned, eloquent, and passionate defenders of freedom and individual rights in the classical...
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The title comes from a memoir by Frederick Douglass, a self-taught escaped slave who was born two hundred years ago this month. During his life, Douglass was celebrated as one of the 19th century’s most learned, eloquent, and passionate defenders of freedom and individual rights in the classical liberal tradition.
By the time of his death in 1895, however, that tradition was being rapidly displaced by progressivism, an antithetical philosophy promoting government power over the individual that would dominate American political thought throughout the coming century. The triumph of progressivism over classical liberalism may, in part, explain why Douglass is so woefully neglected as a thinker and as a writer, and it may also explain why—despite the official creation of a federal Frederick Douglass Bicentennial Commission—so little has been done to commemorate the anniversary of his birth.
Fortunately, Douglass’ bicentennial isn’t passing completely unnoticed. This week, the Cato Institute published a new biography by Timothy Sandefur called, Frederick Douglass, Self-Made Man. Here’s Cato’s description:
Born into slavery in 1818, Frederick Douglass rose to become a preeminent American intellectual and activist who, as statesman, author, lecturer, and scholar, helped lead the fight against slavery and racial oppression. Unlike many other leading abolitionists, Douglass embraced the U.S. Constitution, believing it to be an essentially anti-slavery document guaranteeing that individual rights belonged to all Americans, of all races. Furthermore, in his most popular lecture, “Self-Made Men,” Douglass praised those who rise through their own effort and devotion rather than the circumstances of their privilege. For him, independence, pride, and personal and economic freedom were the natural consequences of the equality that lay at the heart of the American dream—a dream that all people, regardless of race, gender, or class, deserved a chance to pursue.
~Snip~Douglass, the former slave who secretly taught himself how to read, would teach the American people a thing or two about the true meaning of the Constitution.
He could still teach us a thing or two. Let’s hope the bicentennial of Frederick Douglass’ birth inspires more people to take an interest in the man and his ideas.Commentary:
Seems this 6 year old article is more timely and appropriate now than when it was written. We are under the rule of a reptilian establishment that seeks to balkanize America and set Americans against one another so that they may loot the treasury. Marxism and Socialism is just a movement to pillage whoever has the most money at one time.
Now the globalist marxists have set their sights on Americans and are importing millions of foreigners to divide subjugate and steal the wealth of all Americans under the guise of fake compassion for their shock troops of invading foreigners. The courts have let Americans down and actively rule against them. While the election of Trump offers hope we must wait and see if Trump can deliver on his promises. The courts have been and are attacking Americans and electing Republicans has not worked so far. What is next?
We have tried jury box and the ballot box and if those fail will Americans be forced to use the cartridge box?
Neo-Marxist Democrats have suppressed or corrupted the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box and allowed crime to increase. Is it no wonder they’re so concerned about regulating the cartridge box?
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