Subject:  American Minute - Sept. 27 - "The Father of the American Revolution"
Date:  Wed, 26 Sep 2007 20:11:22 -0500
American Minute with Bill Federer

September 27

  Crying "no taxation without representation," he instigated the Stamp
Act riots and the Boston Tea Party.

After the "Boston Massacre," he spread Revolutionary sentiment with
his Committees of Correspondence.

Known as "The Father of the American Revolution," Samuel Adams, who
was born SEPTEMBER 27, 1722, called for the first Continental
Congress and signed the Declaration.

A cousin of second President John Adams, Samuel Adams wrote in The
Rights of Colonists, 1772:

"Among the natural rights of Colonists are: First, a right to life;
Secondly, to liberty; Thirdly, to property; together with the right
to defend them...

The supreme power cannot justly take from any man any part of his
property without his consent."

As Governor of Massachusetts, Samuel Adams wrote to James Warren,
February 12, 1779:

"A general dissolution of the principles and manners will more surely
overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common
enemy.

While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but once they
lose their virtue, they will be ready to surrender their liberties to
the first external or internal invader."

Samuel Adams concluded:

"If we would enjoy this gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous
people."



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