Subject:  American Minute - Oct. 26 - Massachusetts' Minutemen
Date:  Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:37:41 -0500
American Minute with Bill Federer

October 26

  On OCTOBER 26, 1774, the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts
reorganized their defenses with one-third of their regiments being
"Minutemen," ready to fight at a minute's notice.

These citizen soldiers drilled on the parade ground, many times led
by a deacon or pastor, then went to church for exhortation and
prayer. The Provincial Congress charged:

"You...are placed by Providence in the post of honor, because it is
the post of danger...The eyes not only of North America and the whole
British Empire, but of all Europe, are upon you.

Let us be, therefore, altogether solicitous that no disorderly
behavior, nothing unbecoming our character as Americans, as citizens
and Christians, be justly chargeable to us."

The Provincial Congress issued a Resolution to Massachusetts Bay,
1774:

"Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each
individual...

Continue steadfast, and with a proper sense of your dependence on
God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to
take from us."

Boston patriot Josiah Quincy stated:

"Under God, we are determined that wheresoever, whensoever, or
howsoever we shall be called to make our exit, we will die free men."



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