Page View
Ratification of the Constitution by the states: Delaware. Microform supplement
([1978])
Rodney, Thomas, 1744-1811
Thomas Rodney to John Parke, Poplar Grove, 22 November 1787, pp. 177-185
Page 177
177 2 5 Thomas Rodney to John Parke, Poplar Grove, 22 November 178 Can You with all your Skill [discern?] Or from Presient wisdom Learn Why all the Whigs to (Lucre Sold) Worship The Tory Idol, Gold? Prefering the fell, love of pence To Virtue, Honor, Glory, Sense? Does Moses Linger on the mountain, In raptures with lov's glorious fountain, Too long engag'd in their own Cause For them to wait his ruling Laws That they provoke the worlds dread laugh, By worshiping fool Aron's Calf? And Why their bards Still Seek the nine At great Dianas Silver Shrine? Has not mad Trumbuls pen undone The freedom gaind by Washington Persuaded all these mighty States That Heaven and the ruling fates
Content is in the Public Domain