In our web site email this morning
From : Gary [delete]
Sent : Friday, March 25, 2005 12:42 AM
To : The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State
Subject : David Barton
Thank You! Thank You! for taking a reasoned approach and analysis
to David Barton and his "Wallbuilders" organization. David Barton has spent
most of his adult life rewriting (revisionist) history, distorting facts,
making statements that have absolutely no documentation and creating
passion in people toward church/state separtion based upon his
mis-understanding and skewed approach to history. He has been rejected by
virtually every known scholar of chuch/state history and the intent of the
founders.
The problem is that people like this represent a danger to our culture
because so many persons buy into it.
I could go on and on but I think you get my point. I could cite instance
after instance, mostly with regard to Thomas Jefferson, but I sense that
you are probably one step ahead of me on that - which I appreciate.
Sincerely, Gary [delete]
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DAVID BARTON CAUGHT IN ERROR (should we say lie) AGAIN
NOW FOR FUN
We caught David Barton in another lie:
The fraud doesn't do his homework, but most don't do their homework. They
don't personally verify things
NOTE:
http://www.wallbuilders.com/resources/search/detail.php?ResourceID=70
James Madison and Religion in Public
by David Barton
[snip]
George Washington provides a succinct illustration. During his
inauguration, Washington took the oath as prescribed by the Constitution
but added several religious components to that official ceremony. Before
taking his oath of office, he summoned a Bible on which to take the oath,
added the words “So help me God!” to the end of the oath, then leaned over
and kissed the Bible. [27] His “Inaugural Address” was filled with numerous
religious references, [28] and following that address, he and the Congress
“proceeded to St. Paul’s Chapel, where Divine service was performed.” [29]
[snip]
[27] 4 Washington Irving, Life of George Washington 475 (New York: G. P.
Putnam & Co., 1857); Mrs. C. M Kirkland, Memoirs of Washington 438 (New
York: D. Appleton & Company, 1870); Charles Carleton Coffin, Building the
Nation 26 (New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1882); etc.
[28] 1 Richardson, Messages and Papers 51-54 (April 30, 1789).
[29] 1 Annals of Congress 29 (April 30, 1789).
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NOW FOR THE FACTS:
26 BUILDING THE NATION. CHAP. L
Flags wave from every window, not only the stars and stripes, but the flags
of all nations-from window, door-way, and the roofs of houses. Never has
there been such a gathering of people in the western hemisphere.
Hotels, private houses, all are full. Fields and pastures are thick
with tents. People from the country spend the night wrapped in blankets
beneath their wagons.
The great day came, April 30th, on which Washington was to be inaugurated.
At nine o'clock in the morning all the church bells rung, and the multitude
thronged the meeting-houses while prayer was offered that the blessing of
Almighty God might rest upon the people, and upon the President whom they
had chosen. Once more the military paraded and marched in procession to
Federal Hall, where, upon the balcony, in presence of a great multitude,
filling Broadway and Pearl Street, thronging every window, and standing
upon all the house-tops, the President swore to uphold the Constitution,
kissing the Bible to manifest his sincerity.
"lt is done." The Chancellor who had administered the oath said it, and up
from the multitude, swelling in mighty chorus, carne the shout, ~ Long live
George Washington, President of the United States!"
With the uttering of that solemn oath the Republic took its place among the
nations.
SOURCE:
BUILDING THE NATION
EVENTS IN THE
HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
FROM THE REVOLUTION TO THE BEGINNING OF
THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES
BY
CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN
AUTHOR OF
"THE BOYS OF '76" "THE STORY OF LIBERTY" "OLD TIMES IN THE COLONIES" ETC.
NEW YORK AND LONDON
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
1900
Copyright, 1882, by Harper & Brothers
Page 26
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Also note
[27] 4 Washington Irving, Life of George Washington 475 (New York: G. P.
Putnam & Co., 1857)
Well, kindly note (but I do have to say here I have seen other sources that
also list the page as being 474 so a whole bunch of people are too lazy to
do their homework and verify)
474 LIFE OF WASHINGTON. [1785.
dances. There were balls in camp, in some of the dark times of the
Revolution. " We had a little dance at my quarters," writes General Greene
from Middlebrook, in March, 1779. "His Excellency and Mrs. Greene danced
upwards of three hours without once sitting down. Upon the whole we had a
pretty little frisk.*
A letter of Colonel Tench Tilghman, one of Washington's
aides-de-camp, gives an instance of the general's festive gayety, when in
the above year the army was cantoned near Morristown. A large company, of
which the general and Mrs. Washington, general and Mrs. Greene, and Mr. and
Mrs. Olney were part, dined with colonel and Mrs. Biddle. Some little time
after the ladies had retired from table, Mr. Olney followed them into the
next room. A clamor was raised against him as a deserter, and it was
resolved that a party should be sent to demand him, and that if the ladies
refused to give him up, he should be brought by force. Washington humored
the joke, and offered to head the party. He led it with great formality to
the door of the drawing-room, and sent in a summons. The ladies refused
to give up the deserter. An attempt was made to capture him. The
ladies came to the rescue. There was a melee ; in the course of which his
Excellency seems to have had a passage at arms with Mrs. Olney. The
ladies were victorious, as they always ought to be, says the gallant
Tilghman.+
* Greene to Col. Wadsworth. MS.
+ This sportive occurrence gave rise to a piece of camp scandal. It
was reported at a distance that Mrs. Olney had been in a violent rage, and
had told Washington that, " if he did not let go her hand she would tear
his eyes out, and that though he was a general, he was but a man."
Mr. Olney wrote to Colonel Tilghman, begging him to refute the
scandal. The latter gave a true statement of the affair, declaring that the
whole was done in jest, and that in the mock contest Mrs. Olney had made
use of no expressions unbecoming a lady of her good breeding, or such as
were taken the least amiss by the general.
1755.] WASHINGTON IN SOCIAL LIFE. 475
More than one instance is told of Washington's being surprised into
hearty fits of laughter, even during the war. We have recorded one produced
by the sudden appearance of old General Putnam on horseback, with a female
prisoner en troupe. The following is another which occurred- at the camp at
Morristown. Washington had purchased a young horse of great spirit and
power. A braggadocio of the army, vain of his horsemanship, asked the
privilege of breaking it. Washington gave his consent, and with some of his
officers attended to see the horse receive his first lesson. After much
preparation, the pretender to equitation mounted into the saddle and was
making a great display of his science, when the horse suddenly planted
his forefeet, threw up his heels, and gave the unlucky Gambado a Somerset
over his head. Washington, a thorough horseman, and quick to perceive the
ludicrous in these matters, was so convulsed with laughter that we are told
the tears ran down his cheeks.*
Still another instance is given, which occurred at the return of
peace, when he was sailing in a boat on the Hudson, and was so overcome by
the drollery of a story told by Major Fairlie of New York, of facetious
memory, that he fell back in the boat in a paroxysm of laughter. In that
fit of laughter, it was sagely pre-
* Notes of the Rev. Mr. Tuttle. MS.
Life of George Washington by Wahington Irving, Vol IV, New York G.P. Putnam
& Co. 321 Broadway 1857 pp. 474-75
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The actual pages covering the inauguration are pages 512-15
The Barton Chronicles
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/bartchro.htm
* Jonathan Dayton and the Ben Franklin Prayer/Chaplain myth
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/franklin.htm
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