Daily Words to Stew On: ‘Liberty, when it begins to take root…’

Veracity Stew’s daily progressive devotional

13th Day of the Year / 353 Days Remaining

“Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.”

~ George Washington, 1st U.S. president (1732-1799)

On this day: 1874 – When unemployed workers demonstrated in New York’s Tompkins Square Park, mounted police charged into the crowd, beating men, women and children indiscriminately with clubs, causing hundreds of casualties. The police commissioner described it as “the most glorious sight I ever saw…”

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