And 47 year later Abraham Lincoln put Francis Key Howard, a Baltimore newspaper editor and the grandson of Francis Scott Key, in prison at Fort McHenry. Here's what he wrote about it...
When I looked out in the morning, I could not help being struck by an odd and not pleasant coincidence. On that day forty-seven years before my grandfather, Mr. Francis Scott Key, then prisoner on a British ship, had witnessed the bombardment of Fort McHenry. When on the following morning the hostile fleet drew off, defeated, he wrote the song so long popular throughout the country, "The Star-Spangled Banner". As I stood upon the very scene of that conflict, I could not but contrast my position with his, forty-seven years before. The flag which he had then so proudly hailed, I saw waving at the same place over the victims of as vulgar and brutal a despotism as modern times have witnessed.
He wrote a book about his time in prison titled Fourteen Months in American Bastiles which was published in 1863. Two of the publishers of his book were then arrested.
Isn't it interesting to contemplate the statues of say Thomans Jefferson vs Abraham Lincoln.
What does the Lincolm memorial make you think off?
In my view, it is a testament to the almost religious veneration of tirany. A Lincoln Temple would be a more apt description.
I am not saying to remove it. Statues are evidence of places in our history where we have taken an exit to a different avenue. Sometimes these avenues are a turn for the wrong. Other times , for the best.
Being conscious of our past, contemplating it, by means of statues, may help in evading the worst.
I used to share this on the 4th of July on FB, and they removed them from my timeline. 🤣 I liked it, my Family & friends liked it, FB not so much.
And 47 year later Abraham Lincoln put Francis Key Howard, a Baltimore newspaper editor and the grandson of Francis Scott Key, in prison at Fort McHenry. Here's what he wrote about it...
He wrote a book about his time in prison titled Fourteen Months in American Bastiles which was published in 1863. Two of the publishers of his book were then arrested.
Isn't it interesting to contemplate the statues of say Thomans Jefferson vs Abraham Lincoln.
What does the Lincolm memorial make you think off?
In my view, it is a testament to the almost religious veneration of tirany. A Lincoln Temple would be a more apt description.
I am not saying to remove it. Statues are evidence of places in our history where we have taken an exit to a different avenue. Sometimes these avenues are a turn for the wrong. Other times , for the best.
Being conscious of our past, contemplating it, by means of statues, may help in evading the worst.
I still get tears in my eyes hearing the story behind the our flag. I'm from Maryland, just outside Baltimore & the infamous Ft. McHenry.