Thomas Jefferson The Blood Of Patriots Analysis

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Thomas Jefferson – The Blood of Patriots If you had the chance to lead an uprising against a government, would you do it? What would you feel so passionately about you could raise an army, gather up your “arms” and fight for your rights? Could you actually do it? Many people in this time era think they can. They feel the government is in need of a major overhaul, so they take up their “arms” and begin to wage an uprising. In this, they quote the portion of a letter from Thomas Jefferson, but are they thinking correctly, or taking the sentence out of context? Thomas Jefferson was a great man, a great thinker and a good president. When he wrote the famous line in his letter to William Stephens Smith on November 13, 1787, I feel he meant it in a very different context than it is taken today. Here is a portion of the letter:
“Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon & pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to …show more content…
Yes, the government was new, but people needed to remember THEY had the voice in government and need to stay alert. The uprising Jefferson was alluding to between the lines of the letter was the Shay’s Rebellion, an uprising that had been in Massachusetts earlier that year. Daniel Shay had led 4000 “troops” in an uprising on an armory to seize control, the weapons and then overthrow the government. It failed. (huffingtonpost.com). This was the first uprising since the Americas were formed, but it reminded people of where they stood. Shay might have not had the correct information, and because of this, felt strongly enough the government was forcing economic and civil injustices. But, this rebellion seems to have shaped our country and our constitution into what it is
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