Heidi Li Feldman on Nostr: "[Y]ou and I are the executors of the testament handed down by those who gathered in ...

"[Y]ou and I are the executors of the testament handed down by those who gathered in this historic hall 186 years ago today. For they gathered to affix their names to a document which was, above all else, a document not of rhetoric but of bold decision. It was, it is true, a document of protest--but protests had been made before. It set forth their grievances with eloquence--but such eloquence had been heard before. ... 3/