Blog #4 - Refuting Patrick Henry

Sir, let me quote A.J Muste by saying “there is no way to peace, peace is the way”. By emphasizing this quote, I would like to ask to the ones present, is there any hope? Yes there is! Minutes before, we heard Mr. Patrick Henry say that the only way to peace and liberty is by war. Sir, I have to disagree to such violent and immature mind that has given us this thought. May I ask to Mr. Henry what he has asked to us, “Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty?” Is this the way you are able to see in a wise way what is occurring to us? I believe not so. I may say that hope may be the only thing left to accomplish the goal that we have proposed. We have to look forward and keep with perseverance in search of a way to finish this hatred between people. Violence, Sir, is not the way to bring to an end this situation we are all in. Fighting has been the way to solve many problems, but I believe that it should not be the one today. Sir, we shall all bring upon an idea, a purpose and a proposal so that this extreme dislike ends. By following Mr. Henry’s idea, will we get what we want? No, war can be lost. Lives can be lost, but the most important of all, respect will be totally vanished.

Do we have the intellectual minds to say that there are other ways? We have the choice! There will always be a candle that guides us when there is no light! Sir, we shall love our people, we shall pretend to solve our problems by arguments not through violence. I may be in the correct opposition by saying that what Mr. Henry has proposed to us is thoughtless. Mr. Henry has only encountered with his ideas and what he believes of life to be, but there will always be people that prefer life without liberty that death with broken hearts. Mr. Henry, are you merciful of the people that will back you up? Are you really sacrificing their lives for a stupid idea?  Do you care about them enough to protect their families by not letting the warrior fall? I believe this is not the case. You cannot be the hand that keeps that sword from crossing over people chests, so I request you back up and retreat from what you have said. Lets end this war that never came to be! We are wise man that can come up with a wise idea that benefits not one but all of us, so lets begin! Thank you.