This Day in History: April 2

I cannot say a Word in Vindication of my Conduct but this, that I had been for Months before, distressed with continual Apprehensions for you and all my Friends without the British Lines—I looked upon All as gone; or that nothing could save you, but a rescinding the Declaration of Independency. Upon this Ground alone, I presumed to speak—not to advise an Act of base Treachery—My Soul would have recoiled from the Thought—not to surrender your Army, or betray the righteous Cause of your Country—but at the Head of that Army, supporting & supported by them, to negociate with Britain for our Constitutional Rights. [More]

What a Duché, which if you read more about the guy, is what I'm going to start calling members of the so-called 'faith community" who have misplaced that faith in an "ominpotent" State.