Fraternity-Testvériség, 1966 (44. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1966-01-01 / 1. szám
10 FRATER NI TY IT’S GOOD TO KNOW WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON'S NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION On January 1, 1831 — 135 years ago — a New Year’s resolution, famous in American history, was published in the first issue of the Liberator, an anti-slavery paper. The resolution, written by William Lloyd Garrison, the noted abolitionist, was as follows: “I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice. I am in earnest — I will not equivocate — I will not retreat a single inch — and I will be heard.” So he stated his resolve to fight for the eradication of slavery. On another New Year’s Day, 32 years later — January 1, 1863 — Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation went into effect. — (A. C. N. S.) UTAH — "THE BEEHIVE STATE" On January 4, 1896 — 70 years ago — Utah, our 45th state, was admitted to the Union. It was settled by the Mormons in 1847. The Latter-Day Saints (as Mormons are officially called) number nearly 70 percent of all church membership in the state. Salt Lake City, the capital, has several structures built by the Mormon Church, among them the Tabernacle, seating 8,000 people, and the Temple. One of the Rocky Mountain states, the greater part of Utah is a high plateau. The Great Salt Lake, situated to the northwest, has no known outlet and has a salt density second only to the Dead Sea. — (A. C. N. S.) "THE FOUR FREEDOMS" On January 6, 1941 — 25 years ago — President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in a speech to Congress, defined what he termed as the essential “Four Freedoms”. They were: Freedom of speech and expression; freedom of worship; freedom from want, and freedom from fear. “Four Freedoms” became a designation applied to the general world aims of American policy during World War II. The fourth of these, freedom from fear, translated into world terms, according to President Roosevelt, “means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of aggression against any neighbor . . . anywhere in the world.” — (A. C. N. S.) "COMMON SENSE" — THE FAMOUS PAMPHLET OF REVOLUTIONARY TIMES On January 9, 1776 — 190 years ago — a pamphlet was published which helped shape American history. Its title was “Common Sense”, and it was written by Thomas Paine, an Englishman who had been in this country less than two years. It analyzed clearly the situation and grievances of the American colonies, and called for a declaration of independence. Within three months after the publication of the pamphlet, 120,000 copies had been sold. The total sale of “Common Sense” has been estimated at half a million copies — and this in a country which at the time had only some three million inhabitants. Six months after the pamphlet appeared, the Declaration of Independence was signed at Philadelphia. — (A. C. N. S.)
