Blogging in Real Time: For Your Personal Reference

Good Evening, Fellow Citizens and Patriots!

Welcome to the one and only journal on the Internet that tells of the monumental events in our nation's history... in real time. Yes, you heard me right. This is the one and only Edmund Randolph, reporting live from the Constitutional Convention, the Senate floor and Washington's cabinet meetings. Read the juiciest of juicy political gossip, from the Assumption Plan to Hamilton's extramarital affair! Scandalous! As if it couldn't get even better, it's all firsthand, from history's most talkative witness. Please enjoy!

All Men Are Created Equal...

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

As with any blog, names will keep reoccurring, and for those of you not acquainted with my colleagues and travels, you may always refer back to this page.

Colleagues

President George Washington: The first president of these States United, former Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army, and my boss. He currently lives here in the capital with his wife and step-grandchildren.

Secretary Alexander Hamilton: The Secretary of the Treasury, he is a brilliant multi-tasker, but his ideas are oft-extravagant. At present, he is the head of the Federalist Party. In previous years, he served as an aide-de-camp to General Washington and a colonel in the army. He is by profession a lawyer in New York, and lives in the same with his wife and two children.

Secretary Henry Knox: A former storekeeper in Boston, he ascended to captain of the artillery and bravely brought down the guns from Fort Ticonderoga. The President had appointed him Secretary of War.

Secretary Thomas Jefferson: I am proud to say my cousin is a man of many accomplishments, including: author of the Declaration of Independence; delegate to the Second Continental Congress; a diplomat; author of Notes on The State of Virginia, among others; he currently has a second home here in the capital, but is eternally attached to his Monticello. Unfortunately, his wife died after ten years of marriage, but he still has children from their marriage.

Vice President John Adams: He has often worked with my cousin on many important issues in establishing this nation, from diplomats in Paris to collaboration on the Declaration of Independence. A graduate of Harvard Law School, he worked as a school teacher and later on as a lawyer. A famous case of his is the defense of the British soldiers involved in the massacre in Boston. In later years, he was appointed to the Massachusetts delegation that was sent to the Continental Congress, and was furthermore appointed as minister to France and Great Britain. He resides in the city, during congressional sessions with his wife.

Lady Martha (Patsy) Dandridge Custis Washington: The president's wife of thirty-one years, she had dutifully served alongside him at during the cold winters of the war caring for sick soldiers. She has outlived her first husband and all four children, but is consoled by her surviving grandchildren, two of which live with the president and her in the capital. She is a gracious hostess that entertains guests at weekly levees with her charm and grace.

James Madison: At present, he is a congressman, but has done a great many things in the past. In addition to penning the Federalist Papers, he was an active participant in the debates of our glorious convention, and in years before, took part in state and national assemblies.

Places

New York
Former capital of these States United; burned by the British during the War.

Philadelphia
Current capital of the nation; home to the Pennsylvania State House, site of many momentous events, such as the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution; the President has taken residency in the home of Robert Morris, which is said to be one of the grandest homes in the states.

Williamsburg
The city that I am proud to call my home, as is the College of William and Mary and the Public Hospital. It was, prior to 1780, the capital of Virginia.

As more characters emerge in my posts, you shall see them appear here too!