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title: 'David Caldwell Against Political Indifference in Trying Times'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2024-07-26
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2024-david-caldwell-against-political-indifference-in-trying-times
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# David Caldwell Against Political Indifference in Trying Times

“We have therefore come to that trying period in our history in which it is manifest that the American must either stoop under a load of the vilest slavery, or resist their imperious and haughty oppressors; but what will follow must be of the utmost importance to every individual of these United Colonies; and should be the hearty concern of every honest American. – What will be recorded on the following page of our history must depend very much on our conduct; for if we act like the sluggard, refuse, from the mere love of ease and self indulgence, to make the sacrifices and efforts which the circumstances require, or, from cowardice and pusillanimity, shrink from dangers and hardships, we must continue in our present state of bondage and oppression, while that bondage and oppression may be increased until life itself will become a burden; but if we stand up manfully and unitedly in defence of our rights, appalled by no dangers and shrinking from no toils or privations, we shall do valiantly. Our foes are powerful and determined on conquest; but our cause is good; and in the strength of the Lord, who is mightier than all, we shall prevail.” – [**David Caldwell**](/authors/david-stewart-caldwell-sr), *The Character and Doom of the Sluggard* (1776)