The American Flag

To those who think burning an american flag should be a right need to read..
The American Flag by Henry Ward Beecher 1861
http://books.google.com/books?id=gZYAAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA226&lpg=RA1-PA226&dq=the+american+flag+by+henry+ward+beecher&source=web&ots=OjbsD464OC&sig=kD7Oi82oerN1JZjNckWRldr-qNE&hl=en#PRA1-PA229,M1

"It means Liberty; and the galley slave, the poor oppressed conscript, the downtrodden creature of foreign despotism, sees in the American flad that very promise and prediction of God: 'The people which sat in darkness saw a great light; and to them wheich sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.'"

"...Our Flag carries American ideas, American history, and American feelings."

"...it has gathered and stored cheifly this supreme idea; Divine right of liberty in man. Every color means liberty; every thread means liberty; every form of star and beam or stripe of light means liberty : not lawlessness, not license; but organized institutional iberty, - liberty throughout law, and laws for liberty"

"It is not a painted rag."

--- Oh boy I could copy the whole thing there is some great stuff in there. Take a look for yourself. If you dare.---