{"id":1645,"date":"2014-07-04T21:13:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T21:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2014\/07\/04\/circumstances-of-cruelty-perfidy\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:24:15","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:24:15","slug":"circumstances-of-cruelty-perfidy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=1645","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;circumstances of Cruelty &#038; perfidy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11677,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/dictionary.reference.com\\\/browse\\\/perfidy?s=t&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/dictionary.reference.com\\\/browse\\\/perfidy?s=t&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11678,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.archives.gov\\\/exhibits\\\/charters\\\/declaration_transcript.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nI will admit to being thrilled by the archaic language of the Declaration of Independence. One of my favorite words in the Declaration &#8211; beyond that of independence &#8211; is the word perfidy.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i><a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/perfidy?s=t\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">per\u00b7fi\u00b7dy[pur-fi-dee]<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><b>noun, plural per\u00b7fi\u00b7dies.<\/b><br \/>\n1.<br \/>\ndeliberate breach of faith or trust; faithlessness; treachery: perfidy that goes unpunished.<br \/>\n2.<br \/>\nan act or instance of faithlessness or treachery.<\/p>\n<p><b>Origin:<\/b><br \/>\n1585\u201395;  &lt; Latin perfidia  faithlessness, equivalent to perfid ( us ) faithless, literally, through (i.e., beyond the limits of) faith ( per- per- + fid ( \u0113s ) faith + -us  adj. suffix) + -ia -y3<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archives.gov\/exhibits\/charters\/declaration_transcript.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">From the list of&nbsp; injuries and usurpations<\/a> and other sources of aggrievement submitted to a &#8220;candid world&#8221; comes this one:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat<br \/>\nthe works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of<br \/>\nCruelty &amp; perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally<br \/>\nunworthy of the Head of a civilized nation.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jefferson did have a way with words. <\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will admit to being thrilled by the archaic language of the Declaration of Independence. One of my favorite&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[128],"class_list":["post-1645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-declaration-of-independence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9926,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645\/revisions\/9926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}