The Melting Potty – First of a Series
Let’s get something straight.
“E pluribus unum” – from the many, one – were words to memorialize 13 original colonies forging themselves into a unified Constitutional Republic. It had nothing whatsoever to do with a “Melting Pot” of ethnicities coming to America and becoming one people. There is no such thing as an American Tribe. At least not a white or black one. Americans are free agents. We’re on our own – economically and politically. Even this recent “America First” and MAGA movement is horseshit. Here it’s all about the “Golden Rule” – he with the gold, rules. In America, money talks – and Bullshit walks.
Premise: “We” Americans are not a Tribe. Our country was not intended by the founding fathers to be a refuge or incubation chamber for the birthing of a cohesive “Tribe” of people.
Our Founding Fathers were Englishmen.
Their Tribe was Anglo-Saxon. They were white, had common ancestors – even extended family – and were linked by social, economic, religious and blood ties. They had a common culture and dialect, a shared history. In Colonial towns, early colonists hailed from common clans, a shared ancestry from a definable geographic location – a village, town or shire in England.
Their language, kinship, and identity were – quintessentially – English. If they were brought before a Magistrate for violating a law, it was an English law (or early colonial variant thereof) and the Jury system they faced was the English Jury process that was essentially transplanted whole from the old country. They were a community lifted from one geography and deposited in another.
They were Englishmen. Or, as some would say, British. We can drift into the weeds and talk about the subcategories of peoples on those British Islands – Jutes, Picts, Celts, Scots, Welsh, etc. – but the point here is simple: not counting a few Frenchmen and Germans walking around, before 1776 the Colonies were Brits.
Then came the Revolutionary War. The American Declaration of Independence was a political divorce – not a biological or cellular one. The social division of their traditional society didn’t change. They became Englishmen devoted to an American political ideal: Republican Government – not Monarchy. Eventually Americans started to refer to themselves as “Americans” – because there were so many other ethnicities around: Germans, Frenchmen, Spanish, Native Americans.
In July of 1776, the Continental Congress appointed a committee to design the “Great Seal” of the United States of America. Seals were a big deal back then; all official documents, from Land Deeds to International Treaties, had to bear a Seal signifying an Official Imprimatur or “approval”. A Seal made an official document “Solemn” and unimpeachable “Best Evidence” in a Court of Law. In the years before Blockchain and digital verifications, a big, pressed, sometimes waxed and ribboned, impression of impressive symbolism carried weight. It announced legitimacy and probity. It made the document a government property that had to be preserved under pain of prosecution. To alter or deface it was a criminal act carrying significant penalties – in some cases, death by hanging.
The first Committee to design the Great Seal consisted of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams – all Founding Fathers. Their “Consultant” was Pierre Eugene du Simitiere, a Philadelphia-based immigrant artist and patriot. The initial design for the Great Seal was sketched by du Simitiere. It included a motto: “E pluribus unum” meaning “from the many, one”. It also included the “Eye of Providence” – in Ancient Egyptian Lore, the “Eye of Horus” – and a Shield, representing the States of the Union.
Later, the words “Annuit Coeptis” (He has favored our undertaking) and “Novus Ordo Seclorum” (New Order of the Ages) were added. Both Freemason dictums.
These old white Dudes were Freemasons – and given their Marching Orders by Freemasons. All “Artistic Devices” on the Seal and most early American arcana are symbols of Freemasonry. That’s fact. In 1776 America, if you were an old English-ethnic white Dude who wore a Masonic apron – that was your Tribe. German and French Masons were tolerated, but the real power in what later became “The Swamp” called Washington, DC were Anglo-Saxon Masons.
But you say- What about all this Pluribus and Unum? What about our Great Seal and money engravings that glorify American ethno-diversity and polyglot destiny?
It’s nonsense. It doesn’t mean what you think it means. That phrase addressed the colonies becoming one nation – not diverse ethnicities somehow melting into one homogeneous people.
The Federalist Papers, the letters of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin make absolutely clear that “E pluribus unum” had nothing whatsoever to do with immigrant cohesion. It was about 13 states binding together. Thomas Jefferson was probably the most vocal advocate that “E pluribus unum” symbolized the Confederation (remember the first Constitution of the United States – the Articles of Confederation?) of the original 13 Colonies into one single, unified nation. He billed it as a Federal Republic forged from separate states. This Revolutionary Ideal – forging one sovereign country from many independent entities, emphasized strength through political unity. Jefferson defined Federalism as “Diverse states joining one solid compact entire” – thus becoming “One Nation, indivisible”. He wasn’t talking about immigrants or ethnic origins of American citizenry.
Alexander Hamilton’s Federalist Papers is also replete with commentary about the many colonies merging into one “Body Politic” and guiding itself through Republican – rather than Monarchist – principles. George Washington was, perhaps, the greatest advocate of the Constitutional Republican form of government, saying it was the sole ideal form of rule for the nascent United States. Washington wrote that the elements of popular sovereignty, civic virtue, limited power and Rule of Law inherent in the American system was far preferable to the Monarchy and Tyranny of Europe.
Our first President Washington believed that America’s “educated and moral citizenry” provided the most solid foundation for its survival. But he cautioned vociferously against what he called “Killers” of Republicanism:
- An Overgrown Military;
- Foreign Influence;
- Erosion of Religion and morality, the “indispensable supports” of political prosperity;
- Threats to Education, the final pillar of civic virtue that sustains our freedom.
Fast forward to 2025 – and ask yourself: “Were these guys brilliant, or what?” Foreign influence? Overgrown military? Erosion of Religion and morality? Failure of our Education system?
Check every box. Add “Degraded, debt-burdened economy” to the list.
George Washington is speaking to us from the grave. We’d best listen.
Have a Holly, Jolly Christmas.
Copyright, 2025 Jon Croft
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