Rough Draft minus a conclusion

----Twelve years ago, we Americans won independence from our “Mother”, England. The war that England forced upon us took a terrible tole on us, both economically and spiritually, but we can finally claim to have freedom. No longer will we have to put up with England’s stranglehold on our trade, their oppressive ruler-ship and unjust taxes. Instead we are a continent that cries out in the face of the British tyranny, a place of freedom and fairness, a place where everyone is equal, no one standing above another, with no chance of the corruption of the central government that is so rampant in England. My business can now reach a broader market with Britain’s polices and acts abolished. My fellow Delawareans and I have been ready to rule ourselves for a long time, with our strong economy and healthy government, and we can finally do so.
----My business is flourishing now that we are out from under the cloud that was British rule. We merchants of Delaware have always found a lucrative business in trading with the more inland Americans, and then with the various English merchants (and only the English merchants). Now though, we still have the trade with the inland people, but also with French, and Spanish merchants, who don’t completely control what they pay for our goods and we for theirs. The Navigation Acts that Britain had set were slowly destroying my business, as the English merchants knew that I could not sell my goods to any other people, allowing them to demand absurdly high prices for their goods, while paying only paltry sums for my own. Is that how a Mother should treat her children? Does it seem decent that a country half a world away should be able to so control the economic well-being of so many people, all because a piece of inconsequential paper saying that we could not legally trade with any other sovereign nation? Larry Sawers published an article reading, “The Navigation Acts reserved all commerce between the colonists and Europe to British Citizens (which included therefore the colonists themselves). Certain ‘enumerated’ goods bound for Europe from the colonies had first to be landed in a British port and then re-exported. Similarly, ‘enumerated’ imports from Europe had to routed through England. The Navigation Acts also mandated the subsidy of certain commodities in the colonies such as naval stores and indigo, and forbade the manufacture of other goods such as fur hats.” With such stringent rules that made it so that we had to pay England a substantial sum to get our goods to any buyers from other countries, many merchants were having a hard time keeping their money from running out. I am glad that I was part of the Revolution that broke us away from England and her constraints.
----Now, I am not saying that there were not a few hiccups after our bid for freedom and liberty won out. Right after the war our economy in the State of Delaware suffered severely, as we had to create our own currency, to further separate ourselves from the British. This combined with many soldiers returning home and demanding their promised land grants deeply scarred our economy, but not irreparably so. We have already started to recover, and the process has been helped with our new found freedom to trade with new countries, countries that until now had been forced to buy our goods at incredibly high prices from England. My business has almost completely recovered, and with the inner colonies once again shipping their surplus food to me for processing and shipping I expect that I will soon be fully back on my feet.
----Besides our economic situation vastly improving after our break from England, our governmental system is working splendidly. I am told that we were the first colony to develop and implement a State Constitution, one that encompasses our ideals and laws. Such things as Article 26, “No person hereafter imported into this State from Africa ought to be held in slavery under any presence whatever; and no negro, Indian, or mulatto slave ought to be brought into this State, for sale, from any part of the world,” and Article 29, “There shall be no establishment of any one religious sect in this State in preference to another; and no clergyman or preacher of the gospel, of any denomination, shall be capable of holding any civil once in this State, or of being a member of either of the branches of the legislature, while they continue in the exercise of the pastorial function.” Both of these have been a long time in coming to fruition as law, as they were originally halted by the ‘oh-so-devout-Royal-Governor’, who was not willing to allow for other modes of thinking than his, which in his ‘oh-so-devout’ mind were our ideals as well. What’s more, it is not only us of Delaware that were ready to govern ourselves. Seven of our Sister Colonies developed and put into mandate their own Constitutions in 1776, and the other five of our Sisters had theirs prepared within a scant two years. Two years! Who would have thought that we would go from a nation of scared kittens to self-reliant countries in a mere two years? Surely not the English, but I think that even most Americans thought that the war was only going to re-establish the status quo, no make us our own nation.