Why a Cap Is Symbolical of liberty.
The right of covering the head was in early times a mark of liberty, slaves only going bareheaded. When a slav» was given his freedom, it was costonrary for his late master to place on his head a small red cloth cap, called pi>leus. When this had been done, he waff termed libertinus (a freedman), and hia name was registered in the city tribes. In 268 B. C, Saturnius, on taking possession of the capital, hoisted a cap on the top of his spear to indicate that all ulaves who joined his standard should lie? freo. Marius used the same symbol when he incited the slaves against Sylla. When Caesar was murdered, the conspirators marched forth with a cap on a spear as a token of liberty. The Goddess of Liberty in the Aventine mount waß represented as holding in her hand a cap. In France the Jacobins wore a red cap. In England a bine cap bordered in white, with the word liberty in gold, is a symbol of the constitutional liberty of the nation, and in our country the statue of Liberty always wears a cap. . t
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Manawatu Herald, 26 May 1898, Page 4
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196Why a Cap Is Symbolical of liberty. Manawatu Herald, 26 May 1898, Page 4
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