The Appeal of the Good Old Cause

The appeal of the good old cause wasn't about accurately capturing the rich mosaic of partisanship within the arliamentary camp. It was about taking a rhetorical hammer to the protectorate, which were hell bent on establishing a new tyranny. On april second, 16 59, general fleetwood called a mass meeting of officers with the intention of letting the republican ing men ere their complaints. The model for this meeting was, of course, the old rendezvous led by fairfax and cromwell, who were able to control and direct the passions of their men. But in the broadest sense, it was a nestalgic appeal to the early days of the civil wars, when men