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Show 5tY "'wJl.4'k"r ft 1 Ml TIME TABLE There SMNGTON. the in unveiled wa8 II tlou'a capital recently a Biaiue m me juu Wlthergpoon. one of the signers of the Decof Indepenlaration dence. More and more attention Is being given throughout the country vl to ''he memories of the MaatBiaJ men who signed the liberty document. Not long ago there was held in Washington a convention of the descendants of the signers. It Is expected that bb the result of the labors of this hereditary organization there will be gathered .together for preservation in one safe place all the things (hat are attainable which had Intimate association wllh the men who on the 4th of July, 1776. took their lives and their pens in hand. In the year 1776 lived a woman who was fond of giving curtain lectures to her husband. She was the original Mrs. Caudle, though her name was Mrs. Dickenson, the wife of John Dickenson of whose "Letters of a Pennsylvania Farmer" had done much to arouse a spirit of liberty among the people. One night several weeks before the meeting of the continental congress, of which Dickenson was. a member, his spouse, speaking from beneath the shadow of her nightcap, said: "Johnny, If you have anything to do with this independence business youH be hanged, and leave a most excellent widow." John Dickenson spoke against the resolution declaring the colonies to be free and independent. The great Independence debate was held within' closed doors, and no record of the speeches was kept, because It was felt that in case of W SOUTH-IjOCND ' No. ' For Pyion. Saoiaqutu wl Lou Angelca... No. 43 For Payaoo, Nepbi and .. 81 . t.U pa .. 1:46 a ManU NORTH-BOUN- No. ' ForProTo. PLGrove. 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I itor, and when Lee approached fir. j r 8 ' Jr the capture of any one of the members of the body that King George would have him strung up speedily should there be written evidence that he had spoken against the supremacy of the crown. When the Brunswick monarch, however, had been forced to relinquish his grip on the united colonies, some of the delegates told what they had said or what others had said. These fragmentary speeches bad never before been gathered together, it is believed. Bits of them appear here and there In revolutionary-day stories. Others are to be found in the correspondence of some of the fathers of the republic, and two others have had their spirit, but not their letter, preserved through one of the almost matchless orations of Web- ster. It is a the Englishman said to F him: "Do you know Q form, were never preserved. During a part of the proceedings Ben- jamin Franklin .have your father's head .It 'Crfik' I I - pre- v :: Tower 1 on 1 bill?" "You may have it when you can get It," was the boy's spirited answer. John Dick-enso-n L. ' of sided. S T SJWw. 1 In a letter written 20 " k . , , , Vfy years after the debate he one of the delegates .THC 3TL CAFF WWHCH Ttf DCVLARATWH had been one said that when Benjaof the torePff&ERVtD Or MQPJWMCC min Franklin, after the ro os t advo- signing, said: "Now, we must all hang together or we'll all hang rnt nf rPHititnnce to tyranny, spoke forcibly It separately," Harrison, who had a ready wit, against the adoption of the declaration. be looking at his ample proportions, said: "If may be that his wife's, "Johnny, youll one they drop us off at a rope's end some of you hanged," was still on his mind. He was of the best speakers In the congress, and the lightweights will be kicking and suffering long after I'm done for." friends of liberty feared the effect of his The gist of what he said was years During the time of the adjournment, the afterwards made public, and, while Dickenson committee which had been appointed to prefeared simply that the time had not yet come pare the declaration of independence chose for the declaring. of the country'a IndepenJefferson, the youngest of their members, to dence, and was In reality a patriot at heart, write the document, on the ground that he waa bis memory has suffered for the stand he then "the best penman" In the lot. Now, the word ' took. penman in those days was sometimes used to denote a man who expressed himself well on When Daniel Webster delivered his panepaper, aud not necessarily a man who wrote a of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams gyric good hand. The English or the declaration he drew a verbal picture of that scene In the pei haps shows that the word was used with continental congress when the Declaration of the former significance, though some of JefferIndependence was under discussion. He knew son's detractors have insisted that Tom Paine the thread of Dickenson's discourse as It had wrote the famous document. been Imputed to him, aud though Webster mentioned no name, his amplification of DickThe Declaration of Independence was read enson's words will probably stand forever as paragraph by paragraph to the assembled members. Aa a matter of fact, the most brilcontaining the essence of the opposition of the colonial legislator to the taking of a firm stand liant speakers were opposed to the resolution. for bis country'a freedom. Among thoie so opposed were Dickenson, Robert R. Livingston, James Wilson and Edward Dickenson's speech, aa it has come down, Rutledge. It leaked out afterward that most runs in part as follows: "Let us pause. This of these men made speeches opposing the sevThis step, once taken, cannot be retraced. ering of the British bonds. Of three of those resolution, once passed, will cut off all hope who spoke In favor of independence It waa of reconciliation. If success attend the arms afterward said: "Jefferson waa no speaker; of England we shall then be no longer colowas not and sensible, but George Wyeth clear, nies, with charters and with privileges; these Wltherspoon was clear, but heavy." will all be forfeited by this act, and we shall It has always been believed that Richard be In the condition of other conquered people Henry Lee said. In standing for the absolute at the mercy of the conquerors. For ourIndependence of his country: "Why still delibselves, we may be ready to run the hazard, erate? Why, sir, do you longer delay? Let but are we ready to carry the country to that this happy day give birth to an American relength ? Is success so probable as to Justify us 7 public. Let her arise, not to devastate and Where is the military, where the naval power, the reign of peace conquer, but to by which we are to resist the whole strength and law. The eyes of Europe are fixed upon of the arms of England, for she will exert that us; she demands of us a living example of strength to the utmost? Can we rely on the freedom that may exhibit a contrast in the constancy and perseverance of the people, or felicity of the citizen to the will they not act as the people of other countyranny which desolates ber polluted, shores. tries have acted, and, wearied with a long If we are not this day wanting In our duty to war, submit In the end to a worse oppression? our country the names of the American legisla"While we stand on our old ground and Intors of 1776 will be placed by posterity at the sist on redress of grievances we know we are side of Theseus, of Lycurgus, of Romulus, of right, and are not answerable for conseNunia. of the three Williams of Nasnau, and of quences. Nothing, then, can be imputed to us. all those 'whose memories have been and forBut If we now change our object, carry our ever will be dear to virtuous men and good pretensions farther and set up for absolute incitizens." , dependence, we shall lose the sympathy of JuBt how Lee'a speech leaked out was uot mankind. We shall no longer be defending somewhat remarkable what we possess, and which we have solemnly Ifnown, but It led to scene In the English school of St. Bees. Lee and uniformly disclaimed all Intention of purhad a son, a mere boy, a pupil in St. Bees. suing from the very outset of the troubles. A member of a board of visitors to the InstituAbnndolng thus our old grounds of resistance tion asked the heaa master who the boy was. only to arbitrary acta of oppression, the na"lie is the son of Richard Henry Lee of tions will believe the whole to have been mere America," waa the answer. pretense, and they will look on us cot as In- -- J argu-ment- fact that the declaring of the colonies Independent was not thought of seriously bofore the convening of the memorable congress of the spring of 1776. Washington was bitterly opposed to any such declaration until It became a military and civil necessity. Patrick Henry was perhaps the only outspoken advocate of the year when the cutting was actually accomplished, though Benjamin Franklin and Timothy Dwlght thought, and sometimes said, that the yoke should be removed. Henry, by the way, in one of his speeches, undoubtedly gave the keynote to which Robert Emmet afterward attuned the last sentence of his speech when condemned to die. At early aa 1773 Patrick Henry declared that the colonies should strike for independence, and prophesied that France would not be backward In coming to their aid. The last words of his speech were almost literally a part of the concluding words of Robert Emmefa speech: "Then our country shall take her place among the nations of the well-know- n earth." The original declaration of Independence was a local affair. Mecklenberg county, North Carolina, at a public meeting held In the town of Charlotte, In August, 1775, declared that "it threw off forever all allegiance to the British crown." It was not long alter this that North Carolina Instructed Its delegates to. the continental congress to vote "first, last and always" for the Independence of the united colonies. It must be said that many historians doubt the authenticity of the Mecklenberg declaration. The congress that waa to declare America free convened in Philadelphia, and in a general way discussed the matter of throwing off thed of Virginia yoke. Richard Henry Lee this resolution: "Moved, That these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states, and that all political connection between ua and Great Britain Is. and ought to be. dissolved." John Adams of Massachusetts seconded the secmotion, but the nainea of both mover and onder were omitted from the record, because It was the belief that If the British authorities would got bold of them as prisoners they Before the trial. a without hemp stretch of the resolution congress adjourned and came together again In June, when began the debate, perhaps the most momentous In save In detached history, the details of which, Intro-doure- Dealers la 0 'i: ,j we will soon It has been truthfully termed Spanish Fork u' MaBBHBMBBBBv H f IDAHO? DRAfT OF THf DZCLAMTiOrt f Vil flHM riW" ' Thousand! of acres of land have beeu reclaimed to cultivation by in that State during the oast... 10. -years. Thousands :. tu mors will oe reciaxmeui wiium the next 10 years. This means an opening for many thousands of homes. Hate Too Lnvestioated fA . - TH ORIGINAL WtUIAM What's the mailer ff) IDAHO ) WtH WXm , o2- -- - , with rM sj&hrZK 1 SVBBBBBBBBBBBBMBBSBBBBMaaaiBBBeaK St., Salt Lake City, Utah Reference: a, JS f s. ri WfHfl, CU6T0DJAN jured, but as ambitious, subjects. "I Judder before this responsibility. It will be on us if. relinquishing the ground on which we have stood so long, and stood so safely, we now proclaim independence and carry on war for that object, while these cities burn, these pleasant field whiten and bleach with the bones of their owners, and these streams run blood. It will be upon us; It. will be upon us if, fatltn to maintain this unreasonable and declaration, a sterner despotism, maintained by military power, shall be established over our posterity, when we ourselves, given up by an exhausted, a harassed and misled people, shall have expiated our rashness and atoned for our presumption on the scaffold." It is a fairly well established fact that one of the delegates, lacking a prepared speech of his own, quoted from Tom Palne's pamphlet, "Common Sense," which some months befor Tom Paine, bb la had created a sensation. well known, was an atheist, but that mad little difference to the delegate, who was Bald to be a pious Puritan, when he bad a chance to let hla feelings go ripping through sentence like these: "It matters very little now what the king of England either aays or does; be hath wickedly broken through every moral ant human obligation, trampled nature and conscience beneath bis feet, and by a steady and constitutional spirit of Insolence and cruetly procured for himself a universal hatred. It has been reported that John Wltherspoon of Princeton, stanch ortuodox Presbyterian, waa the man who quoted thus liberally from Tom Paine, atheist. Some years afterward the Scotch dominie, it is salil. was taken to task for quoting Paine, and reverend John said. If tradition may be believed, that the devil's pitchfork was none too bad a weapon to use in prodding John Bull out of the country. It was left, however, for Johu Adams to make the great speech that brought to the side of those favoring independence all the wavering ones, and strengthened In their position those who stood for the signing of the What Adams said was given l declaration. substance to the world when there was as longer any danger of his being banged for hie utterances. Daniel Webster lent his own eloquence and something of bis diction to bis Interpretation of Adams' discourse, which, oa the eventful day, It may be truly said won for the country the declaration of Independence. Adams' powerful and electrifying speech was in part as follows: "It Is true, Indeed, that in the beginning we aimed not at independence. But there's a divinity which shape our ends. The Injustice of England has driven us to arms, and, blinded to ber own interest for(our good, she has obstinately persisted till independence is now within our grasp. We have but to reach forth to It and it Is our. Why, then, should we defer the declaration? Is any man bo weak as now to hope for s reconcllatlon with England, which shall leave either safety to the country and its liberties or safety to his own life and his own honor? "I know there la not a man here who would not rather see a general conflagration sweep over the land or an earthquake sink it than one jot or tittle of that plighted faith fall to the ground. For myself, having 12 month ago In this place moved you that George Washington be appointed commander of the forces raised or to be raised for defense of American liberty, may my right hand forget ber cunning and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if I hesitate or waver In the support I gi.'e him. "My judgment approves this measure and my whole heart is In It. All that I have and all that 1 am, and all that I hope in thla life, 1 am now ready here to stake upon 1L I am for the declaration. It is my living sentiment, and, by the grace 'of God, In shall be my dying sentiment, Independence now tad independence forever." The 2d of July is in reality Independence day, for on this date in the year 1776 a majority of the delegates from each colony voted for the declaration. Two days later the document was signed and went Into effect, and from that day to this. In fulfillment of John Adams' prophecy, the day has been celebrated "with pomp, parade, games, sports, guns, bell, bonfires, and Illumination from one end of the coutlnent to the other." |