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Show THURSDAY, NOV. 6. 1975 PA GE 8 The Revolution As They Saw It Thomas Jefferson, charged by the Continental Congress to write the Declaration of Independence, deliv- ered it in 17 days. Now, some scholars spend entire careers studying the momentous document. Jefferson's "original De- Rough draught" of the claration of Independence is on display in Washington, D.C., as part "of a major Bicentennial exhibit at the Library of Congress, the National Geographic Society reports. Scheduled to run through the show includes rare books, manuscripts, prints and engravings, maps, offi 1976, cial notices, and newspapers of the Revolutionary War era. "HE CHOSE THE materials to show the revolution as the people of the time saw it," says Leonard Faber, the Library's assistant exhibits officer. ' Everything in the show had real meaning to the tradesmen, farmers, town folk, and political figures involved in the struggle with the mother country." 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This attempt at reconciliation with the Crown was sent to England but was not seen by King George III, who refused to receive it. - ACE Continental Congress, protesting the conversion of his home into a hospital and an anonymous pamphlet "Written by a Black," imploring the Americans to fight for ANOTHER DOCUMENT racial as well as political of special interest is the ex- freedom. The loyalists had to be change copy of the 1778 Treaty of Conditional and circumspect with their corDefensive Alliance between respondence. On view are France and the United some letters written by a States, signed by King Louis wife to her loyalist husband XVI and his foreign minisThey were tightly folded, ter, the Count de Vergennes. hidden in buttons and other The treaty appeared like wearing apparel, and smugmanna from heaven to a gled through American lines. Throughout the conflict, grim George Washington, who learned of the pact on the Patriots drummed LoyApril 30 at Valley Forge. 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The pamphfax, Nova Scotia. let favoring independence Participants in the Revowas that rarest of writings: lution are represented by a words that demonstrably variety of portraits, includchanged minds wholesale. ing contemporary engravings of King George III, THE GRAVE Washington, George Washington, Thomas who had been decidedly rePaine, Thomas Jefferson, served toward talk of indeBenjamin Franklin, the Count de Vergennes, the pendence, spoke for thousands when he pronounced Marquis de Lafayette, and "Common Sense sound doc- Lord Cornwallis. trine and unanswerable reaOne of the unusual items in the show is a powderhorn soning." About 500,000 colonists proportionate to depicting the surrender of 45,000,000 Americans today Cornwallis at Yorktown. Rein terms of total population-bou- ght volutionary artisans fre- Paine's tract. Illustrating the effects of the war on the home fronts ACE HARDWARE HARDWARE Light - Medium Dark quently engraved scenes, maps, and figures on their powderhorns. 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