Show LM 3 11 L qa gi 4 1113 story of the declaration ot of in dependence which gave birth to tv a new nation among the powers ot of tile world years ago in phils phila delphia is full of the drama of his tory from the moment of the in caption of the idea to that fateful moment when the resounding clang of old liberty bell dell pronounced the deed accomplished the story has been told so often that there is 1 scarcely arcely ec a new angle from which to view it but to the younger young erf generation of americans the thrilling rde of caesar rodney Is not so familiar as it well deserves to be and will bear retelling re telling the final debate in congress in the committee ol 01 the whole upon the adoption of the declaration of independence began at 9 0 clock on monday july I 1 on oil that day pennsylvania seven of whose delegates acre present voted against adoption the vote of 0 De delaware lasare having two delegates present was divided thereupon mckean of delaware who had voted affirmatively wrote a frantic letter to the absent delaware delegate caesar rodney imploring him to come and cast his vote and thus turn the scale for Dela De laBare Aare rodney at the time was 80 miles awa aa at dover et at one or the other of his farms byfield and poplar crave he buffered suffered tortures from the cancer which start ing on his nose had spread EO so that he had to wear a all over one a de of his face g een silk shield to hide the disfigurement it was of this chronic affliction that he died A contemporary chronicle describes him as an animated skeleton eleton tk indeed all spirit without corporeal ment a s me messenger left nut philadelphia late in the aft N ernson of july 1 it w was as necessary to get rodney back baek to independence hall by july 4 the day appointed for or taking the vote upon the tile adoption of the declaration all night all day he rode at top speed and rodney is supposed tup EUP posed to have started on k the return journey in the evening of the second that ride of rodney a de aw server serves to go dova down in history alongside of paul revere a and philip gher sher dan a in default 1 5 of missing detail the 1 imagination must provide the picture of the tall gaunt spectre of a man half 3 k F 4 masked and riding like a demon urging his steed onward through the night with whip and spur along a road abounding abound ng in pitfalls with black black miles separating one warm arm yellow cabin 1 from the next what was he be thinking of as he be rode onward not of the pain of the cancer slowly eating away his countenance and sapping his vitality not of tl e risk be ran a sol tary horseman of being waylaid and robbed or mur tiered dered upon the lonely journey he heeded not the hunger bunger and the sleeplessness he was think ng only of the fact that his vote wo id turn the jay for delaware delaware though a little state might influence pennsylvania and so the vote of the colonies would be unanimous for a declara lion tle a would immortalize the men who made and signed it and en franch se the people of the thirteen colonies and their descendants next day thursday july 4 as the members I 1 evere ere assembling at the state house door a rider booted and spurred and covered with the dust of night and day travel dismounted in their midst ind find then a little later caesar rodney rose in bla his place still breathing hard and said I 1 vote for independence the result was that the vote of delaware was cast in favor of the declaration pennsylvania by three of her fai fie e dele delegates rates I 1 ires tea pat supported Dela delaware wares s action and thus by the ride of rodney the unanimous vote of the colonies with the solitary and temporary exception of new york was that day secured tor for he magna charta charts of our americal Amer Ameri icah cati liberties it was 2 0 clock in the afternoon lossing tells as us when the final decision was announced by secretary thompson when the secretary sat down a deep silence pervaded that augi st assem bly thousands of anxious citizens had gathered in the streets from the hour when congress con in the morning the old bellman had been in the steeple he placed a boy at the door below to give him notice v when hen the announcement nt should be made As hour succeeded hour the graybeard grav beard shook his head bead and said they will never do it they will never do it suddenly a loud shout came up from below and there stood the blue eyed boy clapping his hands and shouting ring ring grasping the iron tongue of the old bell backward and forward he hurled burled it times its loud voice proclaiming liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof the excited multitude in the streets responded with loud acclamation acclamations and with cannon peals bon fire fires and III imi imitations nations it is to the everlasting fame of thomas jeffer W if 0 1 O 0 LIS 0 IF 0 ayr t t L 14 L 11 4 k 14 0 J 1 N 4 k IVI 4 ak IV 4 t P A k ty F r 4 k V aft al k ay I 1 peo M re 11 4 MW M W tel I 1 rm W iiii 9 11 1 alk I 1 A J I 1 L ill iq RA ZI i 1 IN 4 T 2 14 api c 0 z 5 49 1 A kw g I 1 f 4 04 11 h r P t tv LAW lawf f baz fc am 41 5 ass carolina and georgia were decided for a sep kf X P 1 arilon but that six others still hes bated to wit ne nev v york rew new jersey pennsylvania delaware mar afar land and south carol n a con cc 1 gress desirous of unanimity unini mity and cee n ng that th O 0 i 1 the public mind was adv advancing advin cing rapilly rapi lly to it referred the d scission to the 1st of A july appo in the meantime a comm atee tt to prepare a declaration of independence a W vw i i second to form art cles of confederation of 2 av son that his hand drafted the declara tion of 0 independence among his pa pers he be left miny letters and docu ments which throw a flood of I 1 upon the motives and objects of that gathering of american statesmen he ile told the following anecdote character letle of benjamin franki frankl n when the declaration of benc lenn was under the consideration of congress were two or three un bluely bucl expressions in it which gave ottense offense to some members the worda words and other foreign excited the ire of a gentleman or two of that country severe strictures on the conduct of the br tish king in ne our repeated repeals of the law which perm eted the imports tion of slaves were ivere bv by some southern gentlemen although the offensive often express expressions ons were imme stately yielded these gentlemen con untied their depredations on other parts of the instruments I 1 was sitting by dr franklin who perceived that I 1 was not insensible to these mutilations I 1 have made ft it a rule said he be whenever in my power to avoid becoming the draftsman tf f papers to be received by a public bode bod I 1 too took my lesson from an incident which I 1 will relate to 3 ou when I 1 was a journeyman jour printer one of my companions an apprentice hatter batter having served out his time was about to open shop for himself his first concern was to have a hand some signboard with a proper inscription lon he ile composed it U in these words john thompson hatter makes and sells hats tor for ready money with a figure of a hat a B t he be thought he would submit it to his friends for their amet d ments the first he showed it to tho the v w ord hatter batter tautology tau I 1 is beca ise fol followed towed bv by the words makes hats which showed he be was a hatter it nas ras struck ait the next observed the word makes might as well be omitted beca se his customers voiad A 0 ild not care who w ho made the hats if good and to their mind they would bu a by whomsoever made he struck it out A thaid said he lie thought the words for ready money were useless as it was not the c 9 stem arn of the tho place arsell sell on credit whoN purchased expected to pay they aare parted wit and tho the inscription now stood john thomp on sells hats bats sells hats say hayaji 5 a next friend why nobody will expect yo to talve give them awal awa what alel tl ei Is the use of that worda it was as stricken out and hats bats followed fol lovied it the rather as tl ti pre ere was we one painted on the board so his inscription was ras re deuced ultimately to lohn john tl omi son with the fig re of a hat subjoined in a letter to the editor of the jo trial de paris jeff jefferson eran gives the f olio follo wini account of the adap tion of the Declara declaration klon of independence on the ath of J ne tie 1776 the tle delegates from virginia moved in obed ence to inastri colons from their constituents that congress sheild declare the thirteen united colonies to be independent of great britain that a confederation should be formed to bind them together an ani meas rea res be taken for procuring ng the assist assistance anve of foreign poev powers era the house ordered a punctual ial al atten dance of all their members the next day at 10 clock and then resolved themselves into a corn cittee of the whole and entered on the liscus elon slon it appeared in the course of debates that seven states viz new ew hampshire massachi Mass achu rhode island connecticut virginia north k the slates states and a third to propose measures aorl obtaining foreign a d on the of june the declaration of tn in dependence was reported to the bouse house and was laid on the table for the consideration of the members on the 1st dai da of july they resolved themselves into a committee 1 of the whole and resumed the consideration of the motion of june jun 7 declaring independence it v vas as 1 fated through the dy d y and at length was ras decided in the affirmative by the vote of nine states vi nev hambsh re lassach ett rhode island con new jersey Va I aryland ryland virginia north carolina and georgia pennsylvania and south carolina voted against it delaware two mem bers present was divided the delegates from new bork ork declared they were for it and the r constituents also but th t the instructions against it which had ben g en them a twelve month before were st 11 that their convention was t tf meet in a few days end nd they asbed asked leave to suspend tl if fair vote biot till they could obtain a repeal of their instructions observe that all this was in a committee of the bhole congress and that according to the mode of their proceedings the resol resolution on of that con cittee to declare themselves independent was to bp be put to the same persons reab suming their forms as a congress it was ras now evening the members exha sted by a debate of nine I 1 a re during wl ich all the powers of the soul had been distended with the magnitude maroi tude of the object anu the delegates of 0 ao 0 o th carolina desired that the final becis on III lit ht be p t of to tl F P next morning that chev the might still in their own minds their alti i mate ote it N as a put oft off and in the morning 0 the ad of aily the other nine states in vot ng for it the merril ers era ot of the pennsyl I 1 banit delegation too who rho I lid ild ld been absent the day before came in and turned the vote of their state in favor of independence and a third mem her ber of the state st ite of delaware who hearing of tre tle division in the sentiment of his two colleur PS had bad traveled post to arrive in time now nov cime in ili and decided tie tl e vote of that state albo au for the thus 12 I 1 states toted voted fr it it tie time of its passage and the delegates of new ork kork the tle thirteenth state received anstr ct et ona on within a few dayo day to add theirs thefts to the general I 1 lote ote 0 o that there u is not i a ng vo PP ee congress proceeded immediately to consider the declaration of independence which bal hi I 1 leen 1 en reported by their corn committe mitte on the 0 ol 01 J ne the several paragraphs of 01 that were debated three das days i ay iy ta the ad d ad and ath of jub july in tl e evening of the fo rth they were fl bially bally clel and the anstr ments ar prove i bv by an I 4 vote and s ened b ever every member except mr ur dickins dickinson on the first celebration of fa r national birti dy day tool place in a four lays after th adoption of the declaration of juli S 8 1 6 v ith ail all tl tie e clamor amor and dejoie ne nc that today heralds its ai al preach am m d the h 7 zas of tl ILL e P people ople the king a arms a were torn dou down n the t oops I 1 paraded abraded an I 1 on the commons the proclamation is as read before each of the fhe battal ons bonfires blazed in to the denig can ean non were fired bells were r n and tl tre p I 1 jop op lace face celebrated ge generally the next day washington arrived in rew new r ew lork aid and took charge of the demonstrations there it s stems ems to take us into the lone long ago vf wf read that tl ti ev hurried the nev news s foiw forward ard to po i ton and the messengers mace moe su qu it fa falit st time tint that the reached tl e 11 ib bv by I 1 I 1 i here the excitement had no statue which to yent vent itself 0 so o the anthi spastic leali ts tore down the lion non and tha the unicorn from the cist cast aft wr g of the state bou houe e I 1 h fc |