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Show THE L'OUJITII OF JULY r j DinTMDAY OF THE CWEATEBT OF NATIONS. Why rery I'alrlnllK American Hhool.l lejalc anil III'.-. Thanks HUInrr ( tlia lleeUrslltiu of IntleiH-uileucs Us nttoers. One hundred nud twenty-ono years go the Ml rouK In Independence hall la Philadelphia. To llio uulnltluled It ,, THOMAS JKIVEIIKON renled Iti sonorous notes (or some un- known purpose To thou- who, breath- lees, were waiting (or the sound. It told ' tbo newt that liberty bad shaken off her ihacklM In the Dew world, that die bad taken her rightful place and 1 that hereafter the people would ac- , knowledge the power of no ruler except iuch aa might he choien by them-, them-, selves. 11 wn a curlotia scene In that 7 atald old Quaker town, tbo hut place . In too colonies where one would have ., impeded a epark would ho Riven birth ; to light freedom's torch throughout the j, western hemisphere. i V It aa on the seventh day ot June. ta 177C, that the delcgntea from tbo colo- nice lilting In congress In Philadelphia .' considered the following reaolutlon In- v troduccd by Virginia'! statesman, j. Illchard Henry Lee4 , A "Resolved, That the United Statu 'v' toloalea are and ought to be (ree and BENJAMIN FllANKMN Independent itatea and their political connection with Great Ilrltaln la and ought tobodlteolved" , There bad been murmuring! and threat! and oalm expressions o( determination. de-termination. Dut here was united action ac-tion The people, by their representative! representa-tive! duly oboaen, formally abeolved themaelvees from allegiance from the mother country and eald to the world that they bad cant oft their twaddling clothei, and were now able to walk alone To areak with ab.oluto truth, nil the deb-gates did not favor thla ' jj progressive atep Some oppoeed It on & the ground that It woe premature j, 1 Nevertheless the reaolutlon over- 3 came oppoaltlon and waa Indoried as M stated, by the majority of rue. Thir J teca colonloa were repreewsl l 3 cause seven of them ot d ntid ' tf j for Independence r Voltet " ? today what aho iCio-i- , opmtnta prove that iiau the action ink- I en been delayed, the question of independence inde-pendence might have elept In peace un. I Ul the herald of the people, no one j knowa how many year! after, aounded j the tocsin of resolution Ibo dolo-Ratea dolo-Ratea thought It wlae to defer the quel-tlon quel-tlon of final conalderat to July I, 1770, by which llmu they uellevcd thera might bo a mora united feeling among tho people. Thui It was that on June 11, that fan-out committee waa apppoluted to frame tho declaration of Independence. Nolo the name, and It you are n Undent Un-dent of tbo hlitory of the United State. concelte. If you can, of a better quln-tot quln-tot to hnvo represented tho American people Ilenjamln Franklin, John Adama, Thomaa Jefferson, lloger Sherman, Sher-man, Itobert It. Livingston Tho flrat waa tho man whoso fame la ticked Into our cara every time we bear a telegraph Instrument, whoso genlui It placed In broad light whenever wo enjoy the Illumination Il-lumination of electricity. The aecond rote to be pretldcnt ot the nation ho helped to form The third la tho father fa-ther of wlnl the world knowi aa Jeffcr-aonlan Jeffcr-aonlan democracy, ATh$tfourtb,,purl.,j tan, patriot, lender, gave moro In moral forro and determination, In knowledge of tho law and lit common aente principle! prin-ciple! than almoit any man who aa-altted aa-altted at the birth of the nation Tbo fifth waa tho man of whom the majority major-ity of pcoplo know comparatively little, and yet tbero waa none who better deterred de-terred a placo of honor In tho public mind Imminent aa n financier, a ahrewd Judgo of human nature, hta touch on the helm of atato waa ex- JOIIN ADAMS nctly whit waa needed to keep tho joung craft on her courao Jefferson had apoken but little In eongreuj aud ho had no part In the acrlmonle which then prevailed. In a plain brick houee, corner of Market and Seventh etreett, Philadelphia, he drafted the declaration of Independence Independ-ence The work waa almost wholly Jefferaon't. only a few verbal altera-llona altera-llona being euggealed by Adama and I'rnnklln It tben waa approved by the committee. A few paaeagea wcro atruck out by congreea Caesar Itodney. ouo of Delaware'i delegateai. In order to have hie vote recorded, rode In the saddle from a point eighty mile from Philadelphia, all night, and reached the lloor Just In tlmo ou July I to cost Delnware'a vote In favor of Independence On that day, over memorublo In American annate, the declaration of Independence waa H,u ltD IlbflKY I-UB. j.i.d by tho unanimous voto of the ii.rtecn roloulee. The enthusiasm of the patriots nt hearing the Intelligence waa unbounded unbound-ed While congress hod been discuss-lug discuss-lug the aubject. crowdt assembled out-alde out-alde the hall and In the atreeta, an xiously awaiting the resulL When II waa announced at noon tho ittto hostt bell, on which waa Inscribed "Proclaim liberty throughout all tho land uota the Inhabitants thereof," clanged deep and melodiously and tho throng give vent to long and loud thouta of exultation. exulta-tion. The old bctl ringer had been at hit pott alnce early morning. He had . placed hta boy below to announce when I tho declaration waa adopted, to tint j nonnriT it. mvinoston. not an Instant might bo lost In transferring trans-ferring the glad tidings by mean! ot the licll to tho waiting multitude. Aa the wearliomo houra pasted and no sign came to him tho aged bell ringer finally exclaimed ' They will never do Itl They will nover do III" Just then ho heard bit boy clapping hla hands and vociferating at the top of hit Juvenile Ju-venile lungs "lllngl Itlngl" Tho old hands awnyed the sonurout bell wltb delirious vigor lit reverberations was. echoed by every ateeple In the city That waa a gala day In Philadelphia, what with rejoicing! and bonfires and Illumination!. The cannon boomed and messengers rode away hotly In all quarter! to annotmro the newt Wash. Ingtnn then waa In New York with the army. Ily hie orders It w at read to the eoldlcrt, who acclaimed It enthusiastically. enthusias-tically. The townsfolk on that night tore the atatuo of flcorgo HI from Iti pedestal In Howling (lreen and It was melted Into 42,000 bulled for the patriotic pa-triotic troop". "Yesterday," wrote John Adtmt U noonii shkiiman hit wife, "tho greatest question wai decided that vvat ever debated In America, Amer-ica, and greater, perhapa, never vrua oi will be decided among men A reao tutlon was passed without one dissenting dissent-ing colony 'that these united colonic! are, and ot right ought to be free aud Independent ' Tho day It pasted. Th Fourth of July, 1770. will be a tnemor. able epoch In the history ot America. am apt to believe It will be celebrated by succeeding generations aa the great tcnlvortary festival It ought to he cor meniONted aa the day of deliver-nie deliver-nie by solemn acta of devotion to Almighty Al-mighty God It ought to be aolemnlzed with pomp, shows, garnet, sports gana, belli, bonfires and Illuminations from one end ot the continent to the other, from thla time forward forever" Ily a strange coincidence Joha Adams died on July 4, 1S:, the Dftletli anniversary of tho declaration ot In. dependence Hla last words were "Jef. tenon still eurvlvei " But at 1 o'cloca on the same day Jeff eron Uat TMi away. |