A Larger History of the United States of America to the Close of President Jac
A Larger History of the United States of America to the Close of President Jac
Higginson Thomas Wentworth
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The local anti- quarians of Philadelphia bid us dismiss forever from the record the picturesque old bell-ringer and his eager boy, waiting breathlessly to announce to the assembled thousands the final vote of Congress on the Declaration. The tale is declared to be a pure fiction, of which there exists not even a local tradi- tion. The sessions of Congress were then secret, and there was no expectant crowd outside. It was not till the fifth of 280 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. July that Congress... sent out circulars announc- ing the Declaration ; not till the sixth that it ap- peared in a Philadelphia newspaper; and not till the eighth that it was read by John Nixon in the yard of Indepen- dence Hall. It was read from an observatory there erected by the American Philosophical Society, seven years before, to observe the transit of Venus. The TEARING DOWN THE KING'S ARMS FROM ABOVE THE DOOR IN THE CHAMBER OF THE SUPREME COURT ROOM IN INDEPENDENCE HALL, JULY 8, 1776. THE GREAT DECLARATION. 28 1 king's arms over the door of the Supreme Court room in Inde- pendence Hall were torn down by a committee of the Volun- teer force called " associators ;" these trophies were burned in the evening, in the presence of a great crowd of citizens, and no doubt amid the joyful pealing of the old "Independence" bell.
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