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Title: Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ..
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
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Publisher: Philadelphia, National pub co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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charged with the preparation ofa plan for uniting the colonies in a singlegovernment; the other was to report a planfor securing alliances with foreign nations.The committee charged with the preparationof a declaration of independence consisted ofBenjamin Franklin, John Adams, ThomasJefferson, Roger Sherman and Robert R.Livingston. On the twenty-eighth of June the com-mittee reported the declaration to Congress.It was written by Thomas Jefferson, and» that, as freeindependent states, they have full power tolevy war, conclude peace contract alliances,establish commerce and to do all other actsand things which independent states may ofright do. And for the support of this decla-ration, with a firm reliance on the protectionof a Divine Providence, we mutually pledgeto each other our lives, our fortunes, andour sacred honor. The declaration was debated in Congress,and a few passages, which it was fearedmight offend the friends of the colonies inGreat Britain, were stricken out. The vote
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SIGNING THE DECI a RATION Of INDEPENDENCE. 387 388 THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. was then taken by colonies, and thoughsome of the delegates voted against it, thedeclaration received the votes of all the colo-nies .with the exception of New York, whichaccepted it a few days later. On the fourthday of July, 1776, the Declaration of Inde-pendence was formally adopted by Congress,and was ordered to be published to theworld, and to be read at the head of theregiments of the army. Congress was in session in the hall of thestate house in Philadelphia. In the spire ofthis venerable building hung a bell, inscribed

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