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Title: An historical account of the old State house of Pennsylvania now known as the Hall of independence
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Etting, Frank M. (Frank Marx)
Subjects: Independence Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Publisher: Boston, J. R. Osgood and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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y Lee, of Virginia, rises in his place. He holds in hisunfettered hand the instructions from the Convention assembled atWilliamsburg. Those instructions which we have already heard readto the Pennsylvania Assembly, which had been brought to Philadel-phia but a few days before by Thomas Nelson, Jr., himself then presentas a delegate from Virginia. Mr. Lee reads, amidst breathless silence, a resolution still extant inhis own handwriting : — ^ For the reclamation and identification of this inkstand see page2 It was not till June 14, 1777, that Congress adopted the Stars and Stripes,— thirteen of each, — though the standard in actual use by the army consisted, asearly as 1775, of thirteen alternate red and white stripes, either with the BritishUnion Jack, or having upon the stripes a rattlesnake, transversely painted, some-times with the words given in the text. This latter flag was most probably displayedwith the navy flag in June, 17 76. THE INITIATION OF INDEPENDENCE. ^ is .is 95
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96 HISTORY OF INDEPENDENCE HALL. Among the auditors, there are sitting several men, who for many-weeks have been toiling to bring their fellow-countrymen to this point,and yet the doubt of unanimity among the colonies causes the stillnessthat ensues to be almost painful. Personal responsibility had longbeen lost sight of. This, as well as the fate of the country, had forsome time, obviously, been recognized as dependent upon Union ; aperfect union would insure success, while division must entail faihire;then Rebellion, with all its consequences. Hence Union was nowthe paramount idea. Mr. Dickinson anxiously fixes his eyes upon Samuel Adams, who,catching the anticipated glance, merely compresses his lips a littlemore tightly, and bows to his younger colleague and namesake, JohnAdams, who thereupon rises, and seconds the motion, and the mo-mentous question is, without debate, postponed till the morrow. Charles Thomson, the Secretary of Congress, seated at the righthand of the President,

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