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Title: Seventeen hundred and seventy-six, or, The war of independence : a history of the Anglo-Americans, from the period of the union of the colonies against the French, to the inauguration of Washington, the first president of the United States of America ...
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891
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Publisher: New York : Edward Walker, 114 Fulton Street
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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decision of character. These were not wanting, as the signatureswell attest. All are written with a firm hand, except that of StephenHopkins, an aged man afflicted with the palsy.;; The Declaration was everywhere received with demonstrations ofapprobation. Processions were formed; cannons were fired ; bells wererung ; orations were pronounced, and everything which delight couldsuggest, was exhibited. In New York, during the celebration of the * It was written by Thomas Jefferson. t See Appendix, Note VI. % On the ninth of September, Congress adopted the following resolution : Thatin all Continental commissions where heretofore the words United Colonies havebeen used, the style be altered for the future to the United States. About thistime the red ground of the American flag was altered to thirteen blue and whitestripes, as an emblem of the thirteen Colonies united in a war for liberty. § Pitkin, vol. ii., p. 346; Goodrich, p. 171; Marshall, vol. ii., p. 468. jj See Appendix, Note VI.
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Portraits of the Independence Committee: from Trumbulls Picture of th« Signers.—Facsimile of tiie handwriting of the original draft.—View of Independence Hall as it appeared in 1776. P. 158. fcHAP. vi.) EVENTS OF 1776. 109 Destruction of the Statue of George III. Conduct of the Tories event, the statue of George III. in Bowling-green was pulled down,and, its composition being lead, it was cast into bullets. A copy ofthe Declaration was received by Washington on the ninth of July,and at six oclock that evening the regiments of his army wereparaded, and the document was read aloud in the hearing of themall. It was greeted with the most hearty demonstrations of joy andapplause.* After this declaration of independence and positive war, a largeparty of Americans remained attached to the royal cause, and byinternal operations did more to retard the progress of the Statestowards the position of real and acknowledged independence, thanall the fleets and armies of Britain. To a great exte

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