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I quits VIuclVu tuat tuk SoNflelsuS SuOutu
solemhly receive. at their accession to the
throne, The iron crowu:of Milan
REyoLupIoSAnx HISTORY.
The Whining ton (Del ] Journal states thai
they have been favored With the following let
Ter from the late THOMAS McKr4N 10 csEsAn Al.
RODNEY, which mill b. read with interest !:
PH.lADILpHrs, Aug a2J, 1918,
Dear Sir:-Y our favor Of The 22d last month,
with copy Of the journal OF the Congress at
New York 10 October, 1868 printed in The Bal!
tlnofe Register, came safe 0 hand. Not hayirg
heard Of this publication. Ihad the proceeding 9
of that body (notthe whoe) reprinted here abou,
enonths ago, from copy found ID The Isl vol-
ume of"AmerfcaneTract (contained in fur
volumes octavol edited ny J. Almon DC London
in l7G7. Such an important TRANSACTION should
not be, unknownlto the future historian.
y | rccoliect what passed 10 Congress Id the be-
ginning Nof July It's respecting Undergraduates,
it was not as you have conceived. On Monday
The J 81 of luly9tbe question was taken in tie
commiueeNof the whole, when the State OF nenn-
sylvania Represented by seven gentlemen then
present. voted against It's Delaware, (hayiBg
then only two Representatives present. was ~
yided all the sother States soied in favour oft
Whereup6n, without delay, l. sent an express
Cat myFprivate espebse) for:your honored uutle,
Cesar Rodney Esquire, the remaiRSng member
for Delaware, wh9m met at the State hoass
door, in his boots md spugs, IS ihg members
were assembling; after a: friendly salulation
(withouta word on me bu5iness we went into
the Hall of Congress Together. and found We
were among the latest Aproseedngs immed date:
iy commenced, and aftera few minutes the great
question wa. put when Me vote for DeawateI
was called, your uncle arcse and said ssAsI
believe the voice Of my constituents snd of1all
sensible and honest men is-iiNfaYog Of Irdtpend-
ence, and my own Judgement concugs with
them, voted for1ndepeade gee, y Or ipl words 10
The same effect The State,of Pennsylvania gu.
The Ath or july (there being only five members
present, Messrs. Dickinson and Morris Who
had in the committee OF the whole voted against
Under endence were absent noted for IL; three
to two, Aiessrs. Willing and Humphres in tie
NEGATIVE. Unaniniy inlfbe thirteen States. an
all important poiuton 50 great an occasion was
thus obta med tbe dissenticn of d single State
might have produced very dangerous consequen-
ces.
Now, that I am on his subject, wilfteli yoa
some truths mot generally known. Ip the prin !,
ted public Journal Of Congress for 1876, vol q,
/ ii would appear, that the Declaration pf Inde.
pendepce was signed on The 9TH OF july by the
lie fact is not 50, for no person sigped on that
| day nor for mapy days after, and among the.
names subscribed, one was againstlt, Mr.. Read.
and seven were not in Congress On that day,
aamey, Sessrs.E Morris. R1sh, Clymsr, Smith,
Taylor and ROSS Of Pennsylvania. and sfr
Thornton Of New Hampshire nor were the SIX
gentlemen last named at thatStime me mbers !,
the five for PenTs lysna were appointed Deles,
gates by the Eenvention of that State on the
AOt 4 : rfst r.
Tor The frst time ON. the 4th Of November fol-
lowing when The names DC Henry Wisner or
New> York, and Thomas Mexican Of Deiawaref
are not printed 81 subscribers though both were
present and yoted for Independence
Here false colours are surely hong out there
IS culpabllit somewhere. What can offer IS
an apology Or "a planaiion IS, that Oh the 4th Oh
July 1916, ihe Declaration Of independence was
ordered 10 be engrossed on parchment and linen
10 be signed, andI have been told, that resolve
~had passed fewFd8ys after and was entered on
Tie SECRET journal, that no1person should have
seat in Congress, during fTat year, sintH no
had signed the DeclarsiioD,In order lss have
been given to understsndj 70 prevent traitors on
spies from ~orming themselves amongst us. i
was not in Congress after the 4tb, for some
months having marched with my regiment Of as
socatoss OF Ibis city, IS Colonel, to support gem
eral. Washinglo until fling camp.cl ientneu-
sand mea was Completed. When she associa,
tors we're discharged returned 10 Phiadelphia,
took my seat 10 Congress, and then signed the
Declaration on parchment Two days after |
went 10 New Castle, Joined The CuH Eeflion for
forming a Constitution for the future goyern-
ment Of The State 81 Delaware thaying b6ense-
lecled member for New Castle county which
wrote in tavern, without q book or sny ast
sistaEce.s
You may rely 90 the accuracy Of the foregol
ing relation Ii IS full time 10 Print and pupllsh
the sEcREf journal Of Congress during he Reso-
luton.
] have thus answered your 5ss1eSlS sun s1'ss'
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