Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-06-10

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gain read and subjected to severe process,
which sifted out some paragraphs. Some
were thought too disrespectful towards the
English people, some too hostile to the king
personally and some we're too condemnatory
Gudirectly) Of the institution of slavery
During this eliminating process, Jefferson
was greatly excited, at times showing his
chagrin which state of mind Franklin
greatly relieved by telling to Mr.. Jefferson
the criticisms made on the sign which hat:
ter in Philadelphia had over his store. A.
bout one quarter, according to the elder Ad-
ans, or one third, according to Jefferson, Of
the original paper, was stricken out, leaving
the document as we row haveit. The adop.
tion of this paper was warmly debated
through the second, third and fourth days
of July, and towards the close of the latter
day, the motion to adopt prevailed. 1t was
then siguedby nearly every memberpresent,
except Mr.. Dickinson, who refused to sign.
Willing and Humphreys, two delegates from
Pennsylvania, purposely abseuted themselves
to keep from signing. These three gentle,
men were decapitatcd forthwith. by the Con.
vention of Pennsylvania, then in session,
and men elected in their place who would
sign. OF the other Pennsylvania delegates,
Franklin, John Morton and James Wilson,
signed the declaration at once, and Robert
Morris; the remaining delegate was absent
on public business and had permission to
sign afterwards.
It is fact worth knowing, that the dele
gates from New York were willing to sign
but waited for instructions from home, which
they received and put their names to the
declaration on the 18th of July.
Matthew Thornton did not take his seat
in Congress until the 4th of November, and
at that time he signed the declaration.
The original paper, as interlined and a
mended was given to the Secretary of Con
gress to be engrossed on parchment, 'and
this eugrossed copy, the one in the Patent
Office, was again signed by most of the
members on the second of August, and al
different intervals afterwards by the rest
Can amy one eluhether the real original a
get tn existence?
These facts are cleaned principally from
the Journals of Congress, fuckers Life O.
Jefferson and the work of John Adams.
The passage on negro slavery, which wa!
erased from Jefferson's original draft, is no
published in books accessible to the most
The passage is as follows: 7He, the king
has waged cruel war against human nature
itself, violating its most sacred rights Of lif'
and liberty III the persons Of q distant peo
pie who never offended him, captivating ant
carrying them into slavery in another hemis
phere, or to incur miserable death in thei
transportation thither. The practical war
fare, the opprobrium of Infdel nations, il
the warfare of the Christian King of Grea
Britain. Determined to keep open mar
ket where men should be bought AMI sold
he has prostituted his negative for suppress
sing every legislative attempt to prohibit o.
restrain this execrable commerce. And tina
this assemblage of horrors might want nj
fact of distinguished dye, be is now exciting
those very people to, rise in arms among us
and to purchase that liberty of which he ha
deprived them, by numbering these peopl'
on whom he has obtruded them, thus payinl
off former crimes committed against the lib
critics of one people with the crimes which
he urges them to commit against the lives o
another
Tucker, in his life of Jefferson supplie
this remarkable passage, together with al
the changes made in the original draft Of tn
declaration.
Gordon, in his history of the Revolution
says the reason why the first of July did no
become Independence Day, was that 'neithe
the colonies nor members being unanimous
it was post poned till the next day?'
But when did the venerable bell, still pre-
served in Independence Hall, peal out th'
notes of liberty? Gordon has the following
answer: July 9th. This day, at IL O'Clock
the Declaration of Independence was pro
claimed at the State House in Philadelphia
amidst the greatest acclamations. The same
evening the equestrian statue Of the king
was laid PROSTATE on the ground. The leat
of which it was made is to be run into bul
let's
WANTED, AN HONEST, INDUSTRIOUS
BoY.-Young man-we mean you, particu
larly. who are now reading these lines-haYt