The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1873-09-24


cussion- But none Of them altered the
tone, the frame, the arrangement, or the
general character Of the instrument. As
composition, the Declaration is Mr. JEFF
fcrson's. II is the production Of bis mind,
and the high honor Of ii belongs to him
clearly and absolutely. To say that he
performed his great work we'll. would be
doing him injustice. TO say that he did
excellently well, admirably we'll, would DO
inadequate and halting praise. Let "; us
rather say. thatbc 80 discharged tlUudty
assigned him. that all Americans may well
rejoice that the work Of drawing the title
deed Of ftheir liberties developed upon him.
Everett talks in the same strain upon
like occasion: This trust deyolyed ON
Jefferson, and with it rests on him the i'm
perishable renown Of. having penned the
Declaration Of Independence. 10 have
been the instrument Of expressing in ore
brief. decisive act. the concentrated will
and resolution Of q whole family Of States ;
Of unfolding. in one all-impcs tant manifes-
to, the causes. the motives. ard the justi-
ication Of this great movement in human
affairs to have been permitted TO giyetbe
impress and popularity Of bis own mind
to charter Of public right, destincd-or.
rather, let me say, already elesatSd--tO
an importance. in the estimation Of many,
equal to anything human ever borne on
parchment. or expressed in the visible
signs Of thought, this is the glory ofThOa.
as Jefferson
Losing, in Lis introduction to his Lives
Of the Signcrs. says few verbal altera-
tions were made BY Adams and DR.. Frank
lin. and that it was submitted to Congress
on the 2sih day Of June. On the 9Th Of
june, Richard Henry Lee made the great
moysf for independence, BY Offering his cell
ebrated resolutions. which was incorpora-
ted in lie instrument: Resolved. That
these United Colonies are, and Of rieft
ought TO BE-, free andi-AF M allegiance
.i.-...pnuzh j. Grown; AMI that all politi-
cal connection between them and tho State
Of Crest Britain is and ought to be. totally
dissolved
On the 1Ith Of june the committee was
appointed. The time srhea lies, then,
between lie ilth and the 2sth. There
having been. according to John Adams,
several meetings o. tile committee and
one or moro meetings Of tie sub committee
Jefferson and himself) Tho instrument
must have been drawn within the space Of
two weeks. and probably within one. We
have not seen kolc il was drawn. The
ideas are not original. but were long tic
expression Of the cpubllc mind. which we're
then to take more positive shape. and
were 70 become tue language ofthc Colo
nies united as separate States The group
ing. or as Webster has il, the compost
iion.' was JefFerson's. Ills was the style
he rhetoric.
As 70 the place rhere.' Jefferson said
D Webster aud Mr.. end Mrs. Ticknor,
Rhen they visited him in 1924, in reply |
o question of Mr. webster's': The
Declaration Of Independence was written
d house on the north side of Chcsnut
trect. between Third and Fourth-not q
;ornor house. lIeiskcIl's Tavern, ID
Fourth street, has been shown for il, but
his isnot the house. This, in brief, i
sbat VIC End as 10 the must eloquent State
,aper. bearing upon the question asked by
our correspondent. lying scattered through
history and tradition. Il
scre wellin these centennial days TO revive
II chat Is known Of those Iiborty-loying
ncn who gave birth TO free government.
,ascd upon the will Of the people, and
each their virtues to tho rising youth.
vho have much to do with our history as a
Iation 1t tue eud Of an other hundred
ears. nERyEY.
iIsnKILL, ON THE HuDsos, August iG.
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