Daily Republican., 1883-07-03
TUESDAY. July 3, 1858.
Independence.

amongst the crowd that gathered
around Independence Hall, in Phila-
delphia, was would they do it? How
will McKean vote? How will Read
vote =? Will Rodney get here in time
Is Carroll all right? Is Withersp'on
able to be out? How is Hopkins "
What will be the consequences If they
doit? Won't they all be hung for trea-
son if ever Great Britain lays her hands
upon them? These and hundred other
such questions ran through that patri-
otic crowd on that memorable Fourth of
July, 1776. But they did do those
ffty-six men-not one of them ttinched.
Rodney arrived on his sweated and
jaded steed from Sussex County, having
travelled all the night before to reach
Philadelphia in time to give the casting
vote of his State delegation, which with
out him would have been tie. Rod
ney saved Delaware to freedom, and
Delaware voting for freedom passed the
immortal Declaration of Independence.
After the bill passed, those who voted
against it As well as those who voted for
it signed the immortal chart that has
given to the world the grandest Repub-
lie that ever existed. Rodney, booted
and spurred, with his sword dangling
by his side, hastened to atfix his name
to the document tina, he might be off to
Sussex again, where he was watching
the tories. Mexican and Read made
Delaware's trio of signers complete.
From that hour Delaware was a CON-
ponent part of the glorious Old thirteen
and was afterwards the first to sign the
Constitution of the Unitel States. See
old Francis Hopkins trembling with
the palsy. His hand shakes as he
writes, but the heart is fixed and firm
and his eyes flash the fires of liberty.
Look at Hancock, sitting at the head of
that mljes ic body OF heroic men.
Specially obnoxious to the British, his
downfall is sure if he falls into their
hands. Look the tirmneSS with
which he takes the pen, the boldness
with which he makes the graceful,
curved lines and he delicate hair touch,
the triumph with which he encircles it
with tourishes "Therc, that is big
enough for John Bull TO read without
glasses said the hero as he laid the
pen aside for the next signer " All
Carroll, they can't catch, you, there are
three of your name in Maryland and
they won't know which to take" am
fix that SO hey can find me" said the
hero, AMI grasping the pen boldly
wrote, Charles Carroll, Of CarrollIon.
No man wavered Elery, the two
Virginia Lees, Jefferson, the author
Morris, the linancier; Franklin, the
philosopher Rush. the learned pnysi-
clan Rutledge, Braxton, Harrison, the
father OF "Tippecanoe and Tyler too, y
Clark, Hopkinson, Stockton, Taylor,
Lynch, Middleton, Adams, the second
President, Adams alike with Hancock
specially obnoxious to the British,
Wolcott, Gerry and Livingstone, all PM
their names to the magma charta of
freedom.
What an invincible band of patriot,
those titty-six men We're. Look up in
that bell tower Of Independence Hail
and see the gray-headed w.tchman
stand ready to strike the bell II, soon as
the bill was passed, to send the loud
reverberations Of liberty throughout the
land Look at the boy who stood ON
Chestnut street TO give the signal to his
father in the bell tower rs soon as the
bill passed Soon there is Il cummUtion
in the Hall; the boy lakes the hint ANA
waving his hat in the air shouted
"They've done it, father ring, oh ring
for liberty -
This event the people of this Nation
will celebrate tomorrow. Never has a
year gone by in which it was not c"le-
brated in every city, town and hamlet
in the Nation in some kind Of man.
ncr. In thousands of groves, and from
as many platforms will thar declaration
be read, and eloquent orators will
dwell upon the stirring scenes of the
heroic struggle that tried men = souls |
That is right Let every true American
citizen take Oft his hat Tomorrow morn.
ing and bow before freedom y shrine
Let them drink in the inspiration of
liberty, and pledge anew their ale
glance to the Constitution Of The most
Tree Nation upon Tie earth. II is right
it is proper. "c are Americans lLl.
Long may the flag of the free wave
over the home of The brave.
THE BANKS of our city did wrong by
shutting out the Trade Dollar from de
posit Had they agreed 10 take them
they would have afforded great relief
To their patrons and could not possibly
have lost anything,a as the Trade >" was
worth its face any time. We are in.
formed tina. the banks all did agree toI
receive them except one, but on account
of that one the o hers had to shut them
out too, 1t is to be regretted that thcI
banks did not come to the relief Of the
people at u time when relief was need
ed. However, the merchants who have
agreed to take the Trahn Dol,pr haze
become The popular banhcrS for the peo-
pie, and the people in turn should re.