The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-07-06

gentlemen and an equal number of ladies,
Travelled by special train all the way through.
They were accompanied from Washington by
Mr.. Parke, and from Philadelphia by Mr..
Boyd, the assistant general passenger agent of
the company, two of the ablest entertainers and
jolliest fellows in the world. Everything was
provided at the expense of the company, even
to the cigars, the newspapers at the hotel news
stand, the stree-tcars at Cape May,
the bathing-houses and bathing-suts, the
boats at Sewells Point, and the thousand
quart bottles of champagne, which are said to
have been consumed by the party during their
stay from Saturday evening till Tuesday morn
ing at the Stockton Hotel. In accordance with
the general rule in vogue, noticed a card on
the wall of the hotel announcing that services
at the church were free. The poker bills and
the Observation-Disclosures were the only
things the excursionists had to pay out of their
own pockets. TIE majority of the leading
newspaper writers of the three cities were there
but by far the greatest of these, of course, was
Washington. Both the ladies and gentlemen
from Washington could do everything that
came in the way of ladies and gentlemen to do
with much greater ease and elegance than their
brothers and sisters from the other cities
q. Z. ID.
The Fourth of July is in danger. Recent in
yestigations by historical students and anti
quaries go to prove that Independence Day
should be held at some other time of the year.
The national holiday is based upon the signing
of the Declaration of Independence. 1t was the
signing of the paper that gave the Declaration
/ life, significance, and force. By the act of
signing the signers became the sponsors of the
revolution before Great Britain, America, and
the world, BY that act they pleaded guilty to
the charge presented by the government of
the British King and cOnsecrated their lives to
/ the Republic. They gave paternity and home
/ 10 the Revolution so that the world might know
where to find it, By the act of signing they
became responsible for the attempt to over
throw the government of the King. The danger
involved made the act of signing heroic, and it
Is the heroism Of the act that we celebrate on
the Fourth of July.
But the Declaration, as a matter of fact, was
not signed on the Fourth of July, l776. The
parchment in the State Department is a false
pretense. The printed journals of the Cont
mental Congress are false, They do not present
the record truly The parchment pretends to
be the original Declaration of independence
and TO have been made and signed on the
Fourth of July, whereas it was not even en-
crossed till the I'd Of August and not all of the
hfty-siX signed it even then. Thornton, OF
New Hampshire, did not sign before Novem
Der, and in January, III, the signature of Nc
hean, OF Delaware, was still wanting. The
printed journals Of the Continental Congress
contain many falslcations of the record. Be
tween them and the original manuscript Journals
there are many grave discrepancies. The manu-
script journals themselves were none too full
too accurate, or too carefully kept but the
printed copies should be true to the original
and either Congress or the State Department
should see to it that when the journals are
reprinted, as they must be some day
they are corrected and made reliable
The false journals have misled the historian
and the historians have misinformed the world
Let us have our history true, even if on
Second OF August is still to be held on tn
Fourth of July. 1t is true that the Declaration
was on paper on the Fourth of July when
was adopted by the Congress, but the pape