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we all KNOW l1e llSloTy VI tlal
pivotal Fourth of July from which all
Others have become conspicuous. We
know how conflicting interests and
emotions had contended. How Han
cock and Samuel Adams, who had
burned the bridges behind them. and
been proclaimed traitors by Great
Britain, urged on their cautious breth.
rem. How sagacious Franklin, long
headed John Adams and iery-hearted
Richard Henry Lee, together worked
and planned, coaXing, persuading and
arguing with their conservative COL
leagues, day after day, until they par
took of their dare-all, endure-all spirit
How that patriotic Congress eventu'
ally put aside every interest, every
consideration, save that Of liberty and
love of the right. How, with bold
John Hancock in the chair, the undy,
ing ffty.si3, on July 4, 1776, signed
the Declaration of Independence. We
know that the deadly seven years
struggle that followed, that carried
that Declaration at the swords point,
and made the world accept It as true
The liberty of America was born on
that July day at the state house in
Philadelphia. That date shines cloft
blazing star against darkoned
armament. Let the small boy shout,
whistles blow, bells ring, and can
non roar. Never too loudly can the
good story be told. At Saratoga and
Stony Point, Yorktown and Valley
Forge, our fathers won ne right for
their children's children to the last
generation to burn powder and make
uproarious din upon this national day
OF days.
John Adams, the second president,
first prophesied that the anniversary
of the signing of the Declaration OF
Independence would become a festal
day. Boston has the honor of holding
the first real Fourth of July celebra'
ton. The war was over The United
States were free and Independent and
Boston proposed in 1888 to celebrate
the event in great style, So there
were marchings and parades and Aut'
terng of flags, and shooting Of mus
kets and cannon. The Declaration
Of Independence was read aloud, and
DR.. John Warren, Professor Of Anato'
my in Harvard college, made a strongly
patriotic speech. The custom, so
beautiful and appropriate, was adopt
I ed everywhere throughout the land
and the plan of these celebrations has
always been closely modelled after the
pattern first set.
Exactly ten years after, July 4, 1893
John Quincy Adams was the orator Of
the day at Boston. He had not yet
reached his twenty-sixth year, but his
father was Massachusetts most
prominent son, and his son was
counted as in sense his representa-
tive. That day John Quincy Adams
showed that he was something more
than merely the son of his father His
address Is yet considered a master
piece, and from that day he was Q
power in the land, and eventually be
came president,
The morning Of the Jubilee Fourth
July 1926, the fftieth anniversary o.
the signing of the Declaration of In
dependence, found four of the signer'
vet alive. The sunset found but two
On that day there passed away the
immortal spirits Of Thomas Jefferson
and John Adams, each OF whom tat
been president Of the nation he ha(
helped to make
The morning Of July 4, 1926, fount
10th the old comrades sick untt
death. jefferson sank first, with th'
words. a resign my soul to God, AM
my daughter to my country" Mean
while in his mansion, John Adams la!
gasping his life away. Ninety-on'
years had not dimmed his intellect o
weakened his courageous spirit. Hi
heard tho noise of the days celabra
ton, and asked what day 1t was
After he had been told, he lay for
r while lost In thought, his mind re