Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-07-10
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lasted over until the next, and July would
have become the birthday instead of July 4.
Toward evening the discomfort oe the as
sembly increased on account OF the swarms
of flies which came from nearby livery stable
into the hall OF legislature These pests were so
audacious in assaults upon the statesmen that
Jefferson said their annoyance helped bring the
matter to a conclusion, and Harrison reported
the declaration to congress as accepted tncugn
in the minutes of that day the declaration was at
first left out account of the vengeance OF Eng
land.
in PHILADELPHIA remains about as 1t was on that
July A. and far the setting of the stage
the drama is complete, but the drama ltselI Is
left for to supply.
All that we have left of the record of that
memorable day is the text of the Declaration or
independence. and that represents what all
brave American colonists were ready to lay down
their lives for and what should be handed down
to us and guarded courageously as 1t had
been won the Fourth of July has amply served
it's purpose and deserved its one monument
THE Spirit of Liberty for AL"
Whether or the Declaration of INDIE
pendence signed on July 4, 1776. by any but
Hancock as president of the Continental con-
gress and Thompson. as secretary, Is a matter
of doubt, for the journal entry RECORDS signed
by order of and in behalf of congress-. JeHer-
son himself made conflicting statements regard
ing this question
Some contend that the delegates met informal
ly on the morning of July 5 and signed the docu-
ment Whether not the signatures were al
fixed on July 4, congress act was official on that
day that Iefferson's Declaration of Independence
1t resolved that copies should be sent throughout
the new-formed republic
The general assemblies. conventions, councils,
committees of safety and the commanding officers
of the Continental army had to be informed OF
the independence of the United States. These
copies were signed by Hancock and Thompson
The Conversational Record of July 10 shows that
resolution was introduced in the national
sembly to effect that the declaration should
be engrossed on parchment and presented for the
signature of every member August 2.
This fact therefore, authority that
the parchment copy signed on that day in August,
after it had been compared with the fair copy
and the latter destroyed. is the copy of the Dec
laration independence which considered
for SO many years the original draft of great
bill of rights of the American people. said
that even this signing entered into with fear
and trembling
Satisfied that the signed parchment was a
lasting evidence of the birth of the new nation.
congress took further official action regarding
the instruments itself until January. I777
BY that time the new republic began feel it's
strength and congress decided promulgate
the names of the signers of the Declaration of
dependence by ordering that printed copies of the
document should be made with the names of the
signers added
Mary Katharine Goddard, a woman who car
RED on the printing business on Broadside Bal
timore probably never heard of woman's rights
yet it so happened that It became her right to
print these copies of the American bill of rights
From these copies numerous others were soon
made until before long every home boosted at
least one copy of the original document winch
gave life republic