The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1915-07-02
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approved by all hitherto; though we
have not yet tried the sound we are
making a clock for it of our own
manufacture, which we expect will
prove better than any they would
send us from England, where once
they had it put out of their hands they
have done with it, but here the work
man would be made very uneasy if he
did not exert his utmost skill as we
do not stint him in price of his labor.
The Superintlndens, (of the State
House, by me, return their thanks
a bell"
The American spirit already was
expressing itself. Superintendent
Norris tells the further story:
The Superintendent had the NOR
LITIGATION TO hear that it was cracked
by a stroke of the clapper without
any other violence, as it was hung
to try the sound. We concluded to
send it back by Captain Budden but
he could not take it aboard, upon
which two ingenious workmen I'M
dertook to cast it here, and | am just
now March, 1889 informed they
have this day opened the mould and
have got good bell, which | confess
pleases me very much, that we should
first venture upon and succeed in the
greatest bell cast, for aught | know,
in English America.
The mould was fashioned in very
mastery manner and the letters, |
am told, are better than in the old one.
When we broke up the metal our
judges here generally agreed it was
too high and brittle, and cast several
little bells out of it to try the sound
and strength. We fixed upon a mix
ture of an ounce and one-half of cop
per 10 one pornd of the old bell, and
in this proportion we now have it"
And it is said, too, by a diarist of
bell had been ordered with the Bib
lical quotation below the "order of
the Assembly" it came with reversed
inscriptions-in the form of the Bell
of this very day
But when the bell was rung its
tones were not clear-perhaps the
Ounce and a half of copper" which
our Judges" had recommended was
responsible. The people criticised.
and the two ingenious workmen,
Pass and Stow, insisted on another
opportunity, and in June, 1888, the
bell was recast and again hung in the
steeple." Says the maryland Ga
zette," July S, 1883: Philadelphia,
June 7. Last week was raised and
fixed in the State House steeple the
new great Bell cast here by Pass and
Stow, weighing 1850 lbs" Pass and
Stow received 90 pounds, IA shillings,
S pence fundamentally. They had
procured in America the Bell which
every American holds sacred
But in those olden days there was
nothing at all sacred about it.
The people were not quite satisfied.
And on one petition which the AS
sembly received the complaining resi-
dnt alleged that he suffered distress
by the ringing of the Bell, and he
therefore begged TO be relieved from
this dangerous Inconvenience, ex-
cept at the time of the meetings of
the HONORABLE Assembly and the
Courts of Justice" The London
send another bell.
When it arrived. Superintendent
Norris says, "the difference, in COM
pairing them, is not very great" In
August. 1854, it was ordered that the
new bell be retained. The English
America Bell, however, remained in
the tower. The other bell disappears
from history, The American Bell
makes--certainly at least records-his-
tory henceforth.
Elevated then to the steeple of the
State House, in the summer of 1888,
il sounded in tones whose reverbera-
lions ever carried further and more
deeply into the hearts of the people
the hopes and the determinations of
the Colonists, to whom freedom was
more precious than life itself
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