Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-06-30

lasted over until the next and July would have become the birthday instead of July A.
 Toward evening the discomfort O. the as sembly was increased on account or the sWafms of flies which came from nearby livery staoie 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 reporteu the declaration to congress as accepted tnous in the minutes of that day the declaratlon was at first left out account of the vengeance oi Ehe land ~
 Today Independence hall in the old state house in Pbiladelphia remains about as 1t was on that July A. and so as far the setting or the stage the drama is complete, but the drama tseH IS left for us to supply.
 All that we have left of the record or tha. memorable day is the text of the Declaration or Independence, and that represents what all brave American colonists ready to lay doWl their lives for and what should be handed down to us and guarded as courageousy as It hau been won the Fourth of July has amply served it's purpose and deserved it's one monunleh'' "'The Spirit of Liberty for All.
 Whether or not the Declaration or hue- pendence was signed on July 4, IT'S, by any put Hancock as president of the Contlnentai con gress and Thompson, as secretary IS d ma''ei of doubt for the journal entry records sleneo by order of and in behalf of congress- Jener- son himself made conflicting statements regard ing this question.
 Some contend that the delegates met lnlorhaF Iv on the morning of July 5 and signed the docu- ment Whether or not the signatures were ai fixed on July 4, congress- act was oHclal oh lhae day that Jefferson's Declaration of independence was declared acceptable to every colony And so it resolved that copies should De sent throuehou' the new-formed republic
 The general assemblies conventions, councils committees of safety and the commanding ohcers of the Continental army had to be informed or the independence of the United States Ihese comics were signed by Hancock and Thompson The Congressional Record of July l9 shoWs that , resolution was introduced in the national as sembly to the effect that the declaration should be engrossed parchment and presented Tor the signature of every member on August 2
 This fact therefore, serves 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 of Independence which considered for so many years the original draft of the great bill of rights of the American people, It is said that even this signing entered into with fear and trembling"
 Satisfied that the signed parchment was lasting evidence of the birth of the new nation congress took no further official action regarding the instruments itself until January, 1777.
 By that time the new republic began to feel it's strength, and congress decided to promulgate the names of the signers of the Declaration or ln dependence by ordering that printed copies or the document should be made with the names or the signers added.
 Mary Katharine Goddard, woman who car ried on the printing business on Broadside, Bal timore. probably never heard of womans rights, vet 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 boasted at least one copy of the original document which gave life to our republic.