Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1935-06-26

. All NV Philadelphia, voted in favor OF &
-AA-M resolution, offered by Richard
lfsstHHH M Henry Lee of Virginia, "that these
. SsS1 MI United Colonies are, and Of righ
% states: Ss ;",, the nss'.,.tsa of
.@ dependence, rewritten from the Lee
resolution by Thomas Jefferson, aided by Ben
jamin Franklin and John Adams, was formally
adopted by the congress.
"a On July the ringing Of bell summoned the
citizens Of Philadelphia to the state house ward
to hear an important announcement read. When
they had assembled, Col. John Nixon ascended
to crude platform, built in the yard by the
Philosophical society in 1869 for astronomical
observations and left standing there for occa-
sional use as public rostrum.
d A moment later his voice doomed out the open-
Ing words Of an immortal document-"When in
the course Of human events, it becomes neces-
sary for one people to dissolve the political
ponds which have connected them with another,
and to assume among the powers of the earth
the separate and equal station to which the
laws OF nature and of natures God entitle Them
decent respect to the opinions of mankind
requires that they should declare the causes
which impel them to the separation"
ID, The bell which had summoned the people to
near this document had been known hereto
fore as the Province bell. Here, III brief was it's
history up to that historic moment:
u Cast by Thomas Lester (or Lister) of White
chapel, London, upon order Of the Pennsyl-
ania assembly, it arrived in PHILADELPHIA in
august, 1852. But, to the dismay of the provin
cial authorities the bell proved defective ami
&c mad to be recast twice by two ingenious work
men, John Pass, and Charles Stow Jr In re-
casting the bell they substituted their own
names for that of the original English maker
and also changed the date on the bell from
1852 to 1853. But more important was the fact
that the inscription, composed by Isaac Norris
chairman Of the superintendent of the state
house, was retained on it. It was from the
Bible Leviticus XIV 1O-"Proclaim liberty
throughout all the land to all the inhabitants
thereof"
Prophetic Of the role it was to play in the
struggle for liberty were such occasions, when
It was rung, as these:
1t first sounded on the afternoon of August |
"a, 1853, to call the provincial assembly to.
gether and in that session the assembly resolved
to make and continue the use of Province money |
contrary to the orders of the lords justices of |
the crown. /
On February 3, 1857, it called the assembly |
together again when they directed "Mr Frank |
lin" to "go home to England" to ask for redress |
Of colonial grievances.
On October S, 1865, it was muffled and tol1ed |
when the ship Royal Charlotte bearing the
hated stamps for Pennsylvania, New Jersey and
Delaware came up the river under convoy Of a
royal British warship and it summoned the
citizens to a town meeting where they resolved
not to permit the stamps to be landed
On September q, ITO, it assembled the peo-
pie in the state house yard and they there re-
solved that the claims Of parliament to tax the
.Olonies trespassed upon their constitutional
lights, that the union of the colonies ought to be
and that anyone who imported Eng
ish goods into Philadelphia, contrary to these
esolutions, was an enemy to the peace and
rood order of the city.
On June I, 1774, the bell was muffI~d and
oiled again in sympathy with the people of
Boston on the closing Of their port by the
rown authorities.
On April 25 1775 after the news of the Battle
i Lexington had been received, the bell called {
Ogether "eight thousand people by computa-
ion' and they unanimously agreed ito associate
OF the purpose of defending with arms, their
ves, liberty and property against all attempts
D deprive them of them" t
Thus in the clear notes of this famous old
ell can be traced the successive steps leading q
b to that historic day, July 8, 1776 when the {
Ell rang out once more-loudly, joyousIy- L
proclaiming liberty throughout all the land S
nto all the inhabitants thereof" Before this b
me it had been the Province bell. From that a
me on, forever, it was the Liberty Bell. c
On September IL, TIT, Gen George Washing a
ID and his $4,000 Continentals were defeated c
Y General Howe and his $4,000 British at the o
attic of Brandywine. In Washington's army 2
as young Virgnian named John Marshall, the "
,n of Col. Thomas Marshall, who before the | q
evolution opened had foreseen the coming of e