History of the flag of the United States of America : and of the naval and yacht-club signals, seals, and arms, and principal national songs of the United States, with a chronicle of the symbols, standards, banners, and flags of ancient and modern nations . Du Siinitieres Design. G84 THE SEAL AND AHMS OF IIIE UNrTEI) STATES. ^vantouly reclining on the ground, displa^iiig the clinrnis hoth of liereloquence and person to seduce him into vice. Jefrerson proposed The Cliildren uf Israel in the Wilderness, ledby a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night; and on the otherside, Hengist and Horsa,
History of the flag of the United States of America : and of the naval and yacht-club signals, seals, and arms, and principal national songs of the United States, with a chronicle of the symbols, standards, banners, and flags of ancient and modern nations . Du Siinitieres Design. G84 THE SEAL AND AHMS OF IIIE UNrTEI) STATES. ^vantouly reclining on the ground, displa^iiig the clinrnis hoth of liereloquence and person to seduce him into vice. Jefrerson proposed The Cliildren uf Israel in the Wilderness, ledby a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night; and on the otherside, Hengist and Horsa, the Saxon chiefs, from whom we claim thehonor of being descended, and whose political principles and form ofovernment we have assumed. At the request of the other members of the committee, Jeffersonattempted to combine the several ideas presented in one compactdesign, and on the 10th of August, 1776, the committee reported thefollowing device and explanation thereof, which was ordered to Lieupon the table : —. Jeffersons Design, 1776. The great seal should on one side have the arms of the UnitedStates of America, which arms should be as follows : — The shield has six quarters, parti one, coupi two. The first or, anenamelled rose, gules and argent, for England; the second argent, athistle proper, for Scotland ; the third vert, a harp or, for Ireland ; thefourth azure, a fleur-de-lis or, for France; the fifth or, the imperial eagle,sahle, for Germany; and the sixth or, the Belgic crowned lion, gules, forHolland, — pointing out the countries from which the States havebeen peopled. The shield within a border, gules, entwined of thirteenescutcheons, argent, linked together by a chain or, each charged withinitial salle letters, as follows: 1st, IST. H., 2d, Mass., 3d, E. I., 4th, drawn by Benson J. Lossing, , from the description of it reported to Congress. Seean interesting article on the subject in Harpers Magazine, for 1856, by Mr. Lossing,also Wellss Illustrated Handbo
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