. A larger history of the United States of America, to the close of President Jackson's administration . f the signers of thegreat Declaration, and these papers comprise the diaries ofseveral such journeys. Their simple records rarely includebursts of patriotism or predictions of national glory, but theycontain many plaintive chronicles of bad beds and worse food,mingled with pleasant glimpses of wayside chat, and now andthen a bit of character-painting that recalls the jovial narra-tives of Fielding. Sometimes they give a passing rumor ofthe glorious news of the surrendering of the Colonel of
. A larger history of the United States of America, to the close of President Jackson's administration . f the signers of thegreat Declaration, and these papers comprise the diaries ofseveral such journeys. Their simple records rarely includebursts of patriotism or predictions of national glory, but theycontain many plaintive chronicles of bad beds and worse food,mingled with pleasant glimpses of wayside chat, and now andthen a bit of character-painting that recalls the jovial narra-tives of Fielding. Sometimes they give a passing rumor ofthe glorious news of the surrendering of the Colonel of theQueens Dragoons with his whole army, but more commonlythey celebrate milk toddy and bread and butter after a wet-ting, or the best dish of Bohea tea I have drank for a twelve-month. When they arrived at Philadelphia, the delegatesput up their horses, changed their riding gear for those gar-ments which Trumbull has immortalized, and gathered to In-dependence Hall to greet their brother delegates, to inter-change the gossip of the day, to repeat Dr. Franklins last 266 HISTORY OF THE UNITED TRUMBULLS SIGNING OF THE DECLARATION. anecdote or Francis Hopkinsons last joke; then proceeding,when the business of the day was opened, to lay the foundationfor a new nation. Before the 19th of April, 1775, said Jefferson,! hadnever heard a whisper of a disposition to separate from themother-country. Washington said: When I first took com-mand of the army (July 3, 1775), I abhorred the idea of inde-pendence ; but I am now fully convinced that nothing elsewill save us. It is only by dwelling on such words as thesethat we can measure that vast educational process whichbrought the American people to the Declaration of Indepen-dence in 1776. The Continental Congress, in the earlier months of thatyear, had for many days been steadily drifting on towards thedistinct assertion of separate sovereignty, and had declared it THE GREAT DECLARATION. 267 irreconcilable with reason and a good co
Size: 1918px × 1303px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bo, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, bookidlargerhistoryofu01higg
