. The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes . the Bell, with joyous from its brazen throat,Rings the tidings, all-exultant—peals thenews from shore to sea : Man is man— a slave no and Right than Might are to God ! we re free y tee re free . THE HOME OF THE LIBERTY BELL 79 They lingered long over the extensive collection of revolutionary relicsin the museum room; they visited the Congress Hall, where Washingtonand Adams had both been inaugurated ; they hunted up the Supreme Courtroom in which had
. The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes . the Bell, with joyous from its brazen throat,Rings the tidings, all-exultant—peals thenews from shore to sea : Man is man— a slave no and Right than Might are to God ! we re free y tee re free . THE HOME OF THE LIBERTY BELL 79 They lingered long over the extensive collection of revolutionary relicsin the museum room; they visited the Congress Hall, where Washingtonand Adams had both been inaugurated ; they hunted up the Supreme Courtroom in which had presided John Jay and Oliver Ellsworth, earliest of chief-justices. They studied or recalled all the associations that make Independ-ence Hall so notable an object lesson in American history, and Marianstood before the ancient fireplace in the Philosophical rooms on the exactspot where Washington posed for the celebrated Gilbert Stuart portrait. Gilbert Stuart! said Bert, O, dont you remember? we found hisgrave in Boston. Yes, in the old burying ground, inside of Boston Common, TABLE AND CHAIRS USED AT THE SIGNING OFTHE DECLARATION. They visited Carpenters Hall, farther down Chestnut street — a quaintreminder of colonial times, hedged about by great modern buildings, but withtiny courtyard and grass-plots. They read the inscription above the doorsof the audience room: Within these walls, Henry, Hancock, and Adamsinspired the delegates of the colonies with nerve and sinew for the toils ofwar, and then were quite ready to hunt up that historic corner of Seventhand Walnut streets where, so the tablet in the new bank building announcedto them, had stood the house in which Jefferson wrote the Declaration. 8o THE CENTURY BOOK OF FAMOUS AMERICANS
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