The world: historical and actual . GENEBAL JOHN HAX?tx K. State legislatures ana disguise and boldly announce independence. Acommittee for that purpose was appointed, consist-ing of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, BenjaminFranklin, Robert Livingston and Roger declaration was submitted by Jefferson, who issupposed to have written it. His was certainly thepen of a ready writer. The members signed it,John Hancock, the Presi-dent, leading off with hisbold sign manual. Thecountry was fairly electrifiedby the declaration. It in-spired the patriotism of allsections, and for the timeob
The world: historical and actual . GENEBAL JOHN HAX?tx K. State legislatures ana disguise and boldly announce independence. Acommittee for that purpose was appointed, consist-ing of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, BenjaminFranklin, Robert Livingston and Roger declaration was submitted by Jefferson, who issupposed to have written it. His was certainly thepen of a ready writer. The members signed it,John Hancock, the Presi-dent, leading off with hisbold sign manual. Thecountry was fairly electrifiedby the declaration. It in-spired the patriotism of allsections, and for the timeobliterated provincial preju-dices and converted thirteencolonies into states. Hence-forth there was no recogni-tion of colonial obligations,governors were elected and the mechanism of localself-government set up at once, and substantially asnow. There was no nation then, only the embry-onic elements of one, but the states, like Minerva,sprang forth fully armed. It is a curious fact thatthe great art which originated and was completed ona broadly
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