. A larger history of the United States of America, to the close of President Jackson's administration . eading of Rollins Belles-lettres and theEpistles of Pliny the Younger. Yet any one who has evertaken part in difficult or dangerous actions can understand theimmense relief derived from that half hours relapse into thestill air of delightful studies. And it is probable that Jeffersonand his companions, even while discussing the title-deed of ourliberties, may have let their talk stray over a hundred collateralthemes as remote from the immediate task as were Pliny andRollin. During three day
. A larger history of the United States of America, to the close of President Jackson's administration . eading of Rollins Belles-lettres and theEpistles of Pliny the Younger. Yet any one who has evertaken part in difficult or dangerous actions can understand theimmense relief derived from that half hours relapse into thestill air of delightful studies. And it is probable that Jeffersonand his companions, even while discussing the title-deed of ourliberties, may have let their talk stray over a hundred collateralthemes as remote from the immediate task as were Pliny andRollin. During three days—the second, third, and fourth of July—the Declaration was debated in the Congress. The most vividhistoric glimpse of that debate is in Franklins consolatory an-ecdote, told to Jefferson, touching John Thompson, the hatter. 276 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. The amendments adopted by Congress have always been ac-counted as improvements, because tending in the direction ofconciseness and simplicity, though the loss of that stern condem-nation of the slave-trade—a piratical warfare against human. VIEW OF INDEPENDENCE HALL, THROUGH THE SQUARE. nature itself —has always been regretted. The amended docu-rnent was finally adopted, like the Virginia resolution, by thevote of twelve colonies. New York still abstaining. If ThomasMcKeans reminiscences at eighty can be trusted, it cost anoth-er effort to secure this strong vote, and Cccsar Rodney had again THE GREAT DECLARATION. 277 to be sent for to secure the Delaware delegation. McKeansays, in a letter written in 1814 to John Adams, I sent an,express for Caesar Rodney to Dover, in the county of Kent, inDelaware, at my private expense, whom I met at the State-house door on the 4th of July, in his boots; he resided eightymiles from the city, and just arrived as Congress met. Jeffer-son has, however, thrown much doubt over these octogenarianrecollections by McKean, and thinks that he confounded thedifferent votes together. There i
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