. Our country's story; an elementary history of the United States . to storm another hillwith Americans at the 17, 1776, Howe and hisarmy sailed away for is why Boston celebratesthe Seventeenth of March asEvacuation Day. The British did mole thanto take themselves away ; theycarried with them nearly athousand citizens who stoodby the king, and, either be-cause of haste or because theboats were crowded, quanti-ties of powder and many can-non were left behind. The (On Beacon Street, neir the State House Demolished ) prCSCUCe of thcSe articleS WaS as welcome to the Ame
. Our country's story; an elementary history of the United States . to storm another hillwith Americans at the 17, 1776, Howe and hisarmy sailed away for is why Boston celebratesthe Seventeenth of March asEvacuation Day. The British did mole thanto take themselves away ; theycarried with them nearly athousand citizens who stoodby the king, and, either be-cause of haste or because theboats were crowded, quanti-ties of powder and many can-non were left behind. The (On Beacon Street, neir the State House Demolished ) prCSCUCe of thcSe articleS WaS as welcome to the Americans as was the absence of the would surely go to New York, thought Washington ; there-fore he and his army went to Xew York to be ready for them. July 4, 177(>, saw the great event of the year. On a table in theState House in Philadelphia lay a document. Fifty-six men signedtheir names to it. That was all, but this act was the beginning 1 ii ?-\4i, ?ION FIRST TWO YEARS OF THE REVOLUTION 149. of the United States, for the document was the Declaration of The Decla-Independence. It named one by one tlie acts of injustice of wliich independ-the king had been guilty. Then it declared, enceThat these united colonies are, and of rightought to be, free and independent states. The man who wrote the Declaration wasThomas Jefferson, a Virginian, and one of theyoungest men in Congress. He was a lawyer,a musician, a skillful horseman, a student, agentle, kindly man, but firm as an oak in theTHE LIBERTY BELL causc of liberty. It required much courage tosign this paper, for if England won, the signers would be lookedupon as the leaders of the rebellion and would receive the mostsevere punishment. We must all hang together, or we shallhang separately, said Franklin. John Hancock wrote his namein a large, bold hand, So that KingGeorge can read it without specta-cles, he declared. When CharlesCarroll signed, some one jestinglysaid, You are safe, for thereare so many CarroUs in
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