A history of the United States . Old Statehouse in Philadelphia, nowKNOWN AS Independence Hall. 1 Born, 1706 ; died, 1790. Apprenticed in Boston as a printer, anddeveloped great fondness for reading and writing ; ran away to Philadelphiain 1723 : established a newspaper in 1729 ; advanced rapidly iu prominencethrough his talents as a writer and success as a scientific discoverer ; wasappointed Deputy Postmaster-general of the British colonies in 1753 ; was themoving spirit of the Albany convention in 1754 ; was agent for Pennsylvaniaiu England from 1764 to the Revolution ; also for a part of t
A history of the United States . Old Statehouse in Philadelphia, nowKNOWN AS Independence Hall. 1 Born, 1706 ; died, 1790. Apprenticed in Boston as a printer, anddeveloped great fondness for reading and writing ; ran away to Philadelphiain 1723 : established a newspaper in 1729 ; advanced rapidly iu prominencethrough his talents as a writer and success as a scientific discoverer ; wasappointed Deputy Postmaster-general of the British colonies in 1753 ; was themoving spirit of the Albany convention in 1754 ; was agent for Pennsylvaniaiu England from 1764 to the Revolution ; also for a part of the time agent for § 165] THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. 125. Benjamin Frankliw. Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Georgia; returning in 1775, was one of thecommittee to draw up the Declaration of Independence; was sent to joinArthur Lee and Silas Deane as Ministers to France in autumn of 1776; wasreceived with great enthusiasm in Paris, and obtained not only the Treaty of1778, but also large sums of money for the assistance of the colonies ; playedan important part in negotiating the Treaty of 1783; was chosen president ofPennsylvania in 1785, 1786, and 1787, and was an influential member of theFederal Convention of 1787. 126 THE CAMPAIGNS OF 1775 AND 1776. [§ 166 Declaration, it was not a contest against the parliamentarygovernment of Great Britain, but a contest against those un-constitutional usurpations of the Crown to which the colonieswould not submit. From this point of view many modern j:..- ,, M—~<v--5? ,yA/-<«?.- _^.a__.•,;. T ^ Ill. ^Ky^ f*VyT\.^^.J(yyC/r^ ^^^«-^v<Xv»-Lxfj /t^-At>
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