. Benjamin Franklin: his autobiography : with a narrative of his public life and services. on the com-mittee. The Declaration, substantially as Jeffersondrafted it, was reported on the 28th of June. Onthe 1st of July, the original resolution was carried bynine of the thirteen colonies, Pennsylvania andSouth Carolina voting against it, Delaware being di-vided, and New York being permitted to withdrawon account of the character of the instructions of thedelegates, dated twelve months before, which enjoin-ed them to do nothing to impede reconciliation withthe mother country. The votes of the memb
. Benjamin Franklin: his autobiography : with a narrative of his public life and services. on the com-mittee. The Declaration, substantially as Jeffersondrafted it, was reported on the 28th of June. Onthe 1st of July, the original resolution was carried bynine of the thirteen colonies, Pennsylvania andSouth Carolina voting against it, Delaware being di-vided, and New York being permitted to withdrawon account of the character of the instructions of thedelegates, dated twelve months before, which enjoin-ed them to do nothing to impede reconciliation withthe mother country. The votes of the members, itwill be recollected, were taken by colonies, eachcolony having one vote. All the colonies came intothe measure by the adoption of the Declaration, andall the members present on the 4th of July signedthe Declaration, except John Dickinson. He re-tired from public life for two years, when he resumedhis place in Congress, and was distinguished for hiszeal, as he had ever been respected for his was a mind the scruples of which were to be i{Hi{i|,iil|ill,ynl|;{IM |>. \ \ LIFE OF FRANKLIN. 487 respected, as his conduct was ever guided by thepurest of motives. An amusing instance of Frank-hns humor is preserved in connection with the sig-nature. We must be unanimous, said Hancock; we must all hang together. Yes, answeredFranklin, or most assuredly we shall all hang sep-arately. Jeffersons draft, which received in com-mittee only a few verbal alterations, in the courseof the debate in Congress was amended in very many,and some essential particulars, as may be perceivedby the original draft as preserved in his Correspond-ence. FrankUn, who saw his uneasiness under thecriticisms of his colleagues, consoled and amusedhim with an anecdote of a hatter, whose inscriptionfor a sign, John Thompson, Hatter, makes andsells hats for ready money, was reduced by the criti-cisms of friends to plain John Thompson, with thefigure of a hat subjoined. Dr. FrankUn had a remarkable
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