Young folks' history of the United States . under discussion. The Declaration of Independence was adopted July signing the ^ , 1 • .1 .1 / Decla- 4, 1776, though It was not signed until some weeks ration,later. When the members of Congress came up tosign, Dr. Franklin was still ready with his cheerful Hancock, who headed it, said to the others, Wemust be unanimous : there must be no pulling differentways : we must all hang together.— Yes, said Frank-lin, we must all hang together, or else we shall all hang 198 The Declar-ationadopted. YOUNG FOLKS UNITED STATES. separately. We can imag
Young folks' history of the United States . under discussion. The Declaration of Independence was adopted July signing the ^ , 1 • .1 .1 / Decla- 4, 1776, though It was not signed until some weeks ration,later. When the members of Congress came up tosign, Dr. Franklin was still ready with his cheerful Hancock, who headed it, said to the others, Wemust be unanimous : there must be no pulling differentways : we must all hang together.— Yes, said Frank-lin, we must all hang together, or else we shall all hang 198 The Declar-ationadopted. YOUNG FOLKS UNITED STATES. separately. We can imagine how they all may havelaughed at this. But it was really a dangerous respon-sibility that they were taking ; and no doubt there weresome anxious hearts even among those who laughed. But at last the great Declaration was adopted, with-out being much altered. The principal change wasin striking out a passage which condemned the kingof England, more severely than some of the Southernmembers approved, for his support of the OLD STATE HOUSE, PHILADELPHIA. In its final form it was adopted by twelve colonies;Rejoicings. Ncw York Still declining to vote. It had been privatelyresolved that, when it was passed, the bell of theold State House should be rung. This was a bellwhich had been put up some twenty years before, andwhich bore the inscription, Proclaim liberty through-out the land to all the inhabitants thereof. So theold bell-ringer placed his little boy at the hall-door toawait the signal of the door-keeper; and, when inde-pendence was declared at last, the door-keeper gave THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. 199 the signal, and the boy ran out, exclaiming, Ring,ring, ring ! Then the bell rang out joyfully, proclaim-ing liberty to all the land. There were rejoicings every-where ; and the Declaration was read to each brigade inthe army. This is the way the Pennsylvania Journal described the excitement: — This afternoon (July 10) the Declaration of Inde-pendence
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