. A larger history of the United States of America, to the close of President Jackson's administration . ign-ina:, the tale has been often told. It has been told so often,if the truth must be confessed, that it is not now easy to dis-tinguish the romance from the simple fact. The local anti-quarians of Philadelphia bid us dismiss forever from the recordthe picturesque old bell-ringer and his eager boy, waitingbreathlessly to announce to the assembled thousands the finalvote of Congress on the Declaration. The tale is declared tobe a pure fiction, of which there exists not even a local tradi-ti
. A larger history of the United States of America, to the close of President Jackson's administration . ign-ina:, the tale has been often told. It has been told so often,if the truth must be confessed, that it is not now easy to dis-tinguish the romance from the simple fact. The local anti-quarians of Philadelphia bid us dismiss forever from the recordthe picturesque old bell-ringer and his eager boy, waitingbreathlessly to announce to the assembled thousands the finalvote of Congress on the Declaration. The tale is declared tobe a pure fiction, of which there exists not even a local tradi-tion. The sessions of Congress were then secret, and therewas no expectant crowd outside. It was not till the fifth of 28o HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. July that Congress sentout circulars announc-ing the Declaration; nottill the sixth that it ap-peared in a Philadelphianewspaper; and not tillthe eighth that it wasread by John Nixon inthe yard of Indepen-dence Hall. It was readfrom, an observatorythere erected by theAmerican PhilosophicalSociety, seven yearsbefore, to observe thetransit of Venus. The. TEARING DOWN THE KINGS ARMS FROM ABOVE THE DOOR IN THE CHAMBER OFTHE SUPREME COURT ROOM IN INDEPENDENCE HALL, JULY 8, 1776. THE GREAT DECLARATION. 281 kings arms over the door of the Supreme Court room in Inde-pendence Hall were torn down by a committee of the Volun-teer force called associators ; these trophies were burned inthe evening, in the presence of a great crowd of citizens, andno doubt amid the joyful pealing of the old Independencebell. There is also a tradition that on the afternoon of thatday, or possibly a day or two earlier, there was a joyful private
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