A first book in American history with European beginnings . Hamilton advocatedthe payment of the national debt with interest, established asystem of taxation, and provided for the establishment of aNational Bank and a Mint. XXVI THOMAS JEFFERSON AUTHOR OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE On that day when Patrick Henry offered his resolu-tions against the Stamp Act, he had other hearers besidesthe members of the Virginia House of Burgesses. Near the door stood a tall, gawkyyoung man with sandy hair,freckled face, and large handsand feet. He was ThomasJefferson, who was later towrite Americas Dec
A first book in American history with European beginnings . Hamilton advocatedthe payment of the national debt with interest, established asystem of taxation, and provided for the establishment of aNational Bank and a Mint. XXVI THOMAS JEFFERSON AUTHOR OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE On that day when Patrick Henry offered his resolu-tions against the Stamp Act, he had other hearers besidesthe members of the Virginia House of Burgesses. Near the door stood a tall, gawkyyoung man with sandy hair,freckled face, and large handsand feet. He was ThomasJefferson, who was later towrite Americas Declarationof Independence. Jefferson was the son ofa well-to-do Virginia 1760, when seventeenyears old, he came to Will-iamsburg and entered Will-iam and Mary College. After-wards he took up the studyand practice of law, at whichhe proved himself a greatsuccess. When, early in 1775, theHouse of Burgesses met at Richmond, Jefferson was amember. Here he heard Patrick Henrys second stirringspeech—the speech denouncing all efforts at peace and 268. THOMAS JEFFERSON for himself choosing liberty or death. Jefferson was thrilledby Henrys eloquence and heartily approved his motionthat Virginia be immediately put into a state of defense. Later in that same year Jefferson was sent to representVirginia at the Continental Congress, which met in Phil-adelphia. The crisis had come. England had thoroughly rousedthe blood of her American colonists. Fighting had begun, rff; Signing of the Declaration of Independence. and dependence on England was no longer to be was time for America to declare her rights and claim herfreedom. So in June, 1776, John Adams, Benjamin Frank-lin, Roger Sherman, Robert R. Livingston, and ThomasJefferson were appointed to draw up a declaration of thecolonies independence. Thanks to Jeffersons early training, he had developedinto a powerful writer; and it now fell to his lot to draftthis all-important paper. He worked on it for three the
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