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iWitttt :;"7 -nut -e ". Jifr? f If (if fWi 6 f , i - r f I ,'( Y.Ol'4' it 'I tito Library .nan ni) Ml I.I I O" Kir io imntjtu -jilt CMKIOT, N. Cj, MAY'20p8i. PRICE IVE CENt$: ,pA f vj sr 53t jpss, . Mr . : 11 rrny u ro jJUU'jJU- - U it Lr v.r'VViTW ' t l,J"' M''"'UJ i i , 4 1 1 1 CI W . 'J iift .; Si (II -. v - I Uv- vlt r J; 1 1! I 1 T 1 it i v I' h! lr i I il I; II 1.1 11 - ?d IH tS- 111 i I J-f,lf- J. f U, I 1 ff I IM.-s.li 3 i I III) I : I. I II I'll II I H K u iito thee, tnou gooa m or. AU""'t0t1tl.i he band I . l,c" . . rt : t 1:1 . ;n thio jged the "s Vl uwlJr 1U oar i ntive land ! A111 . . onnrn the voke : tyrant 9 fetlCrB llOUi men "nuua at lnburg tby broke. vitd foresight ihkj pb.wssed, on ,11 brink to pause, ..,.a f,r a sister State to lead in i'17 , annul Ourlivour fortunes, waste, cry ; our honors and otir all, i : i answer to uei Loin every heart therj r-se a shout r aVn loorer will w lie abmissive at the. tyrants feet: we'll cooquor or we n cue ; r A.m and our liberties we'll ?ar ireful" brave proua infianas nosi i x .,t.inH n.iii fArrl rtrrtvoft was no brai2iri iaie uoa. here Eogland found a worthy foe her far famed steel nao met ; inn as tbe rock our fathers stood and crcseed the bayonet; Locked in the fierce embrace of stsel tbey bravely met their death, name, PiTote your time and talents i re trieve her tarnished, rame. fit Hi BCatWieu kotwugu m uuxwu, (and by your s;ernug wortn, re enriching every State save that which gare you birth. Vhff'''r JUUI WUU"WH TUUaVTW vour ar found, , , f ,, la the ranks of th mechanic; or as til lers of th groaDd, Among the laarned professioLS, in the lgis'ative hall. Is sailors or as soldisrs, je excel .in v each and all. ' '. ' u Jl To stiady perserverence, 'for honesty and truth, Thesoni of Carolina are faaaous fcon thfir youth. Thon why desert Ifcese naountaina where first your ardent soul, .. . Flashed forth th fire of genius uaf t- tered by control ? : ? Wky leave ker peaceful bosom, her rich sod fertile soil, To eek an El Dorado, for . c old to dig and toil ? i ;, i ; :. i !. Ah Ideep beneath her surface ahe htdet many an ore, Rich fold si pure as Ophir or Califor nia's nere. I.till you ys are wanting Jo the noble pride of Stale; .....- Or thiw you'd not desert her and Iuve her desolate r r it THE 20TII OF MAY AJlD 4TH OF fUL.Y.i;:: , Tie Old and the Hew Styl-An later st in g Extract Front tlie Wd Fayetteville "Observer" PabUsbed in 1838. I f Capt. Eobert D. Graharri, who has recently moved to Washington City, under the date of April 26, writes the following interesting letter in stimony of the validity Of. the Oth May Declaration : X i Of what I have written of the rue date of the 'organization and amtestoes of the Independent ? - r - ommittee or Congress of Mecklen- urg,this is the substance : ! reason whatever has ever ,bcen advanced for disbelieving the viaenee of the evo witnftss who bulled and were! never contra by their cotemporaries, that organized- on the ,19th of 1775. :M MM 6' ihe day of the reading out the aU8crints fnluratt to the assem- FIei multitude, is "confirmed by van tm as the 20th. r J ' : I - the printed date of the "attest- F copy of the whole proceedings" fuBLHAnnA .1 .. iii .Hi f - -uB oq xne miaiiiDiiity oi ibb ariestown" typos of June, 1775: fl v jp vwuvivy,ai VIU ' ,MV f lnted 31st wasVritten on this at- ested copy, 21st. While frt 9i i --uvia our caienuar, it f not so with therlndenendents. tf thPren bythe &cial actions er8 and the execution of deeds i. - , . . . ise htr U .. - . 8tead nf u Pfopie, the 3ist, m Mth ? tbo 2lst, was a Sunday Q them, and this is at once a TRADITION sufficient reason for reflecting that date as. ..misprint, or an alteration fcQni; theban uscrpt&;ta e ilgste copy, and refusing to celebrate the 31st as the N. S. date of the "digest ed resolves." 7: The N. S. date of this latter document would not then be the 31st of-May, but the 1st of June. - 8 Newspapers of j the colonial period, and also the established churches,' f wherever,. founds kept English time out Mecklenburg then had neither. No wjfj there .are those who still contend for a conclusion without any other premises thanf their sus pieiorrthat tfie' old patriots did not and could not, tell the exact truth as to the days o'f the month, I mustJ bid them adieu in the language of the nuer who refused to adopt the choice of route claimed by his mule, and say : "I will not argue with you or any of your kin folks." Let us turn then to the several manuscripts on the subject of Inde pendence emanating from Mecklen.' burgjn theyear 1775. In this let terj only an introduction : to , this branch of the subject will be given. In a recent interview with Senator M. W. Eansom, after reiterating his faith in the document of the 20th. i thev bravely met tneir aeaiu, , -- t j i i ' mejrwi .-... nA and, as Mr. Bayard so happily put reh b )re hu foaman to the ground, ., ' .... , y... r picnDJio"" v , it, in "the traditions of a virtuous and intelligent people," heremarked that his father had seen the original draft of the 4th of July Declaration, and often mentioned the number of interlineations displayed in the manuscript. xnis "traaiuon' i nna connrmea 1 1 r i-i r- oy tne ioiiowinsr extract irom a newspaper of May 4, 1838, kindly loaned me by Mrs. Thos. J. Holton, of Charlotte : From the Fayetteville Observer, 18S8. The Mecklenburg Declaration. It is with no little surprise that we nnd the editor of the Charleston Courier, in his paper of Saturday last, expressing a doubt of the genuineness of this interesting document. It is some years since the testimony was embodied and published, and it may have gone put ot the mind of the editor, and he may never evenihave seen it; but if any fact in history may be con sidered as estjablishecL settled be yond cavil, it is this: that on the 20th of May, 1775, a Convention of Delegates irom each Captain s com pany in Mecklenburg, adopted, a.midst the cheers of a large portion -V7.il ' ' 'i J n . i- , oi tne people oi tno county, an em phatic- Declaration of their Inde pendence yof Great; Britain. This happened immediately after the news of the Battle of Lexington was received. Audi the temporary government which was -thereupon established was" continued in full and vyigoroiis! operation! Until it was superceded b the adoption of the St&e 'Constitution in 1776. The evidences of the authenticity or tne' Jjeciaration are numerous, and of unquestionable veracity. Tho statement of Major John Davidson, the last surviving signer ; the certificate ;of Capt. James Jack, then .oi Charlotte, whero .the Con yention . assembled, but recently o Elbert county, Georgia, who was the bearer of the Declaration to Congress at Philadelphia: the Manuscript Journal of Rev. Hum phrey Hunter, an eye-witness of. the whole proceeding, and wbicb gives ariexact copy of the Declaration the statements of Gen. Joseph Graham, of Lincoln, and Col. Wm Pulk, of Raleigh, two as honorable1 men as any age or State ever pro duced, who, though now no more lived long enough to bear conclusive testimony to the occurrences of that day, of which they were both eye witnesses, would seem to be sum cient to establish the fact. But this is not all. The Journal of the Pro vincial Congress of; North Carolina shows that a copy, was,. laid before that ' . body ; on the !25h day of : . i. irv ml. . ' l I i i- ja.ugU8i, 1 1 1 o. x oe original oook iu which the proceedings were record ed was destroyed by fire about the year J800 ; jbut ,the copy in the Ex ecutive Ufhce at Kaleigh was pre served by that great patriot and statesman, Gen. W. R. Davie, who would be little likely to have among ihs papers "a Spurious ?ddcumentftQf that kind. "And erherhe following extract from the celebrated JPrpclamation of the Royal Governor Mifrtirl Vdated.VOn' board His Majesty's Ship Cruiser, in Cape Fear. River, the 8th of August," 1775i :must mateassurance, double sure: i rfo'AndV 'Wherea9,IiJhayeseen amost infamous publicationl in the Cape solves of a set of people styling them selves a comjjlbeujitir of Mecklenburg, most tratoriously. declaring the entire dissolution of the laws, government and constitution of the country, and setting up a sys- tern ot rule, and regulation, repuer- narit to-the la ws and Subversive of Bj;::ld respectfullyask' the Dllegtonrpourjler, hether -this ar raytoCtesiimb its dddbtsi o'f thk genial rieneka i:tn a ndoc iinientwhicWrth Carolina is, anmayeH bliroud:- f rr 1 -Tf fi".i.i..lji.:..i jii 4r . t n xi ii uuuuiu oojeci, wnn .oir. jei fersorii that thei Journals of the Gen- jerAl Congress: oontainino allusion to thdiace, the) answer is -at hand, rrhfirlnosthiimods- memoir , of Rv. QlfT-HLunter SexnreasW. that ptj. ackwbop bore rtbe rDeclara nO Philadeinh'ayreDO tui' tbaW&on analfestedllieir' approbation of the canauctoi the JVLecklenbUrg citizens, biit "deemed itreniature to lav thjtfnt pfciallyr, l)bfom thBllIIoue' Ixtth wr not gijv en up p no nope oi a reconcin a tibn with the mother country, and was not prepared tor a declaration of final separation. " SbUstamed by such a.mass pf .testi- Smony, there never could have been a doubt of the truth of the Mecklen burg Declaration, had not Mr. Jefifer Ison attempted to give it the go-by in loiy, when the subject was much agitated in the papers of the day. The charge of plagiarism was mpde against him, founded on the identity of lour passages in that paper with tour passages in his own .Nation al Declaration. To disprove the charge, be adopted the summary mode of disputing tho authenticity of the Mecklenburg paper; and not satisfied with this, endeavored to sustain that ground by afoul charge of Toryism against Wm. Hooper one oi the JNorth Carolina delegates in Congress, and oi lukewarmness on the part of another, Mr. Hewes How these charges have been dis proved and left without the shadow of a shade of support, is matter of history whic t jij.net our purpose to enter upon. But a few facts are stated in the April (1838) number of the Southern Literary Messenger, which have an important bearing upon the subject, acquitting Mr. Jefferson of plagiar ism, taking from him the merit ,of originating some of tho finest passa ges ot the .National Declaration, and adding strength, if strength were needed, to the claims of the Meck lenburg Declaration. The four phrases, which are iden tical in tho two Declarations are "Dissolves the political bands which have connected, "absolve from all allegiance to the British crown," "are and of right ought to be,", and "pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor." Now tbe Messenger shows that tho second phrase is in the Virginia resolutions instructing their Dele gates in I ongress "to propose to that body to declare the United Colo nies free . and Independent btates ; and that it occurs also, to gether with tho first and third phrases, in Mr. Lee's resolution, moved in accordance with that in struction. That none of them were used by Mr. Jefferson in hisorigina draft, but were interpolated by the committee to whom Mr. Jefferson submitted it, as follows,-the words thrown in by the committee being in italics : That these United Colonies are and of right ought to be, free and in dependent States : that they are ab solved from all allegiance to the Brit ish Crown, and that all politcal connex, ion . between them and the State off Great Britain is rind of right oftaht to be totally dissolved.' As to the last of the four parallel phrases,' says- the Messenger, " we canno' traee-them to any other document.' .vXnthe. Mecklenburg Declaration the.phrase stood : " To the niainten ahee Of which independence, we sol emnly pledge to each other our mu tual co operation, our lives, bur, for tunes, and our most sacred: honor. In Mr.' 'Jefferson s Declaration rah f 0 " And " for the support of the Declaration with ' a firm ? reliance upon Providence we mutually pledge to each other our lives, jur ibftune8,-and ur saQred) .honor."; Tim-words in brackets (abpye0were introduced by the committee. We have not been able to trace the ori gin of this phrase to any other source than the Mecklenburg paper, but, it may be if we bad the 'State, or other papers, of that remarkable age before us, our researehesmight trace, the Jeffersonfs to some,' , inter mediate channel, or to some com mon fountain. 'So then) the 4th of, July Declaration did not,, like a sec-i ond Minerva from the brin of Jove, spring into noticeffully armed cap a pie,- but required. the i assistance ntf .mprQithanipneVniastefT spitit inu its gradual evolution. We shall see that such was th 3 case also with the attested copy of the Mecklenburg Resolves. ti TTIIE IECXiARATI03r OF IN- 7 y tb Citizens of Mec lcle bnTr' the Tvrentletfc OT Mm, l77ltli ifcompa yS DecnmeBto, Publlsbeel by whe' GoTeriior', Under tbe 'Utbrlt iirectiit or tbo emeeal , J4semb1 j o.r tile State or or lit Carolina. The resolution ; soft the, General jAsBembiy directirigthis pubHcati on, nakes it the duty of the Governor to cause to be published in pamphlet orm the .Keport oi ttie uommittee relative to the Declaration of Inde pendence, and the accompanying documents, in the following order, viz: 1. The Mecklenburg Declara tion, with the names of the Dele gates .composing tjie meeting. 2. The certificates testifying to the circumstances attendW the Decla ration; and 3. The -proceedings of the Cumberland Association. In the discharge of this duty, the Governor has deemed it proper to prefix to the publication the follow ing brief review of the evidence by wnicn the authenticity oi this inter esting portion of the history of North Carolina is controverted and sustained. On the 30th of April, 1819, the publication marked A, made its ap- i.1 T1' 1 n . r , pearauoe in tne xiaieign iteqiszer. it was communicated to the editors of that papey by Doctor Joseph Me KnitL, then and' now1. a citizen of the county of Mecklenburg, and was speedily republished; in most of the newspapers in the Union. A paper containing it ( the Essex Reaisten was, it seems, on the 22nd , June, 1819, enclosed to Mr. Jefferson, by his illustrious compatriot, John Adams, accompanied with the re mark, that ho thought it genuine: and this suggestion of Mr. Adams elicited the iollowing reply, which was at that time published in various newspapers, and has been since given to the world in the 4th volume of Mr. Jefferson's works, page 314: TO JOHN ADAMS. . . uMonticelloy July '1819. "Dear Sir : I am in debt ta'you for your letters of May 21st, 27tb, and June the 22nd. - The first dei livered me by Mr.;Grteenw6od,' fgave me the gratification of his ft'cquai-nt-r ance; and a gratification it always is, tp be made . acquainted ;WU gentlemeniof candprj W.prthnd.iiit formation, as 1 found Mr, . Green-r wood to; be. That on tho subject oi" Mr. barauel Adams Wells,1 shall not be forgotten in time and place, when it can be used t his advantage. "But , what . has, attracted, any peculiar notice,, .is , tn paper irom Mecklenburg county, of North Carolina, published in the Essex Register, which you. were so kind, as tp enclose in your, last, of June (.the 22nd. j And you seem to - think it genuine. I believe it spurious. believe it to be a very unjustifiable quiz, like that of tho volcano, so minutely related to us as having broken out in North Carolina, some half dozen years ago, in that part of the country, and perhaps in that very county ot Mecklenburg, for 1 do not remember its precise locality. If this paper be really taken from the Raleigh Uegister, as quoted, wonder it should have escaped Ritchie, who culls what is good from every paper, as the bee from every flower ; and the National In telligencer, too, which is edited by a North Carolinian ; and that the fire should blaze out all at once in Essex, one thousand miles from where the ' spark is said to have fallen. But it really taken from the Raleigh Register, who is the narrator and is the name subscribed real, or is it as fictitious as the paper, itself? It appeals; too. to an original book which is burnt, to Mr. Alexander, who is dead, to a joint letter from Caswell, Hewes, and Hooper, al dead, to a cony sent to. the dead Caswellj and another sent to Doctor Williamson, " now improbably :, dead, w hose -memory did not recollect, i n .ibe:.bi8toryKe'fi Caroling this giiQp! ?38 county of 'Mecklenburg. Horry, Xoof is : siletft inhis histoTyT pi iMaridh, ' whose the country bdrdeHnnh 'Mecklen burg. 7 RamsaK Marshall; Jones, airafnWrrt ahceiftStAte8all8ilent, W hen Mr Henry's 'resolutionslar short bi DOttf flaming declaration of the same date, of the independence of Meek lenburg county, of North Carolina, absolving it from the British allegi- !ndepnn tbroiiiKi et'erv.-'Daber.:and kindled ance, and abjuring all political con-. nection'iW.itQiXt&atj . nation, although snt to Congress, top, is never heanl of. . It is Bot'knqwn,; veri twelve-; month after when a similar proposi tion is', first .made in that ( , bod j. Armed; ;,with this bold, example, would not you have addressed our lmid brethren" in peals , of- thunder, on their tardy fears ? Would not every advocate of independence have rung . the glories of Mecklenburg county, in North (Carolina, in the ears of the doubting Dickinson and others, whp hung so heayily on us ? Yet the example of independent Mecklenburg cpuntyin North Caro ma,;was never once quoted. The paper speaks, too, of the continued exertions of the,ir delegation (Cas well, Hopper, Hejves,) 'in the cause iberty and mdependenceJ - Is ow, you remember as well as I do, that we had not a groater tory in Con gress than Hooper; that Hewes was very wavering, sometimes farm, sometimes feeble, according as the day wasjclear or cloudy ; that Cas well, mdqeqVwas a good whig, and kept these gentlemen to the notch, while he was present; but that he left us soon, and their line of con duct became then uncertain until Penn came, who fixed Hewes. and the vote of the State. I must not be understood as suggestine: any doubtfulness in the State of North Carolina. No State was more fixed or forward. Nor do I affirm, posi tively, that this paper is a fabrica tion, because the proof of a nega tive can only be presumptive. But I shall believe it such until positive and solemn proof of its autbenticit3T shall be produced. And if the name ef McKnitt be real, and not a part of the fabrication, it needs a vindi cation by . the production of such proof. For the present, I must be an unbeliever in the apocr3rphal gospel. . , , .. "I am glad to learn that Mr. Ticknor has safely returned to his friends ; but should have been much more pleased bad he accepted the Professorship in our University, which we should have offered him in form. Mr. Bowditcb, too, refuses us ; so fascinating is the vinculum of the dulce natale solum. Our wish is to procure natives, where they can be found, like these gentlemen, of the . first order of acquirement in their respective lines; but preferring foreigners of the first order to natives of the second, we shall cer tainly have to go, for several of our Professors, to countries more ad vanced in science than we ae. "I - set out within three or four dajs"for my other home, the dis tance of which, and its cross mails, are great impediments to epistolary communications. I shall remain there abont two months; and there, here, and everywhere, I am and shall always be, affectionately and resnectfully yours, ; "TH: JEFFERSON." The republication of this letter in a work which is intended for, and will go down, to .posterity, recom mended alike by its intrinsic ' excel lence, and the. illustrious name of the author, has imposed upon the Legislature the task of proving that, with regard to this particular fact, Mr. Jefferson was mistaken, and that his opinion was made up from a very superficial and inaccurate ex amination of the publication In the Raleigh Register, the only evidence then before him, and upon which his letter is a commentary. The letter itself was evidently written currente calamo, and for that reason may not be regarded as a fuir subiect for severe criticism. It is not intended to subject it to such a test, nor, is it designed to examine it further than may be necelsary to the ascertainment of truth. Of the ability, the purity, the patriotism ot the author, it is unnecessary to speak. His love of country was not bounded by the confines of Vir ginia ; but it is no discredit to his memory that her institutions, her heroes and her statesmen occupied the first placed in his affeetiqus. She was emphatically "the pother of great men,r ana ;nis own, ni uatve land ;'' ani it is no, master of sur prise that he should be 'unwilling, without the. most ample proof, to transfer, the brightest page of her history to . emblazon, the recoras pi a, sisterL StteJ ' rWirt's Life, of Patrjck -fienry !.iad just been .pub lished.1 and for the' latter was claimed. h the, fixstio; give t mqtiori to t h e, bail pf the Jievolution.,, ,Jar. jenerson nim- ; - . ' .-i ' ' I'-i l'. - TV 1 '-1 i, i selifwas tne autnor oi ine xeciara- tion of Independence, by uongresa, aasotjlipsedy iwihjck m4rq$?eiMiih & comparatively0 ooscure citizen of North Carofina - and, therefore, the evidence which was at once satisfac tory to Mr. Adams, is by him pro il L nounce "to b'-a very unjUlCflable quiz " s -' :i-f. j . the order irrnwh;ich theyl!are' tjiven toMraamsare; Thatahstory; is "like Jthat of tbef.volcand hay Lag' broken4'' putin5 ? that -part1 6f fce country, and perhaps in lthat very county Mecklenburg.' 2 "If this paper be really taken from the Raleigh Register, as quoted, !' won der it should have escaped Ritchie," &c, "and that the fire should blaze iout all at once in Essex, one thoi-' sand miles from vhCre the spark is said to havo fallen." 3. "But if really taken from the Raleigh Regis ter who is the narrator, and is the name subscribed real, or is it ficti tious as tho paper itself f" 4. "It ap peals, too, to an original book, which is-'burnt, to Mr; Alexander, who is dead, to a joint letter from Caswell, Hewes, and Hooper, all dead, to a copy sent to the dead Caswell, and another sent to Doctor Williamson, now probably dead, whose memory did not recollect, in the history he has written of North Carolina, tMs gigantic step of its county of Mecklen burg," &c, &c. Without further remark with re gard to the first point the quiz about the volcano or the second, . whether the "spurious" paper was really published in the Raleigb. Register, it is proper to say, in re ply to the third argnment, that the name subscribed is real, that the in dividual still lives, that he is more over a credible witness, and that it -is to his laudable attention and tx- ertions that the btate is indebted for the preservation of much of the testimony which is now offered to the public. The fourth argument de mands, and will receive more par ticular attention and examination. The paper appeals to a book, which is burnt; to Mr. Alexander, who is dead; to Messrs. Caswell, Hooper, and Hewes, all dead ; to a copy sent to "the dead Caswell," and another, sent to Dr. Williamson. probably dead, are the consecutive facts which Mr. Jefferson states, and on which he relies. Admit the- premises, and the conclusion would' be probable, though not inevitable 'r and a writer of mush less ability, if permitted to assume his facts, might predicate upon them net cn'y a very plausible, but an unanswerable argument. The very fact, however, on which Mr. Jefferson rests, as iha climax of improbabilities, is not only not proved to exist, but, upqn his own showing, does not exist; and justifies the remark in the out set, that his letter was written in haste, upon a very superficial and imperfect view of the subject. The paper does not appeal "to the dead Caswell," but to the then living Davie, a native of the section, of country in which the event occurred, like the former, a distinguished herp of the, Revolution, and, in every; respect, a, proper depository of the . record. The following is the statement; in question: ("The fore going is a true copy of the papers, on the above subjqeteft in mylhapdsy John McKnitt, Alexander, dec'cL I find it mentioned. on file, that the original book was burned A.pril 1800. That a copy of the proceed ings was sent to Hugh Williamson, in New York, then writing a his tory of North Carolina, and tl?at a copy was sent to Gen. W, R. Davie.',') Gen. Davie died shortly after , the date of Mr. Jefferson's letter ; but this identical copy, known by ( the writer of these remarks to be in the band-writing of John McKnitfc Alexander, one of the Secretaries pf the Mecklenburg meeting, is now in the Executive Office of this State. Caswell, Hooper, and Hewes are all dead ; but Capt. Jack, who was ap pointed to carry to them, at. Phila delphia, this Mecklenburg Declara tion, lived long enough to bear testi mony to the truth ; and his state ment is circumstantial, explicit and satisfactory. If it needed con firmation, it would be found tole fully sustained by the interesting communication of the late Re. Francis Cummins, D. D., of Ge.or- gia, to the Hon. .Nathaniel Macop. More satisfactory , evidence, drawn from ;more; respectable' sources, fMr. JpfTfrson, , if alive, couirj jnpt7,arjd would not recpiire. It is not Jhazarjd ing too much to say, that therisijo one event of the Revolutions wch bas beeny pr Van I be ; morejTO0Yp clearly authenticated.. ja(?! si i Jtaisperhaps, needles to ; m,ultU ply.proofe, 0r to dxteiii jthja drtlalfi. CoLi William olk is a fresiden.t4Hof this city, a yenerableTemnani-oi die Revolutionary stock, has passed the commoh-boundary-af human life, and inigreen,pldvIage,-i8i the full possesfiioncfi ihi&i facul tiemojflHi8 cbtopatriols;- CaseH,ttd eHd6r, and Hewes, are dead, but he lives, was present, heard his father pro claim the Declaration to the assent-
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