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To: NinoFan

From the book "Voices of 1776":

A copy of the momentous document was promptly sent to Washington [fighting] in new york, and July 9 became a special day. As reported in the Pennsylvania Journal:

This afternoon the Declaration of Independence was read at the head of each brigade of the Continental Army...it was received everywhere with loud huzzas and the utmost demonstrations of joy. And tonight the equestrian statue of George III....has, by the Sons of Freedom, been laid prostrate in the dirt - the just desert of an ungrateful tyrant! The lead wherewith the monument was made is to be run into bullets to assimilate with the brains of our infatuated adversaries...


34 posted on 07/03/2006 11:20:57 PM PDT by geopyg ("I would rather have a clean gov't than one where -quote- 1st Amend. rights are respected." J.McCain)
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To: geopyg

Huzzah! *loud*


43 posted on 07/04/2006 12:18:53 AM PDT by Rte66
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