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Tag Archives: Declaration of Independence
Cry, Our Beloved Country
unHappy Fourth of July! Yesterday the Republican-leaning New-York Times reflected on General McClellan’s retreat from near Richmond and got more fired up for the North to do whatever it took to put down the rebellion. In this editorial a Democrat-leaning … Continue reading
“without even one decenting Colony”
235 years ago today Delaware’s Caesar Rodney wrote to his younger bother, Thomas: Philadelphia, July the 4th, 1776 Sir: I arrived in Congress (tho detained by thunder and rain) time enough to give my voice in the matter of Independence. … Continue reading
