IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States Of America
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"And....In The Ben Franklin Style Of Speaking He Possessed?"
"Ole Ben Got Up.......And Addressed The Signers...With These Words"
("Gentleman...At This Point Onward")
("We Must All Hang Together")
("For..If We Fail To So?")
("We Shall All Hang Separately").....................
I might suggest that
Rum was popular in the colonies...
And yes.
The process involved 'incredible amounts of alcohol', to quote an historian credible on the subject.
(I'd credit him with the quote, but the name escapes me at the moment and I don't have time to search it. Fireworks start shortly.
"July 4th... Was When The Founding Fathers Told Great Britain..............---- You!"
"But..It Was Really On September 3,1783"
"That We Were Officially ....The United States Of America"
"And To Be Fair.... And Give Respect.... To Where It Should Go?"
"I Would Want To Say..................... "Thank You France"
"For...Without France Entering..... On The American Side?
"I Dont Think That There Would Have Been A"
"United States Of America"..............................
Being resettled in the Bahamas
Not a bad consolation prize.
Especially if one was resettled from, say, New England
It was a good thing to do IMO, and I miss it.
Posting it here in blogtown is kinda like a cyber continuance of the old tradition.
Happily, the Founding Fathers were concise & to the point.
Reading the entire Declaration requires only 'bout 10 minutes
If it'd been written by today's windbag pols, the custom of reading it publicly would've never come about.
Folks would've had to camp out in the public park for a couple days to hear the whole thing...
Things made more sense in 1776.
Legislation needn't be passed in order to figure out what it meant.
Also, as noted above
Here's another remarkable example of elegant eloquence...
It was a great lead in to the Big Day today.
'Widget' is my daughter's nickname, BTW.
It was occasionally modified to 'Witchlet' during her raising.
She's Ginger, BTW....
PS Don't you wish you could write as well as those guys did?