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INDEPENDENCE HALL
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Independence
Series No. 2.
Independence
Square
Showing rear
view of Inde-
pendence Hall.
In this park the
Declaration of
Independence
was first pub-
licly read by
Colonel John
Nixon, on
July 8th, 1776.
Since that time
maintained by
the city of Phila-
delphia as a
public garden.
Back:
Contrary to popular tradition, the
actual adoption of the Declaration of
Independence was not made known
on July 4. Although it was generally
known in Philadelphia that congress,
which was deliberating behind closed
doors, had voted favorably on the
resolution for independence, the doc-
ument was not published until July
6, and it was on the 8th that John
Nixon read the document to a great
crowd of patriots assembled in the
state house yard.
No sooner was the ceremony over
than the people tore the king's coat
of arms from over the doorway of the
state house and burned it. As his-
tory records, congress had ordered the
Declaration of Indepnedence read
publicly in other cities, and in every
case the wildest demonstration fol-
lowed.
In New York the statue of King
George was torn down and given to
the authorities to be melted into bul-
lets. Wherever the precious document
was read there were processions, the
firing of salutes, ringing of bells and
the destruction of some effigy or mon-
ument to emphasize the people's
hatred of England.
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