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; 4# NAVAL HERO’S STORY. @rom the Times-Herald, Chicago, IL) Late in 1861, when President Lincoln {issued a call for volunteers, L. J. Clark, of Warren, Trumbull Co., Ohio, was among the first to respond. He joined the mortar Spot of Admiral Porter just before the “emorable operations on the Mississippi river began. It was at the terrific bom- bardment of the Vicksburg forts, that the hero of this story fell with a shattered arm from a charge of schrapnel. » After painful months in the hospital he recovered sufficiently to be sent to hishome at Warren, Ohio. Another call for troops fired his patriotic zeal and Clark soon en- listed in Company H. of the 7th Ohio Vol- unteers. In the army of the Potomac, he was in many engagements. Being wounded ina skirmish near Richmond, he was sent to the hospital and thence home. . Seon afterward he began the study and — then the practice of veterinary : surgery. 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It was a curious scene in that staid old Quaker town, the last place in the colonies where one would have suspected a spark would be given birth to light freedom’s torch throughout the western hemisphere. It was on the seventh day of June, 1776, that the delegates from the colo- nies sitting in congress in Philadelphia considered the following resolution in- troduced by Virginia's statesman, Richard Henry Lee: “Recolved, That the United States colonies are and ought to be free and independent states and their political connection with Great Britain is and ought to be dissolved.” There had been murmurings and threats afid calm expressions of de- termination. But here was united ac- tion. The people, by their representa- tives duly chosen, formally absolved themselves from allegiance from the mother country and said to the world that they had cast off their swaddling clothes, and were now able to walk alone. To speak with absolute truth, all the delegates did not favor this progressive step. Some opposed it on the ground that it was premature. Nevertheless the resolution over- came opposition and was indorsed as stated, by the majority of one. Thir- teen colonies were represented. Be- cause seven of them voted and stood for independence, the United States is today what she is. Subsequent devel- opments prove that had the action tak- en been delayed, the question of inde- pendence might have slept in peace un- til the herald of the people, no one knows how many years after, sounded the tocsin of revolution. The dele- gates thought it wise to defer the ques- tion of final consideration to July 1, 1776, by which time they believed there might be a more united feeling among the people. Thus it was that on June 11, that famous committee was apppointed to frame the declaration of independence. Note the names, and if you are a stu- dent of the history of the United States, conceive, if you can, of a better quin- tet to have represented the American people: Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Roger Sher- man, Robert R. Livingston. The first was the man whose fame is ticked into our ecrs every time we hear a telegraph instrument, whose genius is placed in broad light whenever we enjoy the il- lumination of electricity. The second rose to be president of the nation he helped to form. The third is the fa- ther of what the world knows as Jeffer- sonian democracy. The fourth, puri- tan, patriot, leader, gave more in moral ferce and determination, in knowledge of the law and its common sense prin- ciples than almost any man who as- sisted at the birth of the nation. The fifth was the man of whom the major- ity of people know comparatively little, and yet there was none who better de- served a place of honor in the public mind. Eminent as a finarcier, a shrewd judge of human nature, his touch on the helm of state was ex- \ JOHN ADAMS. actly what was needed to keep the young craft on her course. Jefferson had spoken but little in eongress and he had no part in the acrimonies which then prevailed. In a plain brick house, corner of Market and Seventh streets, Philadelphia, he drafted the declaration of independ- ence. The work was almost wholly Jefferson’s, only a few verbal altera- tions being suggested by Adams and Franklin. It then was approved by the committee. A few passages were struek out by congress Caesar Rodney, one of Delaware’s delegates, in order to have his vote recorded, rode in the saddle from a point eighty miles from Philadelphia, all night, and reached the floor just in time on July 4 to cast Delaware’s vote in favor of independence. On that day, ever memorable in American annals, the declaration of independence was RICHARD HENRY LEE. aéopted by the unanimous vote cf the thirteen colonies. The enthusiasm of the patriots at hearing the intelligence was unbound- ed. While congress had been discuss- ing the subject, crowds assembled out- sice the hall and in the streets, an-_ DEFECTI xiously awaiting the result. When it was announced at noon the state house bell, on which was inscribed “‘Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto the inhabitants thereof,” clanged deep and melodiously and the throng gave vent to long and loud shouts of exulta- tion. The old bell ringer had been at his post since early morning. He had placed his boy below to announce when the declaration was adopted, so that ROBERT R, LIVINGSTON. not an instant might be lost in trans- ferring the glad tidings by means of the bell to the waiting multitude, As the wearisome hours passed and no sign came to him the aged bell ringer finally exclaimed “They will never do it! They will never do it!” Just then he heard his boy clapping his hands and vociferating at the top of his ju- venile lungs “Ring! Ring!” The old hands swayed the sonorous beil with delirious vigor. Its reverberations was echoed by every steeple in thé city. That was a gala day in Philadelphia, what with rejoicings and bonfires and iuminations. The cannon boomed and messengers rode away hotly in ali quarters to announce the news. Wash- ington then was in New York with the army. By his orders it was read to the soldiers, who acclaimed it enthusixs- tically. The townsfolk on that night tore the statue of George III. from its pedestal in Bowling Green and it was melted into 42,000 bullets for the pa- triotic troops. “Yesterday,” wrote John Adams to ROGER SHERMAN, his wife, ‘the greatest question was decided that was ever debated in Amer- iea; and greater, perhaps, never was or will be decided among men. A reso- lution was passed without one dissent- ing colony ‘that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent.’ The day is passed. The Fourth of July, 1776, will be a memor- able epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliver- ance by solemn acts of devotion to Al- mighty God. It ought to be solemnized with pomp, shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations from one end of the continent to the other, from this time forward forever.” By a strange coincidence John Adams died on July 4, 1826, the fiftieth anniversary of the declaration of in- dependence. His last words were “Jef- ferson still survives.” But at 1 o'clock on the same day Jefferson also passed away. va Youth Icn’t All. Of course you remember the days of your youth, > ‘ You feign would recall them again; But why dwell with sorrow on them now, forsooth? E Forget them. Remember the Maine. —Philadelphia North American. Proposed Alliance With England. 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