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...rumor passed through the hall that Pennsylvania would come over. South Carolina's Edward Rutledge entered smiling???ins colony, too, would vote for independence. New York's men still awaited instructions from home, but they would not dissent. That left only Delaware stalemated?one delegate in favor, one opposed, and one back home on business. Bostonian John Hancock, President of the Congress, rapped his gavel. Secretary Charles Thomson began rereading the resolution aloud prior to a vote...
...conquering herdes, ancient or modern, feel on their return is seldom a matter of record, but the crowd who saw Franklin Roosevelt's face as he reached Washington might give testimony. He was bronzed and he was smiling???that was a foregone conclusion?but he did not look as he had looked on other occasions, ready to turn figurative handsprings out of sheer exuberance. He did not sparkle. For that there were reasons...
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