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keep the name of John Dunlap— the boy who came from County Tyrone— forever green.
The debates in the Congress sitting in Philadelphia were over. Independence had been resolved. A statement proclaiming the de- • cision had been adopted that day, 175 years ago Wednesday.
The next step was to have the news printed, and Congress sitting as a committee of the whole:
“Ordered That the declaration be authenticated & printed. That the committee appointed to prepare the declaration superintend & correct the press. That copies of the declaration be sent to the several assemblies, conventions and committees or councils of safety and to the several com-, manding officers of the continental troops that it be proclaimed in each of the united states and at the head of the army.”
The committee included Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston.
John Hancock authenticated the copy with his signature. Charles Thomson attested it, but who, if any, among the Committee of Five took the authenticated copy to Dunlap’s print shop? It is not known.
One would like to accept the> picture offered by Julian Boyd, editor of “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson”:
“It may be that Jefferson aa chairman of the Committee took the authenticated copy to John Dunlap—perhaps, it is pleasant to suppose, accompanied by (Franklin) the greatest of all colonial printers—and watched over its composition and proofs during the night of July 4. But even Franklin could not have given more appropriate setting to the calm tnajesty of Jefferson’s cadences
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