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was “solemnly proclaimed” on the afternoon of June 25 “at the Capitol, the Courthouse, and the Palace, amidst the acclamations of ithe people, accompanied by firing of cannon & musketry, the several regiments of continental troops having been paraded on that solemnity,”
In Princeton,_the university’s Nassau Hall “was grandly illluminated, and Independency proclaimed under a triple volley of musketry.”
Sometimes it was proclaimed not before a public building bub before a tavern—which may have accounted for the' 13 toasts that were imbibed at one ceremony, a toast to each of the 13 States.
It was exciting news, though not always greeted as enthusiastically as men later thought they remembered. In some communities there were still Tories of influence.
Exciting though it was, the news spread slowly. That was a day before telegraph and telephone. Papers first had to get the news and most of them waited until their regular publication days to report it.
Even in Philadelphia, it was not until July 6 that the tri-weekly Pennsylvania Evening Post reported the news. It was July 8 when Dunlap’s Pennsylvania Jacket, a weekly, carried the story. Dunlap thus was scooped on a story in which he had had a hand.
Dunlap’s Maryland .Gazette in Baltimore carried the news on July 3; two days later it was reported in the "^Maryland Gazette in Annapolis. It was July 19 when the first report, an extract, appeared in the Virgnia Gazette at Williamsburg.
John Dunlap was a staunch patriot. Four years after he printed the Declaration of Independence, he was one of 27 members of the
(See PRINTER, page 3.)
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