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the recent ratification of the Constitution with a three-hour parade. A carriage in the shape of an eagle carried the Constitution, which was framed and fixed on a staff crowned with a liberty cap. The words “The People* were written in gold letters on the staff. During the next 25 years, Independence Day was observed as a primarily partisan celebration. The party in power regularly excluded its opponents from the festivities. In 18 00, two Philadelphia schoolmasters, staunch Fedderalists, stalked out of a Fourth of July exercise when a pupil insisted on reading the Declaration of Independence. That seditious document was too closely associated with Thomas Jefferson, a Republican (Democrat). Many citizens were reluctant to take part in Fourth of July ceremonies dominated by what one newspaper called “office seekers and demagogues." It urged the general public to turn out and break the politicians monopoly on July 4. The partisan spirit had subsided by 1826. Tlj£ 50th mpn*versary of the Declaration bf Independence was widely cele brated as a community affair with parades and picnics. A remarkable but sad coincidence on July 4, 1826, further helped knit together the young nation. On that day, both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died.
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