Narrative and Critical History of America, Vol. 6 (of 8) The United States of North America, Part I

CHAPTER III.

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THE SENTIMENT OF INDEPENDENCE, ITS GROWTH AND CONSUMMATION. _George E. Ellis_ 231

CRITICAL ESSAY 252

EDITORIAL NOTES 255

ILLUSTRATIONS: Autographs of the Mecklenburg Committee, 256; Thomas Jefferson, 258; State House, Philadelphia, 259; Original Draft of the Declaration of Independence, 260; Autograph of Thomas Jefferson, 261; Portrait and Autograph of Roger Sherman, 262; Autographs of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, 263-266; Fac-simile of a Contemporary Broadside of the Declaration, 267; John Dickinson, 268; John Hancock (the Scott picture), 270; (a German picture), 271; Charles Thomson, 272; Fac-simile of a Page of Christopher Marshall's Diary, 273.