# The promise of the bell

Author: Repplier, Agnes, 1855-1950; Adams, John Wolcott, 1874-1925 [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: History - American

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75219

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+promise+of+the+bell+Repplier&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

When from the wooden steeple of the Philadelphia State House (the Nation’s birthplace, and the most sacred spot on American soil) the Liberty Bell rang out its message of freedom “throughout the land,” it did more than proclaim the Declaration of Independence, and it did more than summon the colonists to defend that independence with their lives. It promised them in a beautiful and borrowed phrase the reward of their valour. It affirmed their inalienable right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”; thus linking with bare existence two things which give it worth, thus striving to ennoble and embellish the length of years which lie between man’s cradle and his grave.

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-promise-of-the-bell-75219/chapters/1/index.md)