2109. DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, Consideration of.—
Congress
proceeded * * * on July 1st to consider
the Declaration of Independence, which had
been reported and laid on the table the Friday
preceding, and on Monday referred to a
committee of the whole. * * * The debates,
having taken up the greater parts of
the 2d, 3d and 4th days of July, were, on the
evening of the last, closed; the Declaration
was reported by the committee, agreed to
by the House, and signed by every member
present, except Mr. [John] Dickinson. [132]
—
Autiobiography. Washington ed. i, 19.
Ford ed., i, 28.
(1821)
See 2122.
