[Illustration: THE LIBERTY BELL]
After all, anyone who can think like Franklin and write like Jefferson
could draw up a Declaration of Independence; but somebody had to fight
like Washington, in order to demonstrate that a democratic country,
resting on principles of liberty, could (with never-to-be-forgotten aid
from the French) achieve its own freedom. The lesson of liberty was
deeply learned in France, where the early French Revolution of 1789
basked in the sunshine of American freedom.
[Illustration: INTERIOR OF INDEPENDENCE HALL
Room in which Independence was born into a definite
Declaration--showing table at which Hancock placed his signature on the
historic Document]
[Illustration: From original painting by T. H. Matteson.