The New York genealogical and biographical record . e time the Declaration of Independence was signed, the thirteencolonies, which formed all there was of the then United States, occu-pied a region about 900 miles long and ico miles wide, with less than2,000,00c people. What these men by their devotion made possibleis a country miles wide from north to south, reaching from theAtlantic to the Pacific, with over 60,000,000 people, in every part ofwhich life, liberty, and property are perfectly secure, while good men andhonest citizens are sure of having their reputations protected during t
The New York genealogical and biographical record . e time the Declaration of Independence was signed, the thirteencolonies, which formed all there was of the then United States, occu-pied a region about 900 miles long and ico miles wide, with less than2,000,00c people. What these men by their devotion made possibleis a country miles wide from north to south, reaching from theAtlantic to the Pacific, with over 60,000,000 people, in every part ofwhich life, liberty, and property are perfectly secure, while good men andhonest citizens are sure of having their reputations protected during theirlives and their memories cherished after their deaths. This is the growthwhich the sacrifices made during those days have developed, and whichthe most heroic of those Revolutionary soldiers would have scarcelydared to hope could have been realized to the extent that it has American flag is the only American thing that can bear stripes. Itgrew out uf the determination to be free, but it took a long, bitter civil * See Appendix A. / / m. h K .• V. ^-f^ 5 , •• ? fc. ,- S* ra * jfc. : ^ \ .m ;^i^i,.i.:^v.:rJ.^:.: ?:?? 1S92.] Major Azariah Egleston 0/ the Revolutionary Army. \ \ - war, though not so long by half as that of the Revolution, to make it floatover a people who would not tolerate stripes anywhere on anyone. Those were stirring days, altogether extraordinary times, and the menwho lived then were full of ideas that to that generation on this continentwere not the ideas of most o\ those who lived in the Old World at thattime. The idea of representation in government, and of no taxationwithout representation, was what they thoroughly believed in. Theysent their representatives to act in the three provincial congresses withcarefully prepared instructions, and every representative in every one ofthese congresses knew perfectly well that he would be heartily supportedat home. The men of the Revolution are all gone. The of the Revolu-tion are di
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