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Supplemental Declaration. The Washington National Intelligencer lately contained the following article in relation to Charles Carroll, of Carroll ton, the only survivor in 1826 of the men who signed the Declaration of American Independence: “In the year 1820, after all save one of the band of patriots whose signatures are borne on the Declaration of Indepen dence had descended to the tomb, and the venerable Carroll alone remained among the living, the government of the city of New York deputed a committee to wait on the illustrious survivor and obtain from him, for deposit in the public hall of the city, a copy of the Declaration of 1776, graced and authenticated anew with his sign manual. The aged patriot yielded to the request, and affixed, with his own hand, to a copy of that instru ment, the grateful, solemn, and pious supplemental Declaration which follows: ‘““* Grateful to Almighty God for the blessings which, through Jesus Christ our Lord, he has conferred on my be loved country in her emancipation, and on myself in permitting me, under cir cumstances of mercy, to live to the age of eighty-one years, and to survive the fiftieth year of American Independence, and certify by my present signature my approbation of the Declaration of Inde pendence adopted by Congress on the 4th of July, 1776, which I originally sub scribed on the second day of August of the same year, and of which I am now the last surviving signer—I do hereby recommend to the present and future generations the principles of that impor tant document as the best earthly inher itance their ancestors could bequeath to them, and pray that the civil and rre ligious liberties that have been secured to my country may be perpetuated to re motest posterity and extended to the whole family of man. © CHARLES CARROLL, OF CARROLLTON, “«August 2, 1826.’” BANTER is a marvelous force. It kills sanctity, unveils sophistry, traves ties wisdom, cuts through the finest shield, and turns the noblest impulses into hopeless ridicule, VENEZUELA exhibits forty varieties of fruit preserved in their natural state in alcohol ; also tree sap possessing the color, taste, and, it is said, all the nutritive properties of cow milk.
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Corydon Democrat
Corydon, Indiana, US
Mon, Jul 17, 1876
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