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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1913
Page
3
A cartoon shown at Boston during the months before the Revolution reflected the necessity of uniting against English taxation and illustrated the broad sympathy for colonial troubles across the thirteen colonies.
Mass meetings spread across the colonies as sermons denounced the mother country. Newspapers printed crude cuts of a rattlesnake with slogans Unite or Die or Join or Die. The prints, some by Paul Revere the Boston jeweler, helped popularize the symbol used on colonial troop flags.
Southern celebrations near the nation’s birthday in Virginia's Richmond a century past featured wealthy planters guests and servants. Dr. Frank A. Wade cites a 1700 Richmond letter describing ladies in variegated dress amid flowered balconies, Indian youths, and diamond lace, with Virginia horses racing to a red white and blue Independence Day victor as crowds cheered.
A historical note recalls John Adams and Thomas Jefferson dying on July 4, 1826, the nation’s semicentennial year, while James Monroe also died on July 4, 1831. Adams and Jefferson, political rivals, did not know of each other’s death as news traveled slowly. Monroe, impoverished and reclusive, shared the date but faced different misfortunes.
Major John Andre the British emissary who negotiated with Benedict Arnold for West Point was also an artist. The sketch was made by the young officer in the fall at Tappan near Dobbs Ferry on the morning of his execution. The original is preserved at Yale College.
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