Southwest High School - Roundup Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE BY LOIS ANN KLOEPPER When 1n the course of human exents It becomes HSCQSSHIQ for one people That IS my head Oh' I mean lt qulte llterally I am the Declaratlon of Independence It IS vexy mterestlng be1ng a famous docu ment ln the hlstoxy of an lmportant countly People come to look at me and I looklng at them can see my great country 1n a glance I have watched the yea1s pass gl eat tlmes fol our country For yeals many yea1s before I was eve1 thought of the Brltlsh were passlng laws and acts that 1nfu11ated the colon1sts The Molasses Act of 1733 wh1ch the colon1sts bravely lgnored and the Br1t1sh wxsely d1d not try to enfol ce The Stamp Act of 1765 probably YVIIQII the posslble excep tlon of the Intolelable Acts the most 1rr1tat1ng of all The Stamp Act forced the colon1sts to pay a duty on all papers deeds contracts b1lls w1lls through the stamps that were to be aflixed to them The colomsts would not stand fo1 thlg They held a Congl ess and sent petltlons to the Klng and Parllament The act was nnally repealed only to be follow ed by others equally bad The Br1t1sh sent tloops to enfol ce then acts although Bema mln Frankhn had wa1 ned that such a move would make the colon1sts fight The COIOHIQIS xefused to qua1te1 the troops and the people taunted them w 1th coarse cr1es One day 1n Boston when the soldlers had had all they could stand they fired on a C1 owd of thelr to1mento1s k1ll1ng elght Also ln Boston was held that famous masquelade the Boston Tea Party The B1ltlSI'1 had put a th1 ee pence duty on tea The colon1sts 1eso1t1ng to the more expenslve but untaxed smuggled tea refused to buy the product so taxed They very effectwely prex ented the tea from be1ng landed D1s gulsed as Indlans a band of men boarded the xessels w hlch carrled It and pltched lt overboard All th1s tlme I had been glOVI1I'lg from a mele germ 1nto a bu1n1ng ldea Wlth the battles of Lexlngton Concord and Bunker Hlll I sprang forth Independence It was on the IIDS of everyone George Washlngton took charge of the colonlal army and the Contmental Congress declared war on the royal brute George III 1n 1775 Stlll the members of Congress hesltated to make the formal break to turn thelr backs forex er on a place IH the Br1t1sh Emplre One year later June 7 1776 Rlchald Henry Lee of Vlrglnla entered the followlng resolutlon These colonles are and of llght ought to be free Measures should be taken for the 1mmed1ate form lng of forelgn alllances A plan for confederatlon should be prepared and submltted for the colonles approxal There was much sp1r1ted dlscus slon on these measures Many men d1d not really want to adopt such a drastxc resolutlon but the bolder sp1r1ts prexalled and a commlttee was formed to wrlte a paper Justlfylng the action of Congress Thomas Jeffer son was asked to prepare the document On July 2 Congress adopted Lee s resolutlon two days later July 4 the body agaln met thxs tlme to slgn the paper wrltten by Jefferson Whlch ended wlth Lee s motlon and the pledge of Congress to defend the new natlon So ended the rldlculous farce of professlng loyalty to a klng whose troops we were flghtlng Thus was gn en to the wolld a document whose Importance IS unexcelled lf I do say so myself I uenlu fnur K6 ' , ' ' 7 , n ls. V ,, . . . . a ,L ' I . , . . v . , , I . .I xni 1 n A I - 11 11 V 1 1 ' .1 V I, I, I , I . 7 . Q. . D i Y I I . II I . . 1 . V . . . . . , I I I r 9 1 -L ' , . . . . . 7 7 '7 7 7 I . I I 1 11 ' Q 1 1 I I 1 1 I I. II I I J ll V 1 - y . I , I, 4 . . 1 4 ' 4 '41 1 ' . I I I I, . ' D I I v -1 1 .1 1 I I I . I 1 1 ra 1 1 4 I I I I, v. . . i . w f 7 I I. , , I 1 Y . H 1 . . . . 7 7 ' 7 7 7 ' 1. ' 4 - I 4 1' ' 7 7 ' 7 7 . Y . .S- . . v u 7 . . . I I, II I . . . Y. I . Q . . I I . . ' . . I , , , I . T . I 1 ll 77 ' ' 9 v - 1 7 . . . . . Q ' 7 7 7 . . . . . l H . Q 1 L x ' . . , 7 ,, v . . . - I . w. . I . . . . . Y . . 7 7 7 I . , I 7 7 1 7 V . . Y. , . I I V . . . ' V Y - Y I I . I 'y v - v ' ' I . ,.Y nrt

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