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A Family Newspaper Devoted to Democracy, Lltoraturo, Agriculture, Mechanics, Education, Amusomonts and Oonoral Intelligence.
VOL. 1.
BELLEVUE, NEBRASKA,' THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1857.
NO. 35.
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BUSINESS CARDS. '
Bowen & Strickland,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW. . Real Estate,
City Lots and Claims bought and sold.
Purchasers will do well to call at our office
and examine our list of City Lots, fee. before
purchasing elsewhere. Office in Cook's new
building, corner of Fifth and Main streets.
L. L. Bowen.
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT
LAW, Bellevue, N. T. 1-tf
S. A. Strickland,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT
LAW, Bellevue, N. T. 1-tf
C. T. Ilolloway,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT
LAW, Bellevue, N. 1. 1-tf
W. H. Cook.
GENERAL LAND AND REAL ESTATE
AGENT, Bellevue City, Nebraska. 1-tf
-' B. P. Rankin,'
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT
LAW, La PI ttte, N. T. 1-tf
' J. Seeley, ...i
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT
LAW, Omaha, N. T. 1-tf
' , V . S. W. Cozzens, , .
ATTORNEY AT LAW and General Land
AGENT, Omaha citv, N. T. Office in
Henry fc Root's uew Brick Block, Farnham
etreet. . -. ao Id-tiia.
-. , . . John W. Pattison.'
NOTARY PUBLIC AND REAL ESTATE
AGENT, FonteneUe, N. T. 1-tf
. , j . ' James S. Izard & Co.
, r AND AGENTS, Omaha, Douglaa County,
Ji Nebraska Territory. 1-tf
Drs. Malcomb & Peck,
OMAHA CITY. Office on Harney street,
opposite the Post Office. Particular at
tention given to Surgery. 1-tf
p.E.Shannon.
REAL ESTATE AGENCY, Cerro Gordo
Pout Office, St. Mary, Mills Co., Iowa. 2
.""""P.E.Shannon,'
COMMISSION & FORWARDING MER
CHANT, St. Mary'a Landing Mills Co.,
Iowa. 1-tf
Peter A. Sarpy,
FORWARDING k. COMMISSION MER
CHANT, Bellevue, N. T., Wholesale
Dealer in Indian Goods, Horses, Mules, and
Cattle. 1-tf
D. J. Sullivan. M. D..
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. Office
Head of Broadway, Council UluOs, Iowa.
nov. 13 !!':
T. . CVMINO. JOHN C. TCRK.
Cuming Si Turk,
.Ittornrys at Law and Real Estalt,1gt)iis.
OMAHA CITY, N. T., '
WILL attend faithfully and promptly to
all business entrusted to them, in the
Territorial or Iowa courts, to the purchase of
' lota and lands, entries and pre-emptions, col
lections, c. !
Office in the second story of Henry & Roots
new building, nearly opposite the Western
Fxchangs Bank, Farnbam street. ,
Papers in the Territory, Council Bluff Bu.
rle and Keokuk Times, pleas '"py and
hsrre. Ntlir.iskiar office.
..ItUSIXESS CARDS.
D. II. Solomon,
ATTORNEY and COUNSELLOR AT
LAW, Glenwood, Mills Co., Iowa, prac
tices in all the Courts of western Iowa and
Nebraska, and the Supreme Court of Iowa.
Land Agency not in tht Programme, no 4-tf
C T. HOLLOWAT.
C. O. KELLER
' ' Hollowav & Keller.
GENERAL LAND AGENTS. Bellevue
city, N. T., will promptly attend to the
collecting and investing money, locating Land
Warrants, buying ami selling city lots, &.C.
Office at the Bellevue House.
Johnson, Casarly & Test,
GENERAL LAND AGENTS, ATTOR
VT NEY3 AND COUNSKLLORS ATLAW,
Council Bluffs, Iowa, will promptly attend to
Land Agencies, Collections, Investing Money,
ideating ana selling L.and warrants, ana all
ojhr business pertaining to their profession,
in Western Iowa and Nebraska. . 1-tf
C. A. Henry & Co.,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DRUG
GISTS, At the Nebraska Drco Store,
Omaha city, INeiiraska, have on hand and are
constantly receiving a large and complete
assortment of Drugs, Chemicals, Patent Medi
cines, Dve Stud's, Liquors, Srgars, Preserved
Fruits, Confectionarie, &c.,&.c. . Physicians
orders filled on a small advance on cost. 1-tf
Titos. Macoi. Alex. Macon. H. O. Jones.
. Macon, Brother & Co.
TAW AND LAND AGENTS, Omaha City
A Nebraska Territory. no B-tf.
Qustav Seeger,
rnOPOGRAPHIC AND CIVIL F.NGI
X NEER, Executes Drawing and Painting
of every style and description. Also, all
business in his line. Office on Gregory street,
St. Mary, Mills county, Iowa. 1-tf
Greene, Weare Sz Benton,
BANKERS AND LAW ACENTS, Council
Bluffs, Potowattamie conuty, Iowa.
Greene tt Weare, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Greene, Weare A. Rice, Fort Dcs Moines, la.
Collections made ; Taxes paid ; and Lands
purchased and sold, in any part of Iowa. 1-tf
v. W, Harvey,
SURVEYOR AND CLAIM AGENT, will
promptly attend to all business of Survey
ing laying out and dividing land, surveying and
platting towns and roads, and will adcompany
persona desirous of making claims, and will
act as agent for the sale ef claims. Office on
Main street, Bellevue, N, T , 20-tf
CEO. SfTDIR.
JOHN H. SHERMAN.
Snyder & Sherman,
A TTORNEYS and COUNSELLORS AT
H. LAW, and NOTARIES PUBLIC, Coun
eil Bluffs, Iowa, will practice their profession
in all the Courts of Iowa and Nebraska.
All collections entrusted to their care, at
tended to promptly. - '
Especial attention given to buying and sell
ing real estate, and making pre-emptions in
Nebraska.
Deeds, Mortages, and other Instruments of
writing drawn with dispatch j acknowledg
ments taken, be, fee.
( Office west aids of 1 Madison street,
just above Broadway. ;
nov 13 1-tf.
WM. K. SMITH. 1. H. SMITH
Smith & Brother,
ATTORNEYS t COUNSELLORS at LAW
and Dealers in Real Estate, Bellevue,
Nebraska Territory, will attend faithfully and
Promptly to buying and selling Real Estate,
ity Lots, Claims, and Land Warrants. Office
at lbs Benton House. 21-6m
" J. II DROWX,
ATTORNEY AMD COIXCELOR AT LAW
. GENERAL LAND A3EXT, .
AND NOTARY PUBLIC,
Platismovih, Cass Co. Jf. T.
ATTENDS to business in any of the Courts
of this Territory. Particular attention paid
to obtaining and locating Land Warrants, col
lection of debts, ane "taxes paid. Letters of
inquiry relative U any parts of the Territory
answered, if accompanied with a fee. '
REFERENCES : '
TTon. Lyman Trumbull, U. S. S. from ma.)
Hon. James Knox, M. C. " "
Hon, O. H. Browning, Quincy, " .
Hon. James W. Grimes, Governor of Iowa.
Hon. H. P. Bennett,. Del to C. from N. T.
. Green, Weare &, Benton, Council Bluffs, I.
Nuckolls Jc. Co., Clenwood, Iowa.
G. P. Theobald & CoJ
COMMISSION fc FORWARDING
Ho. 20 fint Street, tr Mtairs,
ST. LOUIS, MO.
(jy Particular attention paid to filling of !
oraers ana 10 saie or rrnauce. no in-iy.
FOMEXELLE BANK OF BCLLEVIE.
Iltlleriie, Nebraska.
18 prepared to transact the general Ixisiness
f Banking, will receive dosits, Discount
short paper, buy Bills of Exchange, on all
,.f II.. r..,.,.lF. ai,J a.ll ni. k In.,..
I'll is V I." i,,, , i , , i , .
Chicago and New York make collectioas in I
the vicinity' and remit for the same at Curreiit
tali. i.f Etiiiaiipe.
(jy Interest allownl on special Deposits.
JOHN WKAKE, President.'
Thos. II. Bknton, V. Pres.
Joti J. Town, t'aliier. 1-tf
Banking Hours From 9 to 12, A. M., and
1 tO 3, P. M. .,:!.!
CMAS. CHRISTOPHER,
MACHINISTS COFFER S?.ITH,
In all its Brioches.
nzT.i.rwr, and omatta.
P. A. SA11PY,
FORWARDING & COMMISSION
MERCHANT,
Still continues the above bnslness at
ST. MARYS, IOWA, & BELLEVUE,
N. T.
Merchants and Emigrants will find their
goods promptly and carefully attemled to.
P. S. I have the only W AREHOUSE for
storage at the above mimed landings.
St. Murys, Feb. 20lb, 1M7. 21-tM
Tootle & Greene,
WHOLESALE A. RETAIL DEALERS,
Glenwood. Iowa. We beir leave to
call the attention of the Good People of Mills,
Pottawattamie, Montgomery and Cass coun
ties, Iowa j also, Douglas and Cass counties,
Nebraska, to our laree and late supply of every
kind of MERCHANDISE, usually kept in
Western Iowa. Our stock of Groceries is
laree and complete, havinc been bought and
shipped a little lower than our nclghoors.
Our stock of Hardware, Queensware, Wood-
enware, Hoots and Shoes, Hats and Caps and
Ready-Made Clothing, have all been purchased
in the Eastern cities, at the lowest cash prices.
Give us a call before you purchase, and If
we do not sell you cheap goods, we will make
our neighbors do so.
fT" Remember the cheapest house intowi
TOOTLE & GREENE.
Glenwood, Iowa, Oct. 23, 1858. 1-tf
. PALMER & AVERILL,
BELLEVUE STORE,
Corner of Jefferson and 27th atreet,
Opposite the FonteneUe Bank,
BELLEVUE, NEBRASKA,
WOULD RESPECTFULLY call the at
tuition of the citizens of Bellevue, Sar
py county, and the surrounding country, to
their new and selected stock of .
DRY GOODS, . -
FANCY GOOrS,
GROCERIES & HARDWARE,
Which they offer at Wholesale and Retail at
prices 30 per cent, lower than ever before of
fered in this city. We can and will sell
Goods as low if not lower than they can be
bought in Omaha or Bluff City, Please call
and examine for yourselves.
PALMER & AVERILL.
Bellevue, May 23, 18D7.
FIRST ARRIVAL
OF THE
PER STEAMER ST. MARY'S.
THE undersigned takes pleasure in announ
cing to the citizens of Bellevit. and Sarpy
County in general, that they have received
per Steamer St. Mary, a large end splendid
stock of Groceries consisting in part of
Tea, 1 "- '
Coffee, j (
Sugar, "
Molasses,
Fish, i.f--'
, Salt,
T 1 Cheese. -.'' I
Crackers,
Soap,
Oysters, . Liquors,
Figs, bpices.
Rasins. - f Sardines, . ,
Candy,1- - : . ; .
U.ui.'S,
Oils,
ralnts,
Brushes,
Glass,
. Stone Ware, Ix. te.
THEY would also call particular attention
to their superior stock of preserved fruits
consisting of goosberries, Rhubarb, Quinces,
Peaches, Apples, Currants and mixed fruits.
Also their stock of fresh CAN OYSTERS
and SARDINES which they can warrant of
superior quality.
They would also Inform Sportsmen that
they havealarcatipp!T of POWDER, SHOT,
LEAD and CAPS, and that they will find
their store a superior place to provide the ne
cessaries of a hunting exeura'nr., all of which
they will selchep forCAKH,
A Ho a large and oplemlid assortment of
French and America? Perfumery, consisting
in part of ,
Tomsdes, :
, , Cologne, . 1
Soaps etc.
WATTLES & PIKE.
Bellevue, April 6th, 1857. 23-tf.
Ho! For Fresh Water.
THE undernicned respectfully informs the
inhabitants of Bellevue and the anrrounding
country, that he is prepared to di? and finish,
WELLS AND CISTERNS,
At the shortest notice, and on the most rea
sonable tM-ms. D.A.LOGAN.
Hellevne, OcU 23, 15fi.l-tf
A CLRKE & BRO
FORWARD1KG aao COMMISSION
MERCHANTS.:
ST EM BO AT AND COLLECTING
,,, , AOEXTS,
OELLEVUE, NEBRASKA.
Dealers in P;ne Lumber, Doon, Saih,
Flour, Heal, Sacon, &e., &c.
TiT Direct Goods oar Clarke & Bro.
1-lf
-JOHN ANDERSON'S Best Chewing and
l Nnvkire; Tohsirco, at
-f F VHWArEB. WHITE & SAMEPS.
Tootle & Jackson,
1 FORWARDING t COMMISSION MER
. CHANTS, Council Bluffs city, Iowa.
Having a Large and Commodious Warehoiiss
on the Levee at the Council Bluffs landing,
are now prepared to receive and ators, all
kinds of rueichandise and produce, will receive
and pay charges on all kinds of frelgths so
that Steam Boats will not be detained as they
have been heretofore, in getting some one to
receive freight, when the consignees are absent.
IUrtscNcKs: Ltvermoore fc Cooley, S. C.
Da mi, A- Co. and Humphrey. Putt fc Tory, St.
Louis, Mo. i Tootle k. Fairlelch, St. Joseph,
Mo. i J. S. Cheneworth k Co., Cincinnati Ohio
W. F. Coulbouch, Burlington, Iowa. a 1-tf
ROBINSON IIOTJSE.
fTIHE undersigned having recently taken
X and refitted the ahove well-known and
popular Public House, he trusts by the Strict
studious attention to the wants of his guests,
to merit a liberal share of public favor, confi
dence and patronage. His table will be
spread with the best the market affords, atid
no pains will be spared to make his guests
agreeably at horns and comfortable.
G. A. ROBINSON.
Council Bluffs, Iowa. nov 13-tf.
POETRY.
The Old Philosopher's Advice to
a Young One,
Wlio va afraid to speak his mind on, a
great question.
ST CIIAat.ES MACKAT.
Shame upon thee, craven spirit I
Is it manly, just, or brave,
If a truth has shown within thee,
To conceal the light it gave?
Captive of tha world's opinion
Free to speakhut yet alave ?
All conviction should be valiant
Tell thy truth it truth It bs
Never seek to stem Us current
Thoughts, like rivers, find tha act
It will fit the widening circle
Of Eternal Verity.
Speak thy thought If thou believ'it it,
Let it jostle whom it may,
Even though tha foolish acorn It, , '
Or the obstinate gainsay j '
Every aeed that grows to-morrow,
Lies beneath a clod to-day.
If our aires, the noble-hearted
Pione-rs of things to come,
Had, like thee, been weak and timid,
Traitors to themselves, and dumb '
Where would be our present knowledge,
Where tha hoped Millennium ?
Where would be triumphant Science,
Searching with her fearless eyes,
Through the Infinite creation
In the aoul that underlies
Soul of Beauty, aoul of Greatness,
, Wisdom of the earth and aklea?
Where would ba all great Inventiona,
Each from by-gona fancies born,
Issued first in doubt and darkneas,
Launched 'mid apathy or acorn?
How could noontime ever light us,
But for dawning of the morn?
Where would be our free opinion,
Where the right to speak at all,
If our sires, like thee, mistrustful,
Had been deaf to duty's call,
And concealed tha thoughts within them
Lying down for fear to fall ?
Should an honest thought, unspoken,
Lead thee unto chains or death
What is life, compared with Virtue?
Shalt thou not survive thy breath ?
Hark I the future ag invites thee I
Listen, trembler, what it aaith I
It demands thy thought in Juatice,
Debt, not tribute of tha free )
Have not ages, long departed,
Groaned, and toiled, and bled for thee?
If the past have lent thee wiadom,
Pay it to Futurity.
The Iron Harp.
BT A. BOOANNE.
Let him who will rehearse the song
Of gentle love and bright romance !
Let him who will with tippling tongus,
Lead gleaming thoughts to Fancy's dance
Bu let mb strike mine Iron Harp,
As Northern Harps were struck of old 1
And let its music, clear and sharp,
Arouse the free and bold 1
My hands that Iron Harp shall eweep,
Till from each stroke new strains recoil j
And forth the sounding echoes leap,
To join the arousing Song of Toil
Till men of mind their thoughts outspeak,
And thoughts awake in kindred mind,
And stirring words shall nervs tha weak,
And fetters ceass to bind I
And crashing soon o'er soul and sense,
That glorious harp whose iron strings
Are Lasos's mighty instruments,
Shall shake the thrones of mortal kings,
And ring of axe, and anvil note,
And rush of Plough through yielding soil,
And laboring angines's vocal throat,
Shall swell the Sono e-r Tou !
MISCELLANEOUS.
Americans at Rome.
"Burleigh," tho Boston Journal's Now
York correspondent, rolates the following
hiciJent: , , , ,
In tho great hall of iho Propaganda at
Home may be seen in one corner two
flngs of tho United States. They stand
alono. It excites great surprise that our
standard should be in this place of Papal
power and no others and on inquiry the
American will be told that in the lata re
bullion, when tho Italians aro?e against
the government, the leuder of the land
planted his cannon against tho hall of the
Propaganda, and resolved to luvol that
ancient btructure to tho grouud. The
Pupal authorities railed on Mr. Cass and
urged to suvo the building by he power
of the American flng. They tola him
that neither the flag of England, France,
nor Austria would be repuciud ', but that
the American flag would. After much
herniation Air. Cass removed his consu
late from the position he then occupied to
Propaganda gave pub'ic notice of the
removal and raised the flag of our Un
ion over its roof. The chief of the insur
gents remonstrated swore ho would fire
on the flag made his cannon ready, and
moved away. The Propaganda was ear
edand the flags have thia honor for tho
good they did in the time of peril.
On this acccunt the Americans have
distinguished favors conferred on them
through Mr. Cass .among others tho
unusual mark of having religions worship
in the hoi'so of the Consul. The Kngliah
have no such favors. They can only oc
cupy a amall chapel outside of the walls
of Koine, and John Bull is quite iore and
mad on the subject. He does not relish
tho idea of worshipping God outside the
walls, while the Americans pay their de
votions in the palace. The opening of his
bouse to Protestant worship, without ' sec
tarianism, has made Mr. Cass tiuite pop
ular. The service is Catholic i t the best
sense." To it all sects rfpajr. ' In the
morning the form of worship is on the
Presbyterian or Congregational model.
In the afternoon it is Kpiscopal. And
this ii the only place in Rome where Prot
estant worship is held in the English lan
guage. And this open to all. While Mr.
Cass is our Consul, this free public wor
ship will ' remain undisturbed. But it
makes trouble. The other nations de
mand of Home what is conceded to Amer
icans. To grant this demand is to proclaim
toleration to all sects iu the capital of the
Romish church and under the hand of the
Pope. And now one of two things must
be done: either the American Chapel
must be closed, or all others must be op
ened. It cannot be closed while Mr. Cass
remains. His eminent services forbid
this as well as the approbation of the Pope.
It can be done by the removal of Mr.Cass
and the appointment of a Roman Catholic
in bis placr That is now flemnnaea, ana
the friends of civil and religious liberty
are bestiriug thenielves to have Mr. Cass
retained. Mr. McMasters, the editor f
the Freeman's Journal, is spoken of as
likely to succeed Mr. Cass.
She Wouldn't Marry a Mechanic.
A young man commenced visiting a
voune woman, and appeared to be well
pleased. One evening he called when it'
wa quite late, which led the young girl
to inquire where it was he had been.
" I had to work to-night.M
What ! D you work for a living V
she nquired in astonishment.
"Certainly," replied the young' man,
'I'm a mechanic
and she turned up hr pretty nose.
That was the last time the young me
chanic visited the young woman. lie is
now a wealthy man, and he has one of
the best women in the country Jar a wife.
The lady who disliked the name of me
chanic is now the wife of a miserable fool
a regular vagrant about grogshops;
and she, soft, verdant, silly, miserable
girl is obliged to take in ashing in order
to support hersf If and children.
You dislike the name of mechanic, eh!
You, whose brothers are but well dressed
loafers ? We pity any girl who has so
little brains, who is so verdent, so soft, as
to think less of a young man for being a
mechanic one of God's noblemen the
most dignified and hpnarabla personage
of heaven's creatures. Beware younjj la
dy how you treat young men who work
for a living, for you may one day be a me
nial to one of them yourself.
Far brtter discharge the well fed pau
per with all his rings, jewelry, braxvnness
and pomposity, ami taVe to your affection
the (allous handed, intelligent and indus
trious mechanic.
Thousands have bitterly regretted their
f illy, who have turned their backs to hoa
esty. A few years have taught thera a
severe le$on
The lied nlvcr of Life.
Physically, the human organism is an
aggregation of solids and liquids which
are continually changing into each other,
tho solid melting into the liquid, the liquid
congealing into the solid whilst both
stand so related to the air, which is the
breath of life, that they are continually
vaporising into gases, and gasos are con
tinually liquefying and soldifying into them.
When Hamlet exclaimed
" Oh I that this too.too solid flesh would melt,
Thaw, and resolva Its e IX Into a dew,"
he was pi ef erring a request, which was
granted before it was preferred, and
which is every moment receiving fulfill
ment in each of us. Blood is liquefied
muscle, sinew, nerve, brain, and bone.
Bone, brain, nerve, sinew, and muscle,
are soldifiud blood ; and at every moment
flesh is becoming blood, and blood flash.
The current in our veins is at one a riv
er of the water of Life, feeding and sus
taining all that grows along its shores,
and a river of the water of Lethe, quench
ing in oblivion everything that it touchss.
Like the Nilo, or the other great rivers of
the world, it is at the same lime wearing
down hills and building up continents; but
with this difference, that whereas tht
Nile is only destructive among the moun
tains of Abyssinia, and only constructive
in the plains of Egypt, the blood at every
point in its course is simultaneously add
ing and abstracting. Those wondrous
crimson barques, or blood-cells, which
navigate the arteries, are keen traders,
and follow the rue of the African rivers,
where sales are effected only by barter;
but they add to this rule one peculiar to
themselves, which neither civilised nor
savage man cares to follow, namely, that
they give away new goods in exchange
for old. Here the trafiukers on the red
river deposit fresh brain particles, to re-
Clace those which the immaterial spirit
as sacrificed to the expression of ita
thought; for Jeremy Taylor taught a
f treat physical truth, when he declared
ong ago, that " whilst we think ft thought
we die." The eloquent preacher saw
death near as at every moment, and near
er at each than at' the moment before
but death is in us at every moment, and
it is not merely whilst, but btcaust we
think a thought, we dio. Alas! that we
cannot be content with such innocent self
slaughter,' which the river of life in our
veins forgives into resurrection in every
case, as fast as it ripples along. It can
nut help us, if we overthink ourselves,
and die before our time, but during life
its mariners.deal in all vital wares. As
fast as the b'acksmith wastes his muscles
by each blow, they barter, against the
spent cordage of his arm, new flesh-par
tides to make it strong as before ; they
restcre it to its integrity the exhausted
auditory nerve of the musician, give the
painter a new retina, and the singer a
new tongue. Wherever, in a word, the
million lamps of life, which keep up its
flame at every point of the body, have
burned to the socket, they are replaced
by freshly trimmed ones ; nor is it here
as with the barter of Aladdin's lamp.
The new lamp is, in this case, the magic
one; the Genie has departed from tho
old. Edinburgh Essays.
"ffhere They Learn It.
" I don't see where my children learn
such tilings," is one of the most common
phrases iu a mother's vocabulary. A lit
tle incident which we happened to witness
may, pherhaps, help to solve the enigma.
We smiled a little at the time, but have
thought a good deal of it since, and we
truat not without profit.
" Bub," screamed out a bright eyed
girl, somewhat under six years of age, to
a youngster who was sitting on the curb
stone, making hasty-pudding of the mud in
the guuer, "Bub.you good for nothing little
scamp, you come right into the bouse this
minute, or I'll beat you till the skin comes
off."
" Why, Angelina, Angelina dear, what
do you mean I Where do you learn such
talk I" exclaimed the mother, in a won
dering tone, as she stood on the steps,
bowing to a friend.
Angelina looked up innocently and an
swered :
Why, mother, you ace we are "play
ing, and he's my little boy, and I'm scold
ing him, just as you did me this monicg,
that's air
John Hancock.
It is quite a singular fact that John
Hancock w as not originally elected as del
egate to the Contiuential Congress at
Philadelphia. Tho illness of James
Bowdoin's wife compelled Bowdoin to re
main at home, and Hancock was elected
as his substitute. To this trifling circum
stance Hancock is indebted for the proud
distinction he has gained of having his
name enruiird where aM the world way
read it foremost on the roll of Independ
ence, i
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