“I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by
succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be
commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God
Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games,
Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent
to the other from this Time forward forever more.
“You will think me transported with Enthusiasm but I am not.
– I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to
maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. – Yet through
all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that
the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will tryumph in
that Days Transaction, even altho We should rue it, which I trust God We shall
not.”
John
Adams to Abigail Adams, July 3, 1776
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