“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
triumph in that Days Transaction, even altho We should rue it, which I trust in
God We shall not.”
-John Adams, as cut-and-pasted from here
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