OF

INDEPENDENCE HALL:

FROM THE

Earliest Period to the Present Time.

EMBRACING

BIOGRAPHIES OF THE IMMORTAL SIGNERS OF THE
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE,

WITH

HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE SACRED RELICS
PRESERVED IN THAT SANCTUARY OF
AMERICAN FREEDOM.

BY D. W. BELISLE.

Patriots! go-to that proud hall repair!

The sacred relics which are treasured there
With tongueless eloquence shall tell

Of those who for their country fell.

PHILADELPHIA:

JAMES CHALLEN & SON,

NEW YORK: SHELDON & CO.-BOSTON: BROWN, TAGGARD & CHASE.
CINCINNATI: RICKEY, MALLORY & CO.
CHICAGO: S. C. GRIGGS & CO.

1859.

M.J.W

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, by

D. W. BELISLE,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

PHILADELPHIA:

STEREOTYPED BY GEORGE CHARLES,
607 Sansom Street.

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NEW YORK