Excerpt from The Great Republic

In Baltimore independence was proclaimed amid the roar of artillery, while the effigy of tho king became the sport of the populace, and was afterwards burned in the public square. In Boston the rejoicings of tho people surpassed those in any other section of tho country. Independence was there proclaimed from the balcony of tho State-House, in the presence of all tho authorities and of a groat concourse of people. Salutes were fired, tho troops paraded, the bells were rung, and the people went wild with joy, in their excitement tearing to pieces and burning all the ensigns of royalty. A banquet was prepared for the authorities and the principal inhabitants, at which toasts were drunk to tho destruction of tyrants, the propagation of liberty, and a series of similar sentiments. In Virginia great enthusiasm also prevailed, and the convention passed a number of acts designed to remove every vestige of royalty from the public proceedings of the commonwealth.

Tho passage of this declaration entailed new duties upon tho people, which would exhaust their powers, legislative and military, for years to come. A new government had to be formed, on a plan which had never before been applied to a country of such extent, and which involved innumerable difficulties. And the independence declared by the legislature had to be sustained by tho army against all tho power of the richest and most energetic nation of the Europe of that day. Some consideration of the steps taken towards tho accomplishment of these purposes is important as preliminary to the story of tho subsequent events of the war.

The resolution of independence had abolished one phase of political existence; it had not created a new phase. A nation was yet to be made out of the discordant elements of the separator colonies.

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