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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ilaine who wrote (20443)	11/19/2001 3:17:21 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 59480

It seems to me that the bell had acquired a reputation, in virtue of its motto and centrality in Philadelphia, that lent itself to use by the abolitionists. Rarely can something like that be simply manufactured, even if the object is magnified in esteem. You are right, all of the bells in Philadelphia were rung for the public reading of the Declaration, but surely the main official bell at the site would be privileged. Also, it was specially rung for the promulgation of the Constitution, which must have re- enforced its "official" character....An interesting side- light: the Daughters of the American Revolution, in the '50s, cast copies of the Liberty Bell for all existing states, and the campus of St. John's was chosen as the site of Maryland's Liberty Bell, because of other Revolutionary War associations........