The signers wrote in the Declaration, “We mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.” It was a simple statement of fact.
The day they signed that document each became a traitor and was sentenced to death for treason by the legal government that controlled their lands and their homes.
They stood at a point of no return.
“Indeed we must all hang together,” said Ben Franklin, “Otherwise we shall most assuredly hang separately.”
When Rhode Island’s Stephen Hopkins signed the document he remarked, “My hand trembles but my heart does not.”
http://www.22frets.com/2013/07/the-fate-of-the-56-signers-of-the-declaration-of-independence-special-4th-of-july-entry/
Read of the signers fate within this document.
The day they signed that document each became a traitor and was sentenced to death for treason by the legal government that controlled their lands and their homes.
They stood at a point of no return.
“Indeed we must all hang together,” said Ben Franklin, “Otherwise we shall most assuredly hang separately.”
When Rhode Island’s Stephen Hopkins signed the document he remarked, “My hand trembles but my heart does not.”
http://www.22frets.com/2013/07/the-fate-of-the-56-signers-of-the-declaration-of-independence-special-4th-of-july-entry/
Read of the signers fate within this document.