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Excerpt from Annapolis, Ye Antient Capital of Maryland
R. President, these resolutions ought to pass, and it is high time.
These stirring words were Spoken in The Athens of America, the title by which the city of Annapolis was known throughout the thirteen colonies during the de cade preceding the Revolution. The orator was John Hanson; the period the early part of the Revolutionary war; the occasion the consideration in the Maryland House of Delegates of a series of advanced and decided resolutions. When the question of their passage was put, there was an awful pause - members hesitating to stake their heads and fortunes by any hasty or overt act. It was then that John Hanson rose and made a Speech as memorable as Patrick Henry's celebrated address to the Virginia Legislature. With these brief words, Hanson sat down. They had accomplished their work. The resolutions were passed amidst much patriotic enthusiasm.
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