[Prompt Script from Scene 7 of 1776] Page: 2 of 74
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SCENE 7 / 1776 109
I've got one!
Over here!
[Et cetera.]
HANcoCK, pounding the gavel for order:
Gentlemen, please! McNair, you'd better open the
window. Colonel McKean, I saw your hand first.
McKEAN:
Mr. Jefferson, it's a bonny paper y've written, but
somewhere in it y've mentioned "Scottish and for-
eign mercenaries sent t'destroy us." Scottish, Tom?JOHN:
It's in reference to a Highland regiment which
stood against us at Boston.
MCKEAN:
Och, it was more likely Germans wearin' kilts to
disguise their bein' there. I ask y'to remove the
word and avoid givin' offense to a good people.
THOMsON:
Mr. Jefferson?
Jefferson nods and Thomson scratches his quill pen
through the word. The many hands go up again.
HANCoCK:
The Reverend Witherspoon?
WrrfIERSPOON:
Mr. Jefferson, nowhere do you mention the Su-
preme Being. Certainly this was an oversight, for
how could we hope to achieve a victory without
His help? Therefore I must humbly suggest the
following addition to your final sentence: "With a
firm reliance on the protection of Divine Provi-
dence."Again Thomson
looks at John; thlooks at Jefferson, who in turn
e two patriots shrug, then Jeff er-C
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Fulks, Lewis. [Prompt Script from Scene 7 of 1776], script, 1975-08~; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth865106/m1/2/?q=%22~1~1~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Christian University Library.