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SCENE 7 / 1776
THOMSON: '
Pennsylvania says "Yea."
There is a stunned silence as all eyes go to the tally
board and Pennsylvania's marker is moved into the
"Yea" column.
The count being twelve to none with one absten-
tion, the resolution on independence- sed
-is adopted.
JOHN:
It's done. It's done.
A pause.
HANCOCK:
Mr. Thomson, is the Declaration ready to be
signed?
THOMSON:
It is.
HANCOCK:
Then I suggest we do so. And the Chair further
proposes for our mutual security and protection,
that no man be allowed to sit in this Congress with-
out attaching his name to it.
All eyes now go to Dickinson.
DICKINSON:
I'm sorry, Mr. President, I cannot, in good con-
science, sign such a document. I will never stop
hoping for our eventual reconciliation with Eng-
land. But because, in my own way, I regard Amer-
ica no less than does Mr. Adams, I will join the
Army and fight in her defense-even though I be-
lieve that fight to be hopeless. Good-by, gentlemen.
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