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| Columbia's Daily Phoenix Newspaper July 1867. |
Happy Fourth of July readers! Many of you are probably busy enjoying a day off work by getting drunk and lighting papers stuffed full of gun powder on fire, which is a fine time-honored tradition practiced by Americans for many generations. However, before you grab the cooler and the matches ask yourself how much do you know about the four South Carolinians who signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776? You may have heard of Edward Rutledge thanks to his (rather melodramatic) penchant for belting out show tunes and, of course, his fabulous taste in wigs but I bet the names of the other three men are a bit harder to remember (without a trip to Google). No worries! Because I have decided to spend my Fourth the best way I know how - by doing a bunch of research and writing an essay about it.
