The Liberty Bell

The Liberty Bell

The Pennsylvania Assembly makes an arrangement to the bell rings on 1751 to commemorate the 50 year anniversary of William Penn’s. He speaks of the right and freedoms valued all over the world. And he forwards the thinking of the freedom of religious. So he is very important on the freedom of race, and the freedom of religious. The Bell was created to commemorate the golden anniversary of Penn’s charter, and it quotation from Leviticus 25:10 by the bible, it says “Proclaim Liberty through all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.”
On July 8, 1776, a sound of the ring changed the world. It’s ring out from the tower of the independence hall. The citizens of Philadelphia hear the first public reading of the Declaration of independence by Colonel John Nixon.
When they try hard to put an end to slavery throughout America adopted. They used the liberty as a sign.

The crack on the bell

When the first crack appeared in the bell there is a lot of disagreement about it. There is a small cracks on bell were bored out to avoid to be larger and larger. But, it is agree at the final expansion of the crack that rendered the Bell can not ring was on Washington’s Birthday in 1846. Philadelphia Public Ledger take up the story on February 26, 1846 publication: "The old Independence Bell rang its last clear note on Monday last in honor of the birthday of Washington and now hangs in the great city steeple irreparably cracked and dumb. It had been cracked before but was set in order of that day by having the edges of the fracture filed so as not to vibrate against each other ... It gave out clear notes and loud, and appeared to be in excellent condition until noon, when it received a sort of compound fracture in a zig-zag direction through one of its sides which put it completely out of tune and left it a mere wreck of what it was."

The history of the Bell

• 1751, November 1, a letter sent to Robert Charles, he was a man was Colonial agent of the Province of Pennsylvania who was work in London. He bought the Bell on the State House (now the independence Hall).
• 1752, September 1, the Bell was arrive at Philadelphia. But in just stay there until March 10, 1753, when Isaac Norris wrote “I had the mortification to hear that it was cracked by a stroke of the clapper without any other viollence [sic] as it was hung up to try the sound."
• 1753, March 29, the new Bell was raised in the tower. "Upon trial, it seems that they have added too much copper. They were so teased with the witticisms of the town that they will very soon make a second essay," Isaac Norris wrote to London agent Robert Charles. Now there was nobody likes the tone of the bell. So they broke the bell up and made it again.
• 1753, June 11, the new York Mercury reported “Last Week was raised and fixed in the Statehouse Steeple, the new great Bell, cast here by Pass and Stow, weighing 2080 lbs." in November, Norris wrote to Robert Charles that he was still displeased the bell and want Whitechapel to made a new one. When the new bell arrived, in the same time that England was agree that it should sounded no better than the Pass and Stow bell. So the” Liberty Bell” remained where it was in the steeple, and the new Whitechapel bell was placed in the cupola on the State House roof and attached to the clock to sound the hours.
• 1772, a petition was sent to the Assembly stating that the people live around here of the State House were “incommoded and distressed" by the constant "ringing of the great Bell in the steeple."
• 1777, October, the British capture Philadelphia. Weeks earlier they move the entire bell to the other city.

Reference material

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Bell
• http://home.att.net/~honorAmerica/libertybell/history/bellfacts.htm
• http://www.libertybellmuseum.com/
• http://www.answers.com/topic/liberty-bell
• http://www.ushistory.org/libertybell/
• http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/North_America/United_States_of_America/Pennsylvania/Philadelphia-860659/Things_To_Do-Philadelphia-Liberty_Bell-BR-1.html
• http://www.gophila.com/C/Things_to_Do_in_Philadelphia/211/Historic_Philadelphia/624/Museums_and_Attractions__Historic_Philadelphia/626/U/The_Liberty_Bell_Center/128.html?utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=cpc&utm_content=Attractions&utm_campaign=Historic+2009+Yahoo+PPC+Attractions