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A rare copy of the Declaration of Independence survived the Civil War hidden behind wallpaper. Later

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...op-stories-2_declaration-425pm:homepage/story

During the Civil War, the precious document was hidden behind wallpaper in a home in Virginia to keep Union soldiers from finding it.

Later, it sat in a closet in Kentucky, in a broken frame, unappreciated and stored in a cardboard box.

And later still it was stuck behind a cabinet in the office of an energy executive outside Houston.

It was a rare parchment copy of the Declaration of Independence, made in Washington in the 1820s for founding father James Madison, and apparently unknown to the public for more than a century.
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Hopefully this will be placed on public display.
 
The pertinent portion:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.


The self evident truths were put in order for a reason..........
 
JANFU said:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...op-stories-2_declaration-425pm:homepage/story

During the Civil War, the precious document was hidden behind wallpaper in a home in Virginia to keep Union soldiers from finding it.

Later, it sat in a closet in Kentucky, in a broken frame, unappreciated and stored in a cardboard box.

And later still it was stuck behind a cabinet in the office of an energy executive outside Houston.

It was a rare parchment copy of the Declaration of Independence, made in Washington in the 1820s for founding father James Madison, and apparently unknown to the public for more than a century.


Hopefully this will be placed on public display.
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So, one could wonder, what would the Union soldiers have done with the document, if they would have found the document?
 
Now why can't I find something like this, in an old attic?

Anyway, two interesting excerpts:

His family had once had it framed and put on the mantelpiece. His parents knew it had been passed down through his family from Madison. But in the 1960s it was considered “worthless,” O’Mara said.
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What? I'm at a loss to understand!

“I agreed to buy it,” Rubenstein said in a recent telephone interview, noting only that he had paid “seven figures” for it.
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That's more like it!
 
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