Excerpt from Child's History of the United States, Vol. 2 of 2 When that Declaration was made known, the peo ple burst into transports of joy. The statue of King George, which stood in the Bowling Green in New York, was torn down and melted into musket-balls. In Boston and Philadelphia every picture or statue of a king was destroyed; even the signs over the doors of the shops on which crowns or kings' heads were painted were pulled down and torn to pieces. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.