Protecting our independence, now and always The call for American independence came in the summer of 1776. Richard Henry Lee, an American statesman from Virginia, read his resolution in Independence Hall and it began, “Resolved: That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State ...
Aug. 7, 2013 - Austin American-Statesman