{"id":2289217,"date":"2024-07-04T15:01:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T19:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-adams-accurately-predicted-how-independence-day-would-be-celebrated-but-got-date-wrong\/"},"modified":"2024-07-04T15:02:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T19:02:11","slug":"john-adams-accurately-predicted-how-independence-day-would-be-celebrated-but-got-date-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-adams-accurately-predicted-how-independence-day-would-be-celebrated-but-got-date-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"John Adams Accurately Predicted How Independence Day Would Be Celebrated but Got Date Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjohn-adams-accurately-predicted-how-independence-day-would-be-celebrated-but-got-date-wrong%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2289217&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses\u2064 how Declaration\u200c of Independence signer John Adams predicted\u200b the future celebrations of American independence with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyt-silicon-valleys-prenatal-tests-for-serious-health-problems-have-a-stunning-false-positive-rate\/\" title=\"NYT: Silicon Valley&#039;s Prenatal Tests for Serious Health Problems Have a Stunning False Positive Rate\">remarkable accuracy<\/a>, although he got \u200cthe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amber-heard-tells-jurors-people-want-to-kill-my-baby-in-the-microwave\/\" title=\"Amber Heard Tells Jurors: \u201cPeople Want to Kill My Baby in the Microwave\u201d\">date wrong<\/a>. The \u200darticle describes the events \u200cleading up to \u2062the Declaration of Independence and highlights\u200d Adams&#8217; foresight in envisioning the celebrations that would\u2063 take \u200cplace. It also\u200b mentions the deaths of Adams and Thomas Jefferson on the\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fans-flock-to-hong-kong-to-mark-50th-anniversary-of-bruce-lees-death\/\" title=\"Fans gather in Hong Kong to commemorate Bruce Lee&#039;s death, 50 years later.\">50th \u2064anniversary<\/a> of the Declaration&#8217;s adoption. Ultimately, Adams&#8217; affirmation of July 4\u2062 as the \u200bdate \u200bof\u200b American \u2064independence\u200c is emphasized. The article also includes a message from the staff about the importance\u200d of the upcoming 2024\u200d election.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"> <?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<header> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/news\/\">  News <\/a>   <span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/randydesoto\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span>   By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/randydesoto\/%20\"><span>Randy DeSoto<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <span>   July 4, 2024 at 10:45am <\/span> <\/span>  <\/header>\n<section>\n<p>Declaration of Independence signer John Adams predicted, with astounding accuracy, how the people of the United States would celebrate their liberty in the generations to come.<\/p>\n<p>But he did get the date the celebration would occur wrong.<\/p>\n<p>By the summer of 1776, anticipation had been growing for months that the 13 colonies would declare their independence.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cshot heard around the world\u201d had been fired at the village green in Lexington, Massachusetts, on April 19, 1775, marking the beginning of the war with Great Britain. Other fighting followed thereafter.<\/p>\n<p>Then in January 1776, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/thomas-paines-common-sense-turns-248-years-old-month-stirring-words-extremely-relevant-today\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thomas Paine<\/a> wrote his wildly successful \u201cCommon Sense,\u201d forcefully making the case for independence.<\/p>\n<p>In March of that year, Abigail Adams <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masshist.org\/digitaladams\/archive\/doc?id=L17760331aa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> from Massachusetts to her husband John Adams, a delegate to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, \u201cI long to hear that you have declared an independency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adams served on the five-person <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archives.gov\/founding-docs\/declaration-history#:~:text=The%20committee%20consisted%20of%20two,southerner%2C%20Thomas%20Jefferson%20of%20Virginia.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">drafting committee<\/a> for the Declaration that included <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-ramaswamy-echoing-thomas-jeffersons-pro-america-anti-establishment-wisdom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thomas Jefferson<\/a> of Virginia, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ben-franklin-stunned-great-revivals-impact-people-went-indifferent-fervent-believers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Benjamin Franklin<\/a> of Pennsylvania, Robert Livingston of New Jersey and Roger Sherman of Connecticut.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Michael Smith wrote this moving account of the fate that befell many of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence:<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence?<br \/> Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0Kjyc4FJsP\">pic.twitter.com\/0Kjyc4FJsP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealJamesWoods\/status\/1676268367261630465?\">July 4, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In mid-June 1776, they were tasked with writing a statement that would justify to the world the colonies\u2019 decision to become a separate nation.<\/p>\n<p>On July 1, the Continental Congress reconvened to take up the issue of independence.<\/p>\n<p>The following day, July 2, the Congress considered a resolution offered by Richard Henry Lee of Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat 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 of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved,\u201d the document read.<\/p>\n<p>The Congress voted to sever ties with the mother country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival,\u201d Adams <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masshist.org\/digitaladams\/archive\/doc?id=L17760703jasecond&#038;rec=sheet&#038;archive=&#038;hi=&#038;numRecs=&#038;query=&#038;queryid=&#038;start=&#038;tag=&#038;num=10&#038;bc=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> Abigail on July 3.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt ought to be commemorated, as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/four-fascinating-coincidences-involving-presidents-lives-fourth-july\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Day of Deliverance<\/a> by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s exactly what has happened. It\u2019s interesting that his wording suggests that Adams foresaw the United States eventually crossing the whole North American continent.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fyr_KQSegnU?si=FcjupUMX1l5OkRQC\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What Adams did not anticipate is that July 4, 1776, is the date Americans would grab on to, the day the Declaration was adopted.<\/p>\n<p>The date appears prominently right at the top of the document.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">United States Declaration of Independence (1823 William Stone facsimile), ratified July 4, 1776. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IndependenceDay?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IndependenceDay<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8QbUQ6j4D6\">pic.twitter.com\/8QbUQ6j4D6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bibliophilia (@Libroantiguo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Libroantiguo\/status\/750024858306838528?\">July 4, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Certainly by the 50th anniversary of the United States, Adams was well aware that July 4 was the date of celebration.<\/p>\n<p>On July 4th, 1826, both he and Jefferson were still alive, but in failing health.<\/p>\n<p>Adams <a href=\"https:\/\/founders.archives.gov\/?q=&#038;s=1111311111&#038;sa=&#038;r=4&#038;sr=weightman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> the organizer of the Washington, D.C. Jubilee commemoration thanking him for the invitation to be part of the event but lamenting \u201cmy health forbids me to indulge the hope of participating only with my best wishes for the increasing prosperity of your City.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jefferson also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/exhibits\/jefferson\/214.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sent<\/a> his regrets that he could not attend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI should, indeed, with peculiar delight, have met and exchanged there congratulations personally with the small band, the remnant of that host of worthies, who joined with us on that day, in the bold and doubtful election we were to make for our country, between submission or the sword; and to have enjoyed with them the consolatory fact, that our fellow citizens, after half a century of experience and prosperity, continue to approve the choice we made,\u201d he penned.<\/p>\n<p>Then in the ultimate coup de gr\u00e2ce, both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/four-fascinating-coincidences-involving-presidents-lives-fourth-july\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adams and Jefferson died<\/a> on the very day of the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.loc.gov\/headlinesandheroes\/2022\/07\/deaths-of-john-adams-and-thomas-jefferson-on-july-4th\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-pleases-his-communist-chinese-overlords-by-posting-ancient-poem-to-social-media\/\" title=\"Elon Musk Pleases His Communist Chinese Overlords by Posting Ancient Poem to Social Media\">50th anniversary\u00a0celebration<\/a><\/a> of the adoption of the Declaration.<\/p>\n<p>The great orator and Massachusetts statesman Daniel Webster <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/four-fascinating-coincidences-involving-presidents-lives-fourth-july\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">observed<\/a> in a eulogy for Jefferson and Adams, \u201cPoetry itself has hardly terminated illustrious lives, and finished the career of earthly renown, by such a consummation. If we had the power, we could not wish to reverse this dispensation of the Divine Providence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt cannot but seem striking and extraordinary that these two should live to see the fiftieth year from the date of that act; that they should complete that year; and that then, on the day which had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/four-fascinating-coincidences-involving-presidents-lives-and-the-fourth-of-july\/\" title=\"Four intriguing presidential &#039;coincidences&#039; on the Fourth of July.\">fast linked forever<\/a> their own fame with their country\u2019s glory, the heavens should open to receive them both at once,\u201d Webster added.<\/p>\n<p>So in death, Adams had affirmed that July 4, not July 2, was the date American independence should be remembered and lauded.<\/p>\n<p><em>Randy DeSoto is the author of the book \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/THESE-TRUTHS-Randall-Norman-DeSoto\/dp\/1604772689\/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&#038;qid=1687992036&#038;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">We Hold These Truths<\/a>\u201d about the influence of the Declaration of Independence throughout Unites States history. <\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p><b><i>An Important Message from Our Staff:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span>In just a few months, the world is going to change forever. 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Despite this, July 4, 1776, the day the Declaration of Independence was adopted, has become the date Americans celebrate their independence. Adams foresaw a grand celebration with parades, games, and fireworks across the continent. Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died on the 50th anniversary of the Declaration&#8217;s adoption, solidifying July 4 as the day of American independence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":2289218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Adams-July-4.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[33892,33948,12999],"class_list":["post-2289217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-independence-day","tag-john-adams","tag-prediction"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Adams-July-4.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2289217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2289218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2289217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2289217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2289217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}