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We Must All Hang Together
August 2, 1776. Carpenters’ Hall. The heat was murderous, the air thick with fear-sweat, hot wax, and the metallic bite of fresh ink. One by one the delegates stepped forward to sign what many still believed was their own death warrant.
John Hancock went first — theatrical, defiant, his oversized flourish practically daring King George to come and get him. Benjamin Franklin watched with tired eyes and delivered the line that briefly cut the tension: “We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.”
But the room was far from united. Button Gwinnett and George Walton of…
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