Declaration of Independence Mystery Man

I admit that I never heard of this conspiracy either. It appears that some mystery man rallied the men gathered to sign the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 with a rather odd speech from the second floor of the State House in Philadelphia. Supposedly, he stopped the bickering and caused the great document to be signed.

This is what he allegedly said (according to Thomas Jefferson), who was known to exaggerate:

"Gibbet! They may stretch our necks on all the gibbets in the land; they may turn every rock into a scaffold; every tree into a gallows; every home into a grave, and yet the words of that parchment can never die! They may pour our blood on a thousand scaffolds, and yet from every drop that dies the axe a new champion of freedom will spring into birth! The British King may blot out the stars of God from the sky, but he cannot blot out His words written on that parchment there. The works of God may perish; His words, never!
"The words of this declaration will live in the world long after our bones are dust. To the mechanic in his workshop they will speak hope: to the slave in the mines freedom: but to the coward kings, these words will speak in tones of warning they cannot choose but hear.
"Sign that parchment! Sign, if the next moment the gibbet's rope is about your neck! Sign, if the next minute this hall rings with the clash of falling axes! Sign, by all of your hopes in life or death, as men, as husbands, as fathers, brothers, sign your names to the parchment, or be accursed forever! Sign, and not only for yourselves, but for all ages, for that parchment will be the textbook of freedom, the bible of the rights of man forever.
"Nay, do not start and whisper with surprise! It is truth, your own hearts witness it: God proclaims it. Look at this strange band of exiles and outcasts, suddenly transformed into a people; a handful of men, weak in arms, but mighty in God-like faith; nay, look at your recent achievements, your Bunker Hill, your Lexington, and then tell me, if you can, that God has not given America to be free!
"It is not give to our poor human intellect to climb to the skies and to pierce the Council of the Almighty One. But methinks I stand among the awful clouds which veils the brightness of Jehovah's throne.
"Methinks I see the recording Angel come trembling up to the throne and speak his dread message. 'Father, the old world is baptized in blood. Father, look with one glance of Thine eternal eye, and behold evermore that terrible sight, man trodden beneath the oppressor's feet, nations lost in blood, murder, and superstition, walking hand in hand over the graves of the victims, and not a single voice of hope to man!'
"He stands there, the Angel, trembling with the record of human guilt, But hark! The voice of God speaks from the awful cloud: 'Let there be Light again! Tell my people, the poor and oppressed, to go out from the old world, from oppression and blood, and build my alter in the new.'
"As I live, my friends, I believe that to be his voice! Yes, were my soul trembling on the verge of eternity, were this hand freezing in death, were this voice choking in the last struggle, I would still, with the last impulse of that soul, with the last wave of that hand, with the last gasp of that voice, implore you to remember this truth--God has given America to be free!
"Yes, as I sank into the gloomy shadows of the grave, with my last faint whisper I would beg you to sign that parchment for the sake of those millions whose very breath is now hushed in intense expectation as they look up to you for the awful words: 'You are free.'"

This spirited speech supposedly caused the reluctant attendees to quickly put their signatures on the document. How he got in the locked and guarded room without anyone seeing him is a mystery.

Who was this guy? Some say he was St. Germain. I've already discussed that guy. Others say he was Francis Bacon. The consensus is that he was a Freemason or possibly a Rosicrucian. Of course, this leads to a conspiracy theory that the Masons or the Rosicrucian's had a secret agenda relative to the war of independence.

The best theory I've seen is that John Hanson, the alleged first president of the United States, was the man who did this. For those of you that don't know, John Hanson was supposedly elected president of the first Continental Congress (Before the Constitution) and that he was a black man. Some say this is a myth. I don't know what's true or not, but it sure is interesting. It turns out that the documented presidents of the Continental Congress were Peyton Randolph of Virginia and then Henry Middleton of South Carolina. John Hancock was subsequently elected as president. Then it was Henry Laurens of South Carolina, after which is was John Jay. Then it was Samuel Huntington of Connecticut, followed by Thomas McKean, and John Hanson was elected to this office on November 5, 1781 and served a one-year term.
I must say here that this might be a myth. It turns out that the singing of the Declaration of Independence was an event that wasn't documented very well. There is a question as to when they actually signed the document and whether they actually debated it before hand. Supposedly, it wasn't signed on one day. It's one of those historical events that tend to attract theories and speculation.

Thanks for reading.