07.03.2009 10:50 am
‘The Declaration of Independence in American’
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Below (lightly edited) we reprise this wonderfully witty and engaging “translation” of the Declaration of Independence — into 20th century American parlance.
It first appeared in Baltimore Evening Sun in 1921.
It was written by H.L. Mencken, brilliant essayist, editorialist, satirist, grump, skeptic, libertarian…
