=92. The Second Continental Congress.= Just as the British were marching into Lexington on that famous April morning, Samuel Adams, with John Hancock, was leaving for Philadelphia, where Congress was to meet again. As he heard the guns of the minutemen answer the guns of the regulars, Adams said to Hancock: "What a glorious morning is this!" The members from Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York were escorted across the Hudson to Newark, New Jersey, and entertained at a great dinner, with speeches. Near Philadelphia a large procession of armed men and carriages met and escorted them into the city, where bells told of their coming. When this Congress met, Samuel Adams seconded the motion of his cousin, John Adams, that George Washington, of Virginia, be made the general of all the American troops. He saw his own neighbor, John Hancock, made president of the Congress. [Sidenote: =Samuel Adams among the first to favor independence=] =93. The Declaration of Independence.= For more than a year Samuel Adams worked hard to get the Congress to make a Declaration of Independence. Richard Henry Lee, of Virginia, introduced a motion into the Congress for independence. The Declaration was made, July 4, 1776, and Samuel Adams, as a great leader of the Revolution, had done his work. But, with other noble men, he still labored with all his powers, in Congress and at home, to help America win her independence. [Sidenote: =Governor of Massachusetts=] After independence had been won, Samuel Adams still served his state, and was elected governor of Massachusetts only a few years before his death, which occurred in 1803, at the age of eighty-one. [Illustration: AN OLD QUILL PEN] SUGGESTIONS INTENDED TO HELP THE PUPIL =The Leading Facts.= _1._ The French and Indian War put both England and her colonies in debt, but the king thought only of England's debt. _2._ Great opposition to the Stamp Act in all the colonies. _3._ Patrick Henry made a great speech against the Virginia parsons, and a second on the Stamp Act. _4._ He went to the first Continental Congress and made many friends; came home and made a great speech saying that war would come. _5._ Made governor of Virginia many times. _6._ Samuel Adams studied hard, failed in several occupations, and went into politics. _7._ Led the patriots against the soldiers, the Stamp Act, and planned the Tea Party. _8._ Samuel Adams sent to Continental Congress, where he made many friends. _9._ Urged a Declaration of Independence in 1776. _10._ Made governor of Massachusetts.