Economic Stimulus, Financial Markets React, Treasury Auctions, Covid Update How does this all end? I don't know that it does end. Church bells rang. This was the fastest way to spread the news. The speed of sound was even faster, and more effective in communicating that something had changed than was the telegraph for common folk. Townspeople from all across what was still these "united" States gathered in town centers in order to learn what this commotion was all about. July 4th, the birth date of a nation, in 1863, also as it happened, became the date that that word... the word "united" became not just an adjective but part of a proper name.