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In CONGRESS; July 4, 1776. A
^ DECLARATION by the Representatives
€ fMe UNITED STATES ^AMERICA,
in General Congress afembled.
^•^.* ^ 3 °n HEN in the course of hdmari events,
& ^^ ,$ " becomes necessary for one People te
*^^ Yr, di/Blve the political bands which have
' conn ™ed them with another, and to
MX ^ assume among the powers of the earth,
fc^ *V%_^ th- Separate and equal ftatioo to
which the laws of Nature and of
Nature's God entitle them, a decent reaped to the
opinions of mankind requires that they should declare
the causes which impel them to the feparatiori.
We hold these truths to be felf evident, that all
men are created equal, that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among
these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness—
That to Secure these rights, Governments are instituted
among men, deriving their just powers from the eon
feot of the governed, that whenever any form of Go
vernment becomes deftrudlive of these ends, it is the
rig ! t of the People to alter or to abolilh it, and to in^
ftitute new Government, laying its foundation on such
principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as
tc them Ihall seem m ft likely to effeft their fafety and
happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Go
vernments lorg efttblifhed should not be changed for
light and transient causes; and accordingly all experi
ence hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to
fuffer, while evils a r e fufferable, than to right them
feives by ab dishing the forms to which they are accuf
toned. But when a lorig train pf abuses and u'urpa
tiors, pu^ung invariably the fame objed, evinces a
def;^ to reduce them Under abfoltite despotism, it is
the right, it is their duty, to throw off such Govern
ment, and to provide new guards for their future
security. Such has beeri the patient fufferance of these
Colonies , and such is now the neceffi y which constrains
them to alter their former systems of G vernment.
The history of the present King of Great-Britain is a
hirtory of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having
in direct objed the e^ablifhment of an absolute tyranny
over these States. To prove this, let fads be submit
ted to a candid world.
He has refufed his assent to laws, the most whole
feme and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass laws of imme
diate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their
operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so
suspended, he has utterly negleded to attend to them.
He has refufed to pass other laws for the accommo
dation of large dilrids of people, unless those people
would relinquish the right of representation in the Le
gifl tore, a right inestimable to them, and formidable
to tyrants only.
He h^s called together legislative bodies at places
unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the deposi
tor; of their public records, for the sole purpose of
fatten ng them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Rtprefentative Hoofed repeatedly,
for opposing with manly firmnefs his invasions oti the
rights o- ithe People.
He has refufed for a long time, after such difToluti
ors, to cause others to be elected ; whereby the legisla
tive powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned
to the people at large for their exercise; the State re
maining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of
invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of
these States; for that purpose obftru&ing the laws for
naturalization of foreigners ; refilling to pass others to
encourage their migrations hither, and railing the Con
ditions of new appropriations of lands.
He has obftrufted the administration of justice, by re
ftifing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.
He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for
the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment
®f their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent
hither swarms of officers to harrafs our people, and eat
out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Landing
armies, without the consent of our Legillatures.
He has affe&ed to render the military independent
•f and superior to the civil power.
O R
GENERAL
V O L. V.
MONDA Y, JULY Bth, 1776.
DU N L A P's
He has combined with others to fabjed us to a ju
rifdißin foreign to onr conftitotion, and unacknow-
Id„d by our laws; giving his assent to their ads of
pretended ^,fiction: ^ > .^
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For prot^ing them, by a mock trial, from punish
ment for any mnrde-s which they should commit on
the inhabitants of these States :
For cutting ff our trade with a ! l par's of the world:
For impo^ng taxes on us without our consent:
For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of
trial by jury:,
For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pre
tended offences:
For abolishing the free system of Englilh laws in a
neighbouring province, establishing therein an arbitra
ry Government, and enlarging its boundaries, so as
to render it at once an example and fit instrument for
introducing the fame absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our charters, abolishing our most
valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms
of our Governments :
For suspending out own Legislatures, and declaring
themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all
cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us
out of his protection and waging war against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt
bur towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is. at this ime, transporting large armies of fo
reign mercenaries to compleat the works of death, de
solation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances
of crue ty and perfidy, scarcely paralleled in the most
ba barous ages, ahd totally unworthy the Head of a
civilized nation.
He has constrained cur fellow citizens taken captive
on the high seas to bear arms against heir country to
become the executioners of their f lends and brethren,
or to fall themselves by their hands.
He has excited domestic infurredions amongst us,
and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our
frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whole known
rule of warfare, is an undiftnguifhed deftrudion of all
ages Texes and conditions.
In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned
for redress in the most humble, terms : Our repeated
petitions have been answered only by repeated injury.
A Prince whole character is thus marked by every ad
which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler ofa
free people.
Ner have we been wanting in attentions to our Bri
tilh brethren. We have warned them from time to
time of attempts by their legislature to extend an un
warrantable jurifdi&ion over us. We have reminded
them of the circumstances of our emigration and feitle
ment here. We have appealed to their native justice
and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the
ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpa
tions, which, would inevitably interrupt our connecti
ons and correspondence. They too have been deaf to
the voice of justice and consanguinity. We must,
therefore, acquiefee in the necessity, which denounces
our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of
mankind, enemies in war, in peace, friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives ofthe UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA, in General Congress
alfembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the
World for the reditude of our intentions, do, in the
name, ahd by the authority ofthe good People of these
Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these
United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, FREE
and INDEPENDENT STATES; that they are
abfclvhd from all allegiance to the Britilh Crown, and
that all political connexion between them and the
State of Great-Britain, is and ought to be totally dis
solved ; and that as FREE and INDEPENDENT
STATES, they have full power to levy war, conclude
peace, con-trad alliances, eftablim commerce, and to
do all other ads ard things which INDEPENDENT
STATES may of right do. And for the support of
this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection
of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other
our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.
Signed by order and in behalf of the Congref,
JOHN HANCOCK, President.
Attefi. Charles Thomson, Secretary.
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ADVERTISER.
': '' Philadelphia; July 8, 1776.
TH E uncommon expehce attending the
publication of a News-paper at this day,
obliges the Printer to inform those Gentlemen
indebted for this paper longer ! than Twelve
Months; that, without pay, it cannot be conti
nued to them more than Four Weeks from this
date.—•—Subferibers at a diftahce can fend their
money by letter (Post paid) or any other speedy
way that may suit them best : And Subferibers in
and near Baltimore will please to fettle their ac
compts with Mr. James Hayes, of that place,
Who is fully authorifed to receive the fame.
JOHN DUNLAP,
Juftpublifad and te be fold b, JOHN DUNLAP,
in Market-frect, Philadelphia,
O BSERVATIONS
O N TH'E
Nature of CIVIL LIBERTY, the Principles
of GOVERNMEN T, and the jailice and
Policy of the W AR, with AMERICA.
To mhich if added,
An APPEND X, containing a ffate of the Nation,
al Debt, an estimate of the money drawn from the
Public by the taxes, and an account ofthe National
Income and Expenditure since the last War.
Heu miferi cives; non Ho/tem, ininfo^ue cafra,
'— -Vejiras Spes urirtis., < ,V,RG.
By RICHARD.PRICE, D.D. F.R.S.
*, Thisdearoed, judicious and liberal author had
the shanks ofthe Common Council, and the Freedom
of the City of London presented to him in a gold . %,
for this his much admired most excellent pamphlet oh
Civil Libert, —And f\r which he also defetves the
United thanks of American
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N, C)W to be disposed of b/ wholesale, 0:1
XN reasonable terms lor rear< mpn^y, rrlhort credit
(giving security if required) by |o'H N MURRAY,
at the Trap, Philadelphia County, all the GOODS
he has now on hand, amounting t n twelve hundred
pounds, or thereabouts.— —A^b to be ^footed of, the
ieafe of the Hoafe And Stores now in his put ffion.
N. B. As Aid Murray intends uniting business in
tb-t part of the country, he bees all those indebted to
him to fend in their accompts and receive their money.
Tobe SOLD by PUBLIC VENDUE,
at Capt. Kendal Cole's, near Haddonfield, in New-
Jersey, on Monday, the Sth day of July infant, at
Ten o'clock in the morning,,
7,ETWEEN sixty and seventy CATTLE, a large
° part of which will consist of four years old fleers and
spayed heifers ; the remainder dry cows, oxen, bulls,
young cattle, and cows and calves ; at which time and
place the conditions of sale will be made known, f
, < Philadelphia. :u!ys, 1776.
Tobe SOLD by PUBLIC S A LE;
on Monday the tid instant, (July) a#, fe en o'clock in
the evening at the London CoffVt-houie,
A CERTAIN lot or piece of ground, lituate on
ft the north fide of Mulberry or Arch-ftrert, between
Third and Fourth-Greets, in this city, being 25 feet
front on said street, and 124. feet in depth. And on
Tueßlay the 23d instant, at three o'clock in the after
noon, will.be fold at the sign of the Mermaid, in Ken,
fington, fifteen lots of ground, situate in Kenfin, ton
aforefaid, agreeable to a plan to.be seen at the Coff-e
---houfe and at the place of f;le, viz. four lots ig^nd a
half feet front each on a ftrect 50 feet wide, called Queen
ftreet, and about $2 feet d^ep; five Iqts 20 feet front
each on a street 30 feet wi/3% called Biffiop facet, and
78 feet deep; four lots i§ and a half feet front each on
a street 52 be: wide, being the nrft street from the river
Delaware and running parallel with it ; one water-lot 7$
feet front on the latt mentioned street, and extending in
depth ,to low-water mark ; also one lot fituarte on Marl
borough-street, between Queen-street and the river De.
laware, being id feet front on said street and 100 feet
deep. All the said lots are clear of ground-rent. Late
the estate of jofeph Watkins, fen. deceased.
JOSEPH WATKINS,?
JAMES WATKINS, (Executors.
SAMUEL DAVIS,'
N. Bi If the weather.fliomd prove unfavourable the
sale will begin on the next fair day. §
T, IGHT thousand acres of good LAN D,
in the Conn," of Al'b?n< ;and Province of New-
York, to be fold 0} CHARLES WHARTON, $
numb: 24^.