American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1823-07-01


mother, and TO assume among the powers oil the
earth the separate and equal station to which the
laws of nature and Of natures God enttle them,
deceit respect to the opinions OF mankind requires
that they should declare the causes which impel
them % the separation.
We hold these truths to be self evident--that all
men are created equal; that they are endowed by
their Creator with certain unalienable rights that
among these life, liberty, and the pursuit of hap
piness. That, to secure these rights, governments
instituted among men, deriving their Just powers
from the consent of the governed that whenever
any form OF government becomes destructive OF
these ends it is the right OF the people to alter
abolish il, and 10 institute new government, laying
~ foundation on such principles, and organizing its
powers in such form, as TO them shall seem most
likely 10 effect their safety and happiness. Plu-
dence, indeed, will dictate, that governments long
established should not be changed for light and tran
sient causes; and accordingly all experience hath
shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer,
while evils suferable, than to right themselves
by abolishlng the forms to which they are accus-
toned. But when a long train of abuses and usur-
pations, pursuing Invariably the same object, evnces
design to reduce them under absolute despotsm.
il is heir right, it is their duty, to throw Off such
government and to provide new guards for their
future security. Such has been lhc paicat suffer
ance Of these colonies; and such is now The neces
sity which constrans them 20 alter their former
systems of government. The history Of The reign
ct the present king Of Great Britain is history OF
repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in
direct object The establishment OF an absolute tyran
ny over these states. To prove this, let facts be
submitted to a candid world.
lie has refused his assent to laws the most whole.
some and necessary Tor the public good.
He has 10 hidden his governors to pass laws of
Immediate and pressing importance, unless suspen-
ded IN their operation, till his assent should be OBJ
tanned: and, when suspended he has utterly
neglected 20 attend 10 them.
lie has refused to pass other laws, for the accom-
mediation Of large districts of people, unless those
people would reiinquish the RICH. Of representation
IN the legi.lature--a right inestimabie TO them and
formidable to tyrants only.
lie has called toge her legislative bodies, at places
unusual, uncomfortable, ard distant from the de
positnry OF their public ods for the sole purpose
OF iallgulng them into compliance with his meas.
ures.
lie has dissolved representative houses repeated.
iy Tor opposing, with manly hrmness, his inyasons
on the rights OF the people.
He has refused for long tims after such dssolu-
tions 70 cause Others 10 81 elected whereby The
Legislative powers, incapable Of annhation, have
returned to the people at large for their exercise 4
The stale remaining, IN the time, exposed to|
all the danger OF invasion from without and conyui-
sions within
He has endeavored 10 prevent the population Of
these states for that purpose ob3iruclng the laws
Tor naturalization Of foreigners; refusing to pass
others, 10 encourage their migration hiher, and
asing the conditions o! new appropriations OF lands
tle has obsttucted the administrator oe Justice
by refusing his assent to laws for establishing iudi.
ciary powers.
He has made judges dependent on his will alone !,
Tor the tenure Of their Offices, and the amount and
payment of their salaries.
He has erected multitude Of new offices, and
mas sent hither swarms Of officers, harass our peo
pie, and eat out their substance.
lie has kept among US, in times Of peace, stand
ing armies without The consent Of our legislatures
lie has affected to render the military indepen-
dent OF, and superior to, the civil power.
lie has combined with others, to subject us to al
jurisdction foreign 10 our constitution, and unac
knowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their
acts OF pretended Legislation -
For quarering large bodies Of armed troops a.
mnng U.S.
For protecting them, by mock trial, from pun
lshment tor any murders which they should com.
init on the inhabitants Of these states -
FOR cutting oft our trade with all parts Of the
worId:-
For imposing taxes on US without our consent :-I
for deprlVlng US, IN many cases, OF the benefits
Of trial by jury:-
For transporting us beyond seas, to be tried for
pretended offences -
For sbolishlng the free system Of English laws 10
aneighnoHng province, establishing therein an ar
oitrary government, and charging its boundaries so
as 10 render it at once an example and ct nstru-I
nent, Tor introducing the same absolute rule into
these colonies -
For taking away orr charters, abolishing our
most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally The
forms OF our governments -.
For suSpendinS our own legislatures and declar-i
3nT themselves Invested with noyyar In lauislot.
for US in sal cases whatsoever
lie has sodcated government here, by declaring
Us out OF his protection, and wagng war against U.s.
lie has plunlered our Sens ravaned or roas,a