Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1829-09-17
Ne,O Declaration Of independence.

Nsw Declaration Of Independence.
When In tho course ofhuman events II
becomes necessary for one people to dis
solve the Incorporate bonds which bind
them with another, aud to assume tho SO-
Der station 10 which the laws Of nature and
natures God entities them, n decent re
spect to tho opinions Of mankind requires
that they should declare tho causes which
impel them to tho separation.
We hold these truths 10 DO selE-evidcnt;
that all mon uro created sober; that they
uro endowed by their Creator with certain
unOlcnable rights-thut among these, aro
life, liberty, and tho pursuit Of health; that
whenever any habits become destructive
to these ends, It is The right Of the people
to alter them. Prudence, indeed, will dc
tato, that habits long established should
not DO changed for slight and trivial causes
and accordingly mankind are moro disposed
to suffer, than to right themselves by alter
ing tho habits to which they Ind been ac-
custon,od. But when long course Of in
dulgence in luxury and intoxica,ion evin-
COS design to reduce mon TO absolute
6edstliness, II Is thcir duty toprovdo new
liquors for their security. Tho history Of
rum is II history Of repeated vccsIs and ~
GJri0fiOas. TO provo this, let facts DO
submitted to candid world.
1t has called together mon at places I'M
usual and uncomfortable, and distant from
the depository Of their family records, for
tho solo purpose Of reducing Thorn into
compliance with gill and half pint meas-
urcs it has endGuvorod 10 prevent the
population Of these States has made Judg-
eS depend upon its excitement alone i,
has erected multitude Of grog shops, aud
sent among us swarms ofdronos to eat our
substance; 1t has kept amongst US, In time
Of temperance, diStillcrieS and In some
cases Il has rendered tho military superior
to tho civil power 1t has subjected us to
a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution;
II has cut of our responsibility with all tho
world; II has imposed imOscility on us
without our consent II has transported us
half seas oVer,to DO triod for pretended So
briefly: It has taken away our oppotites,
and altered fundamentally our former h0b.
its: II hus invested itself with power to
rulo US in all cases whatever IL has plum
dcred our barns, rNvaged our lands, burnt
our thronts, and destroyed the lives Of our
people at this time large cases of foreign
liquors are transported to complete the
work Of death, desolation and drunken.
ness,a thing totally unworthy ciViV liquor
II has excited domestic broils among us, |
and has brought on as tho morciless liber-
tino, whose known mode Of warfare Is on |
undistinguished destruction Of happiness
nmong all conditions Of people. A HQWsr
which is thus marked by every act that can
define tyrans, IL unfit to DO tho ruler Of
my people.
Nor have we been wanting in attention
to Brandy and TVhiskey. We have warm
cd them from time to timo Of attempts 10
extend an unwarran,Nble jurisdiction over
us, but they too have been denf to tho voice
Of reason. We must therefore acquiesce
in tho necessity which denounces our sop
a,ation, and to hold them NJ VIC hold MI H.
quors-ono,nies IN oxcess-in moderation
friends. american.
A schoolmaster, while surrounded by
his scholars at night school, was one eve-
ming engaged in writing copy, listening
at the same time to some young men, app
prentices, reciting lesson in the .esta-
uCutS WUu WIS iuNWCu Wy WIZ VI NtGtU Win
the following reading OF Matt. %, 24:-
+" Ye blind guides which strain at gate,
and swallow sGU-miW." What's that I"
cried the astonished teacher, "how do you
spell gate ?" +" G.u.a.t, SIR" A." Admira-
bio we'll now. sir, If you please, spell
sas0-miW for u.s." "C-a, sac, m-e-l, mill,
saW-miN."
Time to MGrry.-Let young man who
wishes to 1.-Two long and happy, got married
at twenty, to young lady Of eighteen
AT these ages both sexes are most capable
oflasling attachment.
Two whiskercd handles, with hair e.
nough under their chns to make grena-
dier's cap, went to the British Institution.
On reading the inscription over the door,
" No dogs admitted" the foremost turned
to his friend and wittily observed, [" You
must go back, Fred, you see they don't adj
init you." "Oh, don't be frightened, gen.
ilemen," said the door keeper, "you may
both come I'M" adding as he quietly pock-
etCd their cash, "the regulation does not
extend to puppies"