Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Wayne County, Ind.) 1831-1837, 1833-11-23
NEW DECLARATION OF I'M oE-
PENDENCE.

when in the course OF human EVENT.
it becomes necessary for one people to
dissolve the incorporate bonds which
have connected them with Another, and
to assume the sober station, 10 which
the laws, Of nature and ofDature's God
entitled them, a decent respect for the
opinions humankind, requires that they
should declare the cause which led TO
the separation.
We hold these truths to be selEevi-
dent that all men are created sober
that they are endowed by their Creator
with certain inalienable rights-that
.among these are life, liberty, and the
pursuit Of health and happiness, that
whenever any habits become destruc-
tive to these ends, it 10 the right OF the
people to alter them. Prudence in
deed will dictate, that habits long
established should not be changed for
light aud transient causes, and accor-
DINGHY mankind are more disposed to
sutier than 10 right themselves, BY
altering the habits TO which they are
accustomed. Eut when a lorg course
Of indulgence in luxury and insoxica-
tion, es,nees a design TO reduce men
10 absolute beastliness, it is their duty
to provide new liquors for their future
security. The history Of rum is "a
history Of repeated rcvels and inebria
tons. To prove this, let facts be
81 as,antia;ed 10 candid world. It
mas called together mea at places
unusual ana uncomfortable, and distant
from the repository Of their family
records for the sole purpose ofreducing
them iato IA compliance with gill and
MALI pint measures,-it has endcasored
to prevent the population Of these
Sta,es-it has made Judges in some
instances, depend upon its excitement
alone--it has erected a multitude CT
grog shops and sent among US swarsns
OF droues to eat our snbstance-it has
kept among US in times oftempeEance,l
standing distilleries, in some cases, i'll
has rendered the military superior toI
the civil power-it has subjected us to-
a jurisdiction foreign to our constitu-
tioas-it has cut of our responsibility
with all the worid-it has imposed
imbecility upon US without our con-
seut-it mas transported Us half seas
over to be tried for pretended sobriety.
1t has taken away our appetites AID
altered fundamentally our lormerl
tabits-it has invested itself with pow
er to rule US 10 all cases whatsoeyer--i
it has plundered our l,arus-rayagedl
our lands--burOt our ihroats, and des-
:royed the lives Of our people. At
this time, large casks OF foreign liquors
are transported hither 10 complete the
work Of death, desolation aud drur.k zen
Dess-a thing totally unworthy a civil
liquor. 1t has excited domestic broi!s |
among US, and has brought or Us TIE
ibertine whose known rule
of warfare, is an undistingu,s;,ed des-
truct,on OF happincss, among all con-
iitions Of people. A liquor which is
.hus marked by every act that can
1efne ty, ant, is unit 70 be ruler Of
my people. Nor have We been wan
.lngsn attention to Brandy and Gin.
We have warned them from time to
line, Of attempts to extend an unwar-
'antaole jurisdiction over Us; but they
90 have been deaf to the voice Of ,
'eason. We must therefore, acquiesccl
u the necessity which announces our
and hold them as VIC hold
III distilled liquors--enemies IN excess; /.
n moderation the same. :
Fms. CHron. !:
The .4latans1 DiGculty.-In addition, !
avs the Augusta Chronicle, to the par /,