Litchfield enquirer., 1838-08-09
lRY REQUEST I

through a thousand generations.
 DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
 nence Men, July 4th, 1888. By E. D. Tarr,
 Esq. ..-.
 When in the course of human events. ii becomes necessary for the safety of our poli- tical privileges and the good of mankind, to free ourselves of usage, which is alike de- structive of both, which the luws of God, and the welfare of our country demand a decent respect to the opinions of others requires that we should declare the causes which impel us to the separation.
 We hold these truths to be self evident :- that all men are created free agents-that they are endowed by their Creator with cer- tain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happi- ness-that to secure these rights, God has endowed his creatures with the faculties of reason,perception,a ,and djudgment-that when- ever any custom or usage becomes destruc- tive of these ends, it is our right to alter or abolish them, and to institute new ones, lay- ing foundations on such principles as shall seem most likely to affect our safety and appiness.-Prudence indeed would dictate, that customs long established should not be
 
 causes; and, accordingly, all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when long train of abuses and evils, pursuing in- variably the same objects, tend to reduce them to absolute degradation and misery, it is their right, it is their duty, to lay aside such custom or usage. and provide new guards for their future security.
 Such has been the patient sufferance of the people of these United Srates-s such is the necessity that constrains them to denounce as injurious the use of at intoricating drinks as bepsrage. The history of intoricatiag drinks, ever since their first institution as such, is a history of repeated evils and iniu. ries, all having in direct object the destrnc- ton of life. liberty, and happiness. oprove this, let facts be submitted to candid world.
 They make their votaries refractors of laws. both human and divine, the most wholesome for the public good, and our in- dividual happiness. a4
 They have called together large bodies of our citizens at places illegal. uncomfortable and d stant from their homes, their friends, and their families, and distant from all those who should be the object of their affections, for the sole purpose of decoying them into innumerable and inextricable difficulties and dangers.
 They have dissolved and divided families -diseased and destroyed hundreds of the best of our fellow citizens, and consigned 10 obscurity and disgrace, as many more prostrated the fairest and brightest orna- ments of society-converted the father into tiend-the cool and calalating man into a murderer-the asylum of love and happiness, into the abode of discord and misery.
 Their pestilcntial influence has been felt in private and in public, in the church and in the state, by causing drunkenness, blood shed and heresies. thereby exposing us to the dangers of the loss of reputation abroad. and our comfort and peace at home.
 They have endeavored to depopulate our country. by poisoning the people.
 They have made a multitude of beggars, maniacs, and murderers among us, and brought upon us innumerable diseases, to kill our people. and break up society. They have kept among us standing armies of sols and tipplers, to the great annoyance of our peaceable citizens.
 The have endeayored to subject us to drinks destructive to our. constitution. Their use has inundated our country with large supplies offoreign manufactures tocom plete the works of death, desolation and mise-