The Ohio Democrat and Dover advertiser. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1839-1840, 1840-07-03
DRrlarattom Of kunRpsmpRnre,
BY THE THIRTEEN UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA,
IN CONGRESS- ASSEMBLED.
July 4, l776.

vents, il becomes necessary for one peo.
pie to dissolve the political bands which
have connected them with another, and
to assume among the powers oflhe earth
the separate and equal station to which
the laws of nature and natures God en-
title ihem, decent respect to the opin-
ions OF mankind requires tina, they
should declare the causes which impel
them to the separation.
"We hold these truths 10 be selfevl.
dent t:-that all men are created equal
that they we're endowed by the Creator
with sertain inalienable rights that a.
mongs. these are life, liberty, and the
pursuit Of happiness. That 10 secure
these rights, governments are instituted
among men, deriving their just powers
from the consent ofthe governed; that
whenever any form ofgovernment be-
comes destructive of these ends, il is
the right Of the people to, alter or to a.
bolish it, and to institute Inev govern
ment, laying its foundation on such prin
ciples, and organizing its powers in such
form, as 10 them shall seem most like
ly to effect their safety and happiness.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that gov
ernmenls long established should not be
changed for light and transient causes;
and accordingly, all experience hath
shown, that mankind are more disposed
to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than
to right themselves by abolishiDg the
forms 10 which they are accustomed.
Blu. when long train Of abuses and u
surpatlons, pursuing invariably the same
object, evinces design to reduce them
under absolute despotism, it is their
right, it is their duty, to throw off such
government, and to provide new guards
for their future security. Such has been
the patient sufferance of these colonies,
and such is now the necessity which
constrains them 10 alter their former
systems Of government.
"The history Of the present king Of
Great Britain is history of repeated
injuries and usurpations, all having in
direct object the establishment of an
absolute tyranny over these staies. To
prove this, let facts be submitted TO a
CANDID world.
| He has refused his assent to lave
the most wholesome and necessary for
the public good.
HE has forbidden his governors to
pass laws Of immediate and pressing
importance, unless suspended in their
operation till his assent should be OBJ
tanned; and when 80 suspended, no has
utterly neglected TO attend to them.
lie has refused TO pass other laws
for the accommodation oflarge districts
Of people, unless those people would
relinquish the right of representation 10
the legislature, right inestimaSle Ia
them, and formidable to tyran,s only.
He has called together Legislative
bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable,
and distan, from the depository Of theil
public records, for the sole purpose o.
fatiguing them into compliance with his
measures.
He has dissolved representative bou
ses repeatedly for opposing, with man.
ly frmness, his lnvasions on the rights
I Of the people.
HE has refused, for long time, az
ter such dissolutions, to cause others tc
: be elected; whereby the legislative pow
: ers, incapable Of aunihllatlon,h n,have res
= turned to the psople at large, tor thei
1 exercise; the state remaining, in th'
: meantime, exposed to all the dangers o
, invasion from without and convulsionl
) within.
lie mas endeavored 10 prevent the
population Of these states; for that pur'
pose obstructing the laws for naturaliza,
iion Of foreigners; refusing 10 pass o.
theirs to encourage their migrations hi,t
: er, and raising the conditions Of new
r appropriations of lands.
He has obstructed the administrator
: ofjustice, by refusing his assent 10 lawl
: for establishing judiciary powers.
. He has made judges dependent on
his will alone for the tenure of their Of!
fees, and the amount and payment o
their salaries.
He has erected multitude Of new
n Offices, and sent hlther swarms Of off.
$ GERS to harrass our people, and eat ou
. their substance. &
, He has kept among US, in times o
= peace, standing armies, without th,
5 consent Of our legislatures.
o HE has affected to render the militia
: ry independent Of, and superior to, tn,
~ y civil power.
i He has combined with others TO su
n ject US TO a jurisdiction foreign 10 ou
Of constitution and unacknoWledged by on
IS lave, giving his assent to their acts q
"a pretended legislation.