American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-07-04
A Declaration.

WHEN, in the course of human events, it
becomes necessary for one people to dissolve
The political bands which have connected them
with another, and to assume, among the pow
ers of the earth, the separate and equal sta
ton TO which the laws OF nature and of ma
ture's God enitIe them, decent respect to
the opinions of mankind requires that they
should declare the cause which impel them
10 the separation.
We hold these truths to be selr.evident-
that all men are created equal, that they are
endowed by their Creator with certain un-
alienable rights; that among these are life, lib.
erty, and the pursuit Of happiness That to
secure these rights, governments are instituted
among men, deriving their just lowers from
me consent OF the governed; and that when
ever any form of government becomes de.
structive of these ends, ii is the right of the
people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a
new government, laying is foundations on
such principles, and organizing its powers in
such form, as to them shall seem most likely
10 effect their safety and happiness, Prudence
indeed, will dictate, that governments long
established should not be changed for light
and transient causes and accordingly all ex :
perience 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 usurpations,
pursuing invariably the same object, evinces
a design TO reduce them under absolute des-
potism, it is their right, it IL their duty tc
throw Oft such government, and to provide
new guards for their future security. Such
has been the patient suferance Of these colo
Mes and such is now the necessity which con-
strains them TO alter their former systems Of
government. The history of the present king
of Great Britain is history of repeated in
iuries and usurpations, all having in direct OBJ
ject the establis hment of an absolute tyranny
over these States. To prove this, let facts be
submitted TO candid world.
He has refused his assent TO laws the most
wholesome and necessary to the public good.
He has forbidden his governors TO pass laws
Of immediate and pressing Importance, unless
suspended in their operations, till his assent
shall be obtained; and When so suspended, he
has utterly neglected to attend to them. He
has refused to pass other laws for the accom-
mediation Of large districts of people, unless
those people would relinguish the right of rep.
resenta ion in the legislature-a right inesti-
mable 10 them and formidable to tyrants only
He has called together leg- atlve bodies al
places unusual uncomfortable and di. tant from
The repository of their public records, for the
sole purpose of fatguing them into compll'
ance with his measures.
He has dissolved representative houses re-
peatedly, for opposing with manly firmness,his
invasions on the rights of the people.
He has. refused, for long time after such
dissolutions, to cause others to be elected
whereby the legislative powers, incapable Of
annlhilation, have returned to the people at
large, for their exercise; the State remaining
in, the mean time exposed to all the danger:
Of invasion from without and convulson:
within.
He has endeavcred to prevent the popua
ton of these States; for that purpose obstIuct
ing the laws of naturalization of foreigners
refusing to pass others to encourage their mi
grafton thither, and raising the conditions o.
new appropriations of lands.