The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-07-03

piness That 10 secure these rights governments
instituted among men, deriving their just powers
from the consent Of the governed; that whenever
any form Of government becomes destructive of
these ends it is the right Of the people to alter to
abolish il, and to institute new government, laying
its foundation on such principles, and organizing its
powers in such form, TO them shall seem most
likely to effect their safety and happiness. Pru-
dence, indeed, will dictate, that governments long
established should not be changed for light and
transient causes; and accordingly, all experience,
has shown that mankind are more disposed 10 sui.
fer, while evils saherable, than TO right them
selves by aboshing the forms TO which they
accustomed But when long train OF abuses and
usurpauons, pursuing invariably the sans object,
evlnces design to reduce them under absolute des-
Potsm, II Is their right il is their duty, to throw off
such government, and to provide new guards for :
their future security, Such has been the patient
suiiernce OF these colonies; and such is now the
necessity which constants them TO alter their former
systems Of government. The history Of the pre- :.
sent king Of Great Britain is history Of repeated
injuries and usurpatlons, all having in direct obec.
the establishment 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 whole
some and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his governors TO pass laws Of
immediate and pressing importance, unless suspend
ed in their operation till his should be obtain
ed 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 I,
people would renquish the right Of representation =
IN me leglsature-a right inestimable to them, and
formidable to tyrants only.
lie has called together legislative bodies at places
unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the de-
postory Of their public records, for the sole pur
pose of fahgulng them into compliance with hi.
measures.
He has dissolved representative houses, repeated
ly, for opposing with manly frmness his nvasions
on the rights of the people.
He has refused for long time after such disso-
lutons, TO cause others to be elected; whereby the
legislative powers, incapable of annhilatioD have
returned to the people al large, for their exercise
the State remaining, In the mean time exposed to all
the dangers OF invasion from without, and conyu-
sons within.
lie has endeavored to prevent the population of
these States; for that purpose obstructng the laws
for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass
others 10 encourage their migrations hither and
raising the conditions of new appropriations Of
| lands
He has obstructed the administration of Justice
by refusing his assent to laws for establishing Judi
ciary powers.
He has made judges dependent on his will alone
for the tenure Of their offices, and the amount and
payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude Of new Offices, and
sent hther swarms Of officers to harass our people
and eat out their substance.
He has kept among US, in time of peace STANDING
armies, without the consent Of our legislatures
he has affected to render the military independent
OF, and superior to- the civil power
he has combined with others to subject us TO
jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and unac-
knowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their
acts Of pretended legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among
us:
For protecting them, by mock trial, from pun
ishment Tor any murders which they should comml,
on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our trade with all parts of Thea
world:
-for imposing taxes on US without our consent
FOR deprivlng US, in many cases, of the benefits
| OF trial 10y jury:
For transporting us beyond seas, to be tried for
pretended offences:
For abolishng the free system Of English laws in
nelghborlng province, establishing therein an ar
bitrary government and charging its boundaries 80
as to render 1t at once an example and fit instrumen.
Tor introducing the same absolute rule into these
colonies:
For taking away our charters, abolishing our
most valuable laws and altering Fundamentally the
forms OF our governments
For susPending our own legislatures and decar-
ing themselves invested with power to egislate for
US in all cases whatsoever.
lie has abdicated government here by declaring
us out of his protection and waging war aennst ,,s
lie has plundered our seas rayaged our coasts
burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our
people.
He IS at this time Transporting large armies of for
eign mercenaries to complete the works of death,
a a ana tyranny, already begun, with cir
cumstances OF cruelty and perfdy scarcely parallel
ed IN the most barbarous ages and totally nworthv
the head of a civilized nation.
he mas constrained our fellow citizens. taken
captive on the high SEAS to bear arms against their
country, to become the executioners of their
irlends and BRETHREN or to fall themselves by their
ne mas excited domestic instructions among U.S.
and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants Of
our lrohuers the mercess Indian savages whose
hhoWn RUE OF warfare is undistingushed de-
s'ructlon OF all ages, sexes, and conditions
In every stage Of these expressions, we have pc
titioned for redress in the most humble terms: our
repeated petitions have been answered onlv by re-
peatea injury. A prince whose character is thus
marked by every act which may define tyrant, is
unht to be the ruler of a free people
No, nave we been wanting in attention to our
nriush brethren. We have warned them from
time to time, of attempts by their legsa,nre 10 ex
.eha an unwarrantable jurisdiction over u.s. We
nave reminded them of the circumstances of our
emigration and settlement here. We have appealed
10 uhelr nauVe justice and magnanmity and we
have conjured them, by the ties of our common
kindred, to disavow these usurpations which would
'heVltaoiy interrupt our connexions and correspon-
oehce. Ihey, too, have been deaf to the voice of
justice ana consaDguihity. We must therefore, &C.
qulesce IN the necessity which denounces our sepa.
ration and hold them, we hold the rest of man
kin ma, in WARM peace friends.
we, therefore, the representatives of the United
States Of America, IN general Congress assembled,
Appearing 70 the SUPREME JuDeE Of the world for
the recutnde OF our intentions do in the name and
by the authority of the good people Of these colo
mes soemnly publish and declare that these United
Colonies are and of right ought to be, free and in
dependent states; that they are absolved from all
connexion between them and the state of Great Rr.
am 49, and ought to be, totally dissolved; and that
as free and independent States they have full power
70 levy war; conclude peace contract alliances es
. aonsh commerce, and to do all other acts and
things which independent States may of riebt do
And Tor the support of this declaration, win firm
reliance on the protection of DIVINE Psoympnrr
we mutually pledge to each other our lives our for