The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1847-07-02
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
In CONGRESS JULY A, 1776.

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
IN CONGRESS JULY A, l776.
THE UNANIMOUS DECLARATION OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
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 as
sumo, among the powers of the earth, the
separate and equal station 20 which the
laws of nature and of natures God emit
tie them, a decent respect to the opin-
ions of mankind requires that they should
declare the causes which impel them to
the separation.
We hold these truths to be self.evi-
dent: that all men are created equal, that
they are endowed by their Creator with
certain unalienable rights; that among
these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness. That to secure these rights,
governments are instituted among men,
deriving their just powers from the con-
sent ofthe governed; that whenever any
form of government becomes destructive
of these ends, it is the right Of the people
to alter or abolish it, and to institute q new
government, laying its foundation on such
principles, and organizing its powers in
such form, as to them shall seem most
likely to effect their safety and happiness.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate, that gov
ernments 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 abolishing the
forms to which they are accustomed. But
when q long train of abuses and usurpa-
tons, pursuing invariably the same object
%evinces a 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 flu
ture security. Such has been the patient
sufferance of these colonies; and such is
now the necessity which constrains them
to alter their former systems of govern.
ment. The history of the present king
Of Great Britain is a history of repeated
injuries and usurpations, all having in di.
rect object the establishment of an abso.
Lutte tyranny over these states. To prove
this, let the facts be submitted to a can
did world.
He has refused his assent to laws the
most wholesome and necessary for the
public good.
He has forbidden his governors to pass
laws of immediate and pressing impor
lance, unless suspended in their opera
ton, till his assent should be obtained
and when so suspended, he has utterly
neglected to attend to them. He has re
fused to pass other laws for the accom-
mediation of large districts of people, un
less those people would %relinquish thu
right of representation in the Legislature
a right inestimable to them, and formid
able to tyrants only.
He has called together Legislative bod
les at places unusual, uncomfortable, AM
distant from the depository of their pub
lie records, for the sole purpose of fatigu
ing them into compliance with his meas
ures.
He has dissolved representative house
repeatedly, for opposing, with mani
frmness, his invasions on the rights q
the people.
He has refused, for a long time afte
such dissolutions, to cause others to b
elected; whereby the legislative powers
incapable of humiliation, have returne
to the people at large, for their exercise
the Stae remaining in the meantime, e,
posed to all the dangers ofinvasion frol
without, and commissions within.
He has endeavored to prevent tn
population of these states; for that pu
pose o~bstructing the laws for naturaliz;
ton of foreigners, refusing to pass othel
to encourage their migration hither, an
raising the condition of new appropri'
tions of lands.
He has INSTRUCTED the administratic
ofjusticO by his refusing his assent.
laws for establishing judiciary powers.
Hehas made judges dependent on h
will alone, for the tenure of their office
and..the amount and payment of their So
aries.
He has erected a multitude of new {
fees, and sent hither swarms of officer
to harass our people, and eat out the
substance.
He has kept among US in times of pea
standing armies, without the consent
our legislatures.
He has affected te render the militia
Independent Of, and superior to, the civ
power.
He has combined with others to su