Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1849-06-30

w HEM III tue course OF human events
it becomes necessary for one people to dis.
solve the political bands which have con.
uected them with another, and to assume
among the powers Of the earth the separate
and equal station TO which the laws OF IA
ture and Of natures God entItle them, da.
cent respect to the opinions OF manklad
requires that they should declare The caus-
es which impel them TO tue separation.
We hold these truths to be selievldent
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 consent ofthe govern
cd shat whenever auy form Of govcrmen:
becomes destructive Of these ends, ii is the
right Of the people 10 alter or abolish it, and
10 institute a new government, laying It's
foundation on such pCiacipies, and organl-
zing its powers in such form, as to them
shall seem most likely to effect their safety
and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will
dictate, that governments long established
should not be changed for light and tran.
slent causes; and accordingly, all expert
ence has shown that mankind are more dis
posed to suffer, while evils are suffcrable,
than to right themselves by abolishing the
forms to which they are accustomed. But
when long train OF abuses and usurpati0ns,
pursuing invariably the same object, evin
ces a design to reduce them under abso-
Lutte despotism, il is their right, it is their
duty, to throw off such government, and 10
provide new guards for their future security.
Such has been the patient sgfferance of
these colonies; and such is now the neces-
sity which constrains them to alter their
former system Of government. The his
tory Of the present king Of Great Britain
is history of repeated injuries and usur,
paiions, all having in direc: object the es,
tablishmea! Of an absolute tyranny over
these States. To prove this, let facts be
submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his assent TO laws, the
most wholesome and necessary for tho pub
lie good.
He has forbidden his governors to pass
laws ofimmediate and pressing importance,
unless suspended in their operation until
his assent should be obtained and when
so suspended he has utterly neglected to
attend to them.
He has refused TO pass other laws, for
the accommodation Of large districts Of
people, unless those people would reIn-
qulsh the right of representation in the
Legislature-a right inestimable 10 them
and formidable 10 tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies,
at places unusual, uncomfortable, and dis.
tant from the depository of their public re.
cords, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them
into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved representative houses
repeatedly, for opposing with manly firm
ness his inyasions on the rights Of the peo
pie.
He has refused. for a long time after
such dissolutions, to cause others to be elect
ed; whereby the legislative powers, inca
pable of annihilation, have returned to tht
people at large, for their exercise the state
remaining, in the meantime, exposed Il
all the danger Of invasion from without
and commissions within.
He has endeayored TO prevent the pop
ulation of these States for that purpose OBJ
structing the laws for the naturalization o.
foreigners refusing te pass others 10 en-
courage their migration hither, and rails
ing the conditions of new appropriations oI
lands.
He has obstructed the administration q
justice, by refusing his assent to laws foI
establishing judiciary powers.
He has made judges dependent on hi.
will alone for the tenure of their Offices
and the amount and payment of their saIa
rles.
He has erected q multitude Of new off
ces, and sent hither swarms Of officers, to
harrass our people and eat out their sub.
stance.
lie has kept among us, in time ofpeace,
standing armies, without the consent of our
legislatures.
He has affected to render the military in
dependent Of, and superior to, the civil
power.