The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1850-07-05


hands.
He has excited domestic insnrrection
among Us; and has cndeavored 10 bring
90 the inhabitants Of our frontiers the
mereluss Indian ssvages, whose known
rule If warfare is an undisiinguished dc
struclion Of all ages, sexes. and eondi-
tions.
In every stage If these Impressions we
have petilioned fr redress 10 the most
humble terms: our repeated petitions
have been ANSWERED. only by repealed in
jury.
A prince. whose character is thus
marked by every act which may define
tyrant. is unfit TO be the ruler of foe
people.
Nor have we been wanting in a,ten.
tions 10 odr British brethren. We have
warned them, from time to time, Of at.
templs by their legislature to extend an
uDwarrantabIe jurisdiction over US. We
have reminded them of the circumstances
Of our emigration and settlement here.
We have appealed to their native justice
and magnanimity. aud we have copjured
them by the ties of our common kindred
to disavow these usurpati0ns, which
would inevitably interrupt our conuec.
tions aud correspondence. They. TOO.
have been deaf To the voice of justice and
cnnsauguinity. We must therefore. &C
quesce in the necessity which denounces
our separation, and hold them, as we hold
the rest of mankind d-enemies in war, 10
peace, friends.
We, therefore, the representatives IF
the United States of America, in general
Congress assembled. appealing 10 the
Supreme Judge of the world for the rec.
titude Of our intentions, do, in the name
and by the authority of the good people
of these colonies, solemnly publish and
declare. that these united colonies are.
and of right ought 10 be free and indie.
pendent states; that they are absulvej
froth all allegiance 10 the British crown,
and that sll political connection between
them aud the state Of Great Britain is.
ard ought to be, totally dissolVedI and
that as free and independent states, they
have full power to levy war, conclude
peace, contract alliances, establish com
nierce; aud do all other acts and things
which independent states may of right
do. And for the SUPPORT ofIHis declara.
tioh. with firm reliance ON the pro,ec-
li0n of Divine Providence, we mutually
pledge TO each other our lives, our for
tunes, and our sacred honor.
JOHN HANCOCK,
President Of Congress and
Delegate from MaSsachusetfs.
New Hampshite.-Josiah Bartlett,
William Wipple. Matthew Thornton.
Massachusetts, Bdy-Samuel Adams,
John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, El.
bridge Gerry. ....,
Rhode idaAd, sc,-s,ephen Hopkins,
William Elery.
| Connecticut Roger Sherman. Samuel
Huntington, William Williams. Oliver
Walcoit. .-.....
Ncw Yoyk.-Wiliam Floyd, Philip
Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Nor
ris.
Ne,c jersey Richard Stockton, John
Wilherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John
Hart. Abraham Clark
Penasy'rania.-Rpber; Morris. Benja.
mau Rush, Benjamin Franklin. john Nor
ton. George Clymer, james Smith, Geo
Taylor, James Wilson. George Ross.
Delaware Caesar Rodney. George
Read. Thomas M'Kean.
Maryldad.- Samuel Chase. Wiliiun
Paca Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll, oj
CarroltoD.
Virginia. : George Wyihe, Richard
Henry Lee. Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin
Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis
Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton.
North Ca Olina, William Hooper, Jd
seph Hews, John Penn.
South Carolina = Edward Rut;ledge
Thomas Hayward, Jr., Thomas Lynch
Jr.. Arthur Middleton.
Georgia Button Gwinett, Lymat
Hail, George Walton.
Attest.-CHARLEs THOMPSON, Sec'y.