The Democratic sentinel and Harrison County farmer. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1851-1852, 1851-07-02
Declaration of Independence.

becomes necessary lot one pcopH 70 uissOiffl
the political bands which have connected
them with another, and to assume, among
the powers of the earth, the separate and
equal station to which the laws of nature
and Of natures God entitle them, decent
respect to the opinions of mankind requires
that they should declare the causes which
impel them to this separation.
We hold these truths to be self-eyident,
that all men are created equal; that they are
endowed by their Creator with certain un-
alenable rights; that among these are life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That, |
to secure these rights, governments are insti-
tuted among men, deriving their Just powers
from the consent of the governed; and 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 insti-
tute new government, laying its foundations
on such principles, and organizing itspowers
in such form, as to them will seem most
likely to effect their safety and happiness,
Prudence, indeed will dictate that govern
ments, long established, should not be chan
ged for light and transient causes; and, ac-
,cordingly, all experience hath shown, that
mankind are more disposed to suffer, while
evils are insufferable, than to right them
selves by abolishing the forms to which they
larc accustomed. But, when a long train of
abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably
the same object, evinces design to reduce
them under absolute despotism, it is their
right, it is their duty, to throw off such gov
ernment, and toproyide new guards for their
future security.
Such has been the patient suferance of
the colonies, and such is now the necessity
which constrains them to alter their former
system of government The history of the
present king of Great Britain, is history of
repeated injuries and usurpations, all having
in direct object, the establishment of an alb
solute tyranny over these States. To prove
this let facts be submittedto to candid 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 Importance,
unless suspended in their operations, till 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 these people would relinquish the
right of representation in the legislature; a
right inestimahIe to them, and formidable
to tyrants only.
He has called together Legislative bodies
! at places usual, uncomfortable, and distant
+ from the repository of their public records,
for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into
compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved representative houses re-
peatedly, for opposing with manly firmness,
his invasions on on the rights of the people.
He has refused, for a long time after such
dissolutions, to cause others to be elected ;
whereby the legislative powers, incapable of
annihilation, have returned to the people at
large for their exercise; the state remaining
in the meantime, exposed to all the dangers
of invasion from without, and conyulsions
within.
He has endeavorcd to prevent the popula-
ton of these states; for atpurpose obstruct-
ing the laws of naturalization of foreigners,
refusing to pass others TO encourage their
migration thither, and raising the conditions
of new appropriations of lands.
He has obstructed the administration OF
Justice, by refusing his assent to laws fol
Establishing judiciary powers.
4 He has made judges dependent on his
will alone, for the tenure of their Offices, aud
tue amount and payment Of their salaries.
He has erected multitude of new offices,
and sent hither swarms Of officers to harraSS
our people, and eat out our substance.
He has kept among us in time of peace
standing armies without the consent of oul
legislatures.
He has affected to render the military in,
dependent of, and subsevient to, the ciyi
power.
He has combined with others, to subec
us to a Jurisdiction foreign to our constitu
ton, and unaclnowledged by our laws; Civ
ing his assent to their act ofpretended legis
lation.
Forquarternglarge bodies ofarmed troops
among us.
For protecting them, by mock trial, trom
punishment for any murders, which they
, should commit on the inhabitants of these
States.
For cutting off our trade with all parts o
the world.
For imposing taxes on us without ou
consent.
| For depriving us, in many cases, of thu
benefit of trial by jury.
For transporting US beyond seas tobe triet
for pretended offences.
: For abolishing the free system of Englisl
:, laws in aneighboring province, establishing
: Therein an arbitrary government, and enlarg
ling its boundaries so as to render it al ono
an example and fitinstrument forintroducin!
the same absolute rule into these colonies.
S For taking away our charters, abolishin!
: our most valuable laws, and altering funda
$ mentally, the forms of our governments.
! For suspending our own legislatures, an
declaring themselves invested with power
legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated government here, by dc
J claring us out of his protection, and wagin
Z, war against us.
/ He has plundered our seas, ravaged on
coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed th
:, lives Of our people.
q He is, at this time, transporting large al
3 mics of foreign mercenaries to complete tn
/ works of death, desolaton and tyranny, a
fIready begun, with circumstances of cruelt
j and perfdy scarcely parallelled in the mo
u barbarous ages, and totally unworthy tn
IS head of civilized nation.
leI He has constrained our fellow citizens, Il
es ken captive on the high seas, to bear arm
against their country, to become the execl