Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1852-07-01

Por protecting lnem Oy a moe
trial, from Punishment for any mu
ders which they should commit on II
inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our trade with a
parts OF the world:
For imposing taxes on US withou
our consent:
For depriving US, in many casel
Of the benefits OF trial by Jury:
For transporting US beyond sea
TO be tried for pretended offences:
! For aboIishiSg the free system c
English laws in a neighborin,
province, establishing therein al
arbitrary government, and enlarginl
its boundaries. so as TO render it a
once an example and fiji instrumen
for introducing the same absolute
rule into these colonies:
For taking away our charters
abolishing our most valuable laws
and altering, fundamentally, tht
forms Of our governments:
For suspending our own legisla
ture, and declaring themselves in.
vested with power TO legislate for u:
in all cases whatever:
He has abdicated government here
by declaring US out of his protection
and waging war against US.
He has plundered our seas, raw
aged our coasts, burnt our towns
and destroyed the lives OF our PeO-
pie.
He is at this time transporting
large armies of foreign mercenarieS
to complete the works OF DEATH
desolation and tyranny, already be-
gun with circumstances of cruelty
and perfdy, scarcely paralleled in
the most barbaTous ages, and totally
unworthy the head Of a civilized
nation.
He has constrained our fellow
citizens, taken captive on the high
seas, TO bear arms against their coun-
try, to become the executioners OF
their friends and brethren, or to fall
themselves by their hands.
He has excited domestic inSurrec-
tions amongst US, and has endeavOred
to bring on the inhabitants Of our
frontiers the merciess Indian sava-
ges, whose known rule of warfare
is an undistinguished destruction of
all ages, sexes and conditions.
7. IN every stage. Of these opp:es-
sions we have pcIi,ioned for redress
in the most humble terms: our re-
peated petitions have been answered
only by repeated injury. A prince
whose character is thus marked by
every act which may define tyrant,
is unfit TO be the ruler Of free peo-
pie.
Nor have we been wanting in al
ten;ion to our British brethren. We
have warned thsm, from time TO
time, of attempts by their legislature
10 extend an unwarrantable jurisdic-
ton over US. We have reminded
them of the circumstances OF our
emigration and settlement here
We have appealed to their native
justice and magnanimity, and we
have conjured them by the ties OF
our common kindred to disavow
these usurpations, which would
inevitably interrupt our connexions
and correspondence. They too have
been deaf 10 the voice Of justice and
consanguinity. We must, therefore,
acquiesce in the necessity which de-
nounces our separation, and hold
them, as we hold the rest of man.
kind-enemies in war, in peace
friends.
We, therefore, the representatives
of the United States Of America, in
General Congress assembled, appeal
ing to the Supreme Judge Of the
World, for the rectitude OF our in
lentions, do, in the name, and by the
of the good people OF these
solemnly publish and de-
clare, that the United Colonies are,
md of right ought to be, FREE AND
STATES; that they are
from all allegiance TO the
British crown; that all political cons
lexion between them and the State
If Great Britain is and ought TO be
otaIly dissolved, and that, as free
md independent States, they have
ull power to levy war, conclude
peace, contract alliances, establish
and to do all other acts
md things which independent States
nay of right do. And, for the
of this Declaration, with
irm reliance on the protection Of
DIVINE Providence, we mutually
pledge TO each other our lives, ou:
ortunes, and our sacred honor.
JOHN HANCOCK, President.
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