Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1852-07-01
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
Juiy 4th, 1556.
THE UNANIMOUS DECLARATION OF THE
THIRTEEN UNITED STATES OF AMER

! ICA.
WHEN, in the course of humar
events, it becomes necessary for one
people TO dissolve 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 natures God entitIe
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
evident;-that all men are created
equal; that they are endowed by
their Creator with certain unaliena-
bic rights. that among these are life,
liberty, and the pursuits of happiness.
That TO secure these rights, govern
ments are instituted among men,
deriving their just powers from the
consent Of the governed; that when
ever any form of government be-
comes destructive of these ends, il is
the right of the people TO alter or to
abolish it, and to institute a new
government, laying its foundation on
such principles, and organizing its
powers in such form as to them seem
most likely to effect their safety and
happiness. Prudence, indeed, will
dictate, that governments long estab-
lished should not be changed for
light and transient causes; and ac-
cordingly all experience hath shown
that mankind are more disposed TO
suffer, while evils are suherable, than
TO right themselves, by abolishing
the forms to which they are ac-
cus.omed. But when a long train
of abuses and usurpations pursuing
invariably the same object, evinces
design 10 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
future security. Such has been the
patient suferance OF these colonies,
and such is now the necessity which
constrains them 10 alter their former
systems of Government. The histo-
ry of the present King Of Great
Britain is a history OF repeated in
juries and usurpations, oil having in
direct object the establishment OF an
absolute tyranny over these States.
To prove this, lie: facts be submitted
TO a 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
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 those people
would relinquish the right of repre-
sentation in the Legislature-a right
to them, and formidable
to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative
bodies, at places unusual, uncomforta-
Bile, and distant from The repository
Of their public records, for the sole
purpose Of fatiguing them into CON-
pliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative
Houses repeatedly, tor opposing,
with manly frmness, his invasion
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 an
have returned TO the peo-
pie at large for their exercise, the
State remaining, in the meantime,
exposed TO all the dangers of invasion
and convuIsions within.
He has endeavored to prevent the
population of these States; for that
purpose obstructing the laws OF
of foreigners; refusing
10 pass others TO encourage their
migration hither, and raising the
of new appropriation of
ands.
He has obstructed the administra-
ion Of justice, by refusing his assent
10 laws for establishing judiciary
powers.
He has made judges dependent on
MS will alone for the tenure of their
offices, and the amount and the pays
nent OF their salaries.
Pe has erected a multitude OF
new offices, and sent hither swarms
of officers, TO harrass our people,
md eat their substance.
He has kept among US, in times Of
peace, standing armies, without the
Of our Legislatures. Il
He has affected to render the
Independent Of, and superior !
10, the civil power.
He has combined with others TO
subject US TO a Jurisdiction foreign TO