Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-07-04

American inuerenuence, we cannot present our
readers with a better record of: the hallowed
associations ofthe day. or a better incentive TO
noble and patriotic resolves than the
Declaration of Independence.
july 4TH, 1776.
a Declaration of tie Representatives. of the United
States Of america in Congress assembled.
Whenin the course of human events. il becomes
necessary for one people to dissolve the political
bands which have connected them with another,
fandsto assume, among the powers of the earth,
the separate and equal station to which the laws of
nature and natures God entitle them, decent
respect TO the opinions of mankind requires that
they should declare the causes which impel them
to the separation. sF. ~ }s5s
We hold these truths to be self evident:-that
all men are created equal; that they are endowed
by their Creator with certain unaenable rights;
that among these life, liberty. and the pursuit
oil happiness, thatto secure these rights, govern
ments are instituted among men, deriving their
lust powers from the consent of the governed; that
whenever any form of government becomes de-
sructiye of these ends, it is the right of the peo
pie to alter or abolish it. and to institute new
government, laying its foundation on such princi-
pies, and organizing 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 shonld not be
changed for light and transient causes; and accord
lngly all experience hath shown, that mankind are
than to right themselves by abolishing the forms
to which they.are accustomed. But when a long
train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing inyari-f
ably the same object, seyinces adesign to reduce
them under absolute deSpoisn, 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 su erance of these colonies;
anu such is now the necessity which constrains
them to alter their former systems 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
absolute tyranny over these stats. To PROVE
this, let facts be submitted to candid word.
He has refused his assent to laws the most
wholesome and necessary for the public good. sl
He has forbidden his governors TO pass laws of
Immediate aud pressing importance, unless sus-
pended III their operation, till his assent should
be obtained; and when so suspended, he has ut
terly neglected TO attend to them. He has refused
to pass other laws for the accommodation of large
districts OF people, unless these neople would re-
lnquish the right of representation in the legsla-
ture; right inestimabe to them, and formida BILE
TO tyrants only. sts sA-sl4 So
He has called together legislative bodies at
places unusual, uncomfortable. and distant from
the depository of their public records, for the sole
purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with
his measures. TEE
He has dissolved representative houses repeat
eddy, for opposing, with manly firmness, his inva-
sons on the rights of the people.
he has refused, for long time after such dis
solutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby
the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation
have returned to the people at large, for their
efcise; the state remaining, in the mean time,
exposed to all the dangers invasion from without
and commissions within.
He has endeavored to prevent the population OF
these States; for that purpose obstructng the laws
tor naturalization OF foreigners; refusing TO pass
others 10 encouIageFtheir migrations hither, and
raising The conditions of new appropriations of
lands. '' -'.'5 q
He has obstructed the administration of justice,
byreiusing his asseat to laws for establishing iu-
dietary powers.
He has made judges dependent on his will
clone, for the tenure of their offices, and the a.
mount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected multitude of new officers, and
sent hither swarns of officers to harass people,
and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, stand
ing armies, without the consent of our legisa-
lures.
He has affected to render the military indepen-
dent OF, and superior to, the civil power.
He has combined with others 10 subject us 10 a
jurisdiction foreign to constitution, and unac-
knowledged by cur laws; giving his assent to their
acts of pretended legislation:
For qua1tering large bodies of armed troops
among us
For protecting them, by mock trial, flom pun
lshmenttor any murders which they should COM
mil on the Inhabitants of these states:
For cutting off our trade with all parts ofthe
world:
For imposing taxes on us without our consent:
For depriylng us, III many cases, of the benefits
OF trial by jury:
For Transporting us beyond the seas 10 be tried
for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free system of English laws
IN ne:ghboring province, establishing therein
arbitrary government, and charging its bounda-
Ies, SO as 10 render it at once an example and fit
instrument for introducing the same ABSOLUTE rule
into these colonies:
Forltaking away our charters, abolishing our
most valuable laws, and altering, fundamentally,
the forms of our governments:
for snspendlng our own legislatures, and de-
clarlng themselves invested with power TO legis-
late for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated goyernmentheIe. by declaring
US out OF his projections, and waging war against
us. 7se-7
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts,
burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our
people.
He is at this time transporting large armies of
foreign mercenaries to- complete the works of
death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun,
with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy, scarce
ly paralieed in the most barbarous ages and total
" unworthy the head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow citizens, taken
captive on the high. seas, TO bear arms against
their country, to become the eXecutioner3 of their
friends and Lrethren, 10 fall themselves by their
hands.
He has excited domestic Instructions amongst
us, and has en- Favored TO bring on the inhabi-
tants OF our frontiers the needless Indian savages
whose known rule ofwarfare is an unuistingush-
ed destruction of all ages, sexes, and conditions
In every stage ofthese expressions have Pc
ttioned for redress in the most humble terms: our
repeated petitions have been answered only by
repeated injury. A prince, whose character is
thus marked by every act which may define a ty.
rant, is unfit TO be the ruler of free people. y
Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our
British brethren. We have warned them, frpm
time to time, of attempts by their legislature to
extend an unwarrantab!e jurisdiction over us -.
We have reminded them of the circumstances of
our emigration and settlement here. we have
appealed to their native justice and maguanimity,
and we have coniured them by the ties of our
common kindred 10 disayow these usurpatons,
which would inevitably interrupt our connections
and correspondence. They.too have been dea f to
the voice of justice and of consangunity. We.
denounces Our separation, and hold them, as we
hold the rest of mankind-enemes in war in
peace friends. u