The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1853-07-07
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tnre an1 nature's G ID entitle them, a de-
cent respect to the opinions Of mankind re.
quires, that they should declare the causes
w~hichjmpef them to the separation. tiU.
We hold these truths to be self-evident;-
that all men are created equal; that they are
endowed bysilieir Creator with certain un-
alienable rights; that among these are life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That
to securesthese rights governments are IN
situated among men, deriving their just
powers from the consent of the governed;
that whenever any form OF government be-
comes destructive of these ends, it is the
right of the paople to alter or abolish it, or
to institute a new G J%vernment, laying its
foundation GA such principles, aud organis-
ing its powers inrsuch form as 10 them shall
seem m )st likely to effect thu r safety and
happine ss. Prudence, indeed, will dictate,
that governments long established should
not be changed for light and transient caus-
es; and accordingly all experience hath,
shown, that mankind are more disposed to
suffer, while evils are siderable, than to
right themselves, by abolishing the forms
to which they are accustomed. But when
a long train of abuses. and,usnrpations, pur-
suing Invariably the same object, eyinces q
design to reduce them under absolute des-
potism, tits their right, it is their duty, to
throw off such government, and to provide
new guards for th3ir future security. Such
has been the patient sufferance of these COLI
onies, and such is now the necessity which
constrains them to alter their former systems
Of government. The history Of thu present
King Of Great Britain is history of rcpeat-
ed injuries and usurpation :, all having in d.
rect object tie establishment Of an abso-
lutte tyranny over these States. To prove
this, let facts be su5miltedt to n candid world.
He has refused his assent to laws the
most wholesome AMI Necessary for the pub
lie good.
He has forbidden his govern IRIS to pass
laws of immediate and pressing Importance,
unless suspended in their operation, till his
assent should be obtained; and when SO sus-
pended, he has utterly neglected to tend to
them. He has refused to pass other laws
for the accommodation Of large districts OF
people, unless those people would ~relinquish
the right oil Misrepresentation in the Legislature
"a right inestimable to them, and formida-
BILE to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies
at places unusual, uncomfortable, and dis
tant from the repository Of their public re,
cords, for the sole purpose Of fatiguing them
into a com ~pliance with his measures.
He has d ssolved Representative Houses
repeatedly, for opposing, with manly firm
ness, his invasions on the rights of the peo-
pie.
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 PEG
pie atlarge for their exercise, the tate re,
naming, in the mean time, exposed to all
the dangers, of invasion from without, and
commissions within,
He has endeayored to prevent the popula.
ton of these States; for the purpose OBJ,
structiug the laws of naturalization of for.
eigaers; refusing to pass others to encour-
age their migration hither, and raising the
conditions OF new Appropriations oflands.
He has obstructei. the administration OF
Justice, by refusing bis assent to laws for es-
tablishing judiciary powers.
lie has made judges dependent on his will
alone, for the tenure Of their Offices, and the
amount and payment Of their salaries.
lie has erected q multitude Of new offices,
and sent hither sworms OF officers, to harrass
our people, and cut out their substance.
He has kept among US, in time o fpeace,
standing armies, without tho consent ofour
legislatures.
lie has affected TO render the military in
dependent Of, and superior to, the civil pow
er..
He has combined with others to subject
us to a jurisdiction foreign to our Constitu.
ton, and un~acknowledged by our laws; Civ.
ing his assent to their acts OF pretended leg
~islation; a
For quartering large bodies of armed
troops among us: W
For protecting them, by n mock trial, from
punishment for any murders which they
should commit ON the inhabitants Of these
States.
For cutting off our trade with all parts oil
the world:
For imposing taxes on us without oul
consent:
For depriving us, in many cases, Of the
benefits Of trial by jury:
For transporting us beyond seas to be
tried hr pretended offences:
For abolishing the free system Of English
laws in a neighboring province, establishing
therein an arbitrary government, and en-
larging its boundaries, SO as to render it a
once an example and fit instrument for in
Producing the same absolute rule into thest
colonies;
For taking away oar charters, abolishins
our most valuable laws, and altering, funda
mentally, the forms Of our government;
For suspehding our own legislatures, AM
declaring themselves invested with poweI
to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever
He has abdicated government here, by de
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