The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1855-06-30

ourodrlous agesI ana totally unworthy IN
head of q civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow citizens
taken captive on the high seas, to bear arm
against their country, to become the execu
TONERS Of their friends and brethren, or t
fall themselves by their hands.
He has excited domestic insurrection
amc ngst US, and has endeavored to bring OF
the inhabitants of our frontiers the merci
less Indian savages, whose known rule o
warfare is an undistinghished destruction o
all ages, sexes, and conditions.
In every stage of these expressions W.
have petitioned for redress in the most hum
BILE terms. Our repeated petitions have beer
answered only by repeated injury. A prince
whose character is thus marked by every &C
which may define a tyraht, is unfit to be thu
ruler of free people:
Nor have we been wanting in attentions
to our British brethren. We have warned
them, from time to time, of attempts by thei
legislature to extend an unwarrantable juris
dicton over us. We have reminded then
OF the circumstances of our emigration ant
settlement here. We have appealed to theil
native justice and magnanimity, and we have
eonjured them by the ties of our common
kindred to disavow these usurpations, which
would inevitably interrupt our come ctions
and correspondence. They too have beer
deaf to the voice of Justice and of consan.
guinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in
the necessity which denounces our separa.
ton, and hold them, as we hold the rest ot
mankind--enerhies in war, in peace friends
We, therefore, the representatives of the
United States Of America, in general con-
gress assembled, appealing to the Supreme
Judge of the world, for the recttude of our
intentions, do, in the name and by the au-
thority of the good people of these colonies,
solemnly publish and declare, that these uni
ted colonies are, and of right ought 10 be,
free and independent states; that they are
absolved from all allegiance to the British
crown, and that all political connexion be-
tween them and the State of Great Britain
is, and ought to be, totally dissolved; and
that, as free and independent states, they
have full power to levy war, conclude peace,
contract alliances, establish commerce, and
to do all other acts and things which inde-
pendent states may Of right do. And for
the support of this declaration, with firm
reliance OH the protection of Divine Provi-
dence, we mutually pledge to each other our
lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.
John ADAMS, Massachusetts,.
SAMUEL ADAMS, Massachusetts.
JOSIAH BARTLETT, New Hampshire.
CARTER BRAXTON, Virginia.
CHAS. CARROLL, Maryland.
SAMUEL CHASE, Maryland.
ABRAHAM CLARK, New Jersey.
GEORGE CLYMER. Pennsylvania.
WILLIAM ELLERY, Rhode Island.
WILLIAM FLOYD, New York.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Pennsylvania.
ELBRIDGE GERRY, Massachusetts.
BUTTON GW1NNET, Georgia.
LYMAN HALL, Georgia.
JOHN HANCOCK Massachusetts,.
BENJAMIN HARRISON, Harrison.
JOHN HART, New Jersey.
THOMAS HAYWARD Jr., s. Carolina
JOSEPH HEWES, North Carolina.
WILLIAM HOOPER, North Carolina.
STEPHEN HOPKINS, Rhode Island.
FRANCIS HOPKINSON, New Jersey.
SAM'L HUNTINGTON, Connecticut.
THOMAS JEFFERSON, Virginia.
FRANCIS LIGHTFOOT LEE, Vir.
RICHARD HENRY LEE, Virginia.
FRANCIS LEWIS, New York.
PHILIP LIVINGSTON, New York.
THOMAS LYNCH, Jr., South Carolina.
THOMAS M'KEAN, Delaware.
ARTHUR MIDDLETON, s. Carolina.
LEWIS, MORRIS, New York.
ROBERT NORRIS, Pennsylvania.
JOHN MORTON, Pennsylvania.
THOMAS NELSON, Jr., Virginia.
WILLIAM PACA, Maryland.
ROB'T TREAT PAINE, Massachusetts,.
JOHN PENN, North Carolina.
GEORGE REED, Delaware.
CESAR RODNEY, Delaware.
GEORGE ROSS, Pennsylvania.
BENJAMIN RUSH, M D, Pennsy Ivan ia.
EDWARD RUTLEDGE, South Carolina
ROGER SHERMAN, Connecticut.
JAMES SMITH, Pennsylvania.
RICHARD STOCKTON, New Jersey.
THOMAS STONE, Maryland.
GEORGE TAYLOR, Pennsylvania.
MATTHEW THORTON, N. Hampshire
GEORGE WALTON, Georgia.
WILLIAM WHIPPLE, N. Hampshire.
WILLIAM WILLIAMS, Connecticut.
JAMES WILSON, Pennsylvania.
JOHN WITHERSPOON, New Jersey.
OLIVER WOLCOTT, Connecticut.
GEORGE WYTHE, Virginia.
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