Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1855-07-04
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Declaration Of Independence.


separate and equal station to which the
laws of nature and of natures God entl-
tie them, a decent respect to the opinions
of mankind requires that they should de-
clare the causes which impel them to the
separation.
i We hold these truths to be selfevident,
that all men are created equal; that they
are endowed by their Creator with GER
| tain unalienable rights; that among these
are life, liberty, and the pursuit Of happi-
ness. That, to secure these rights, gov
ernments are instituted among men, 9eri-
wing their just powers from the consent of
the governed; and that, whenever any
form of government becomes destructive
of these ends, it is the right Of the people
to alter or abolish it, and to institute new
government laying its foundations on such
principles, and organizing its powers in
such form, as to them shall seem most like
| ly to effect their safety and happiness
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that gov
ernments, long established, should not be
changed for light and transient causes; 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
long train of abuses and usurpations,
pursuing invariably the same object, evin-
ces design to reduce them under absolute
despotism, it is their right, it is their duty,
to throw off such government, and to pro-
vide new guards for their future security.
Such has been the patient suferance of the
colonies, and such is now the necessity
which constrains them to alter their for
mer systems of government. The history
of the present king of Great Britain is a
history of repeated injuries and usurpa-
tions, all having, in direct object, the es-
tablishment of an absolute tyranny over
these states. To prove this, let facts be
submitted to candid world e...lf
| Hehas refused his assent to laws the most
| wholesome and necessary for the public
good.
lie has forbidden his governors to pass
laws OF immediate and pressing import
ance, unless suspended in their operations
till his assent should be obtained; and.
when so suspended, he has utterly neg
lected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other laws for
the accommodation of large districts of
people, unless those people would relin-
quish the right of representation in the
legislature; right inestimable to them,
and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies
at places unusual, uncomfortable, and dis
tant from the repository of their public
records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing
them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved representative houses
repeatedly, for opposing with manly firm
ness, his inyasions 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 humiliation, have returned
to the people at large for their exercise;
the state remaining, in the mean time, ex-
posed to all the dangers of invasion from
without, and commissions within.
He has endeavored to prevent the pop
ulation of these states; for that purpose,
obstructing the laws Of naturalization of
foreigners, refusing to pass others to en-
courage their migration thither, and rails
ing the conditions of new appropriations
of lands.
lie has INSTRUCTED the administration
Of justice, by refusing his assent to laws
for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his
will alone, for the tenure of their offices,
and the amount and payment of their sal
aries. as
He has erected multitude of new off
ces, and sent hither swarms of officers to
harass our people, and eat out their SUBJ
stance.
He has kept among US in time of peace,
standing armies, without the consent of
our legislatures.
He has affected to render the military
independent of, and superior to, the civil
power. e* ts'.-
lie has combined with others, to SUBJ
ject us to jurisdiction foreign to our con-
stitution, and unacknowledged by our
laws; giving his assent to their acts Of
pretended legislation.
For quartering large bodies Of armed
troops among US.
For protecting them, by a 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
of the world.
For imposing taxes on us without our
consent.
For depriving us, in many cases, of the
benefit of trial by jury.
For Transporting us beyond seas to be
tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free system of En-
glish laws in a neighboring province, es-
tablishing therein an arbitrary govern
ment, and enlarging its boundaries SO as
to render it at once an example and fit in
strument for introducing the same abso-
Lutte rule into these colonies:
For taking away our charters, abolish
ing our most valuable laws, and altering
fundamentally, the forms of our govern,
ments:
For suspending our own legislatures
and declaring themselves invested with
power to legislate for us in all cases what
soever.
He has abdicated government here bv
declaring us out Of his protection. and wa
ging war against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our
coasts, burnt our towns, and DESTROYED