Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1857-07-03

on the inhabitants of our frontiers. the
merciless Indian sayages. whose known
rule of warfare is an nndistingu de-
struction, of all ages. sexes. and condis
'tions.
In every stage Of these expressions. we
have petiticned for redress, in the most
humble terms; our repeated petitions
have been answered only by repeated in.
jury. A prince. whose character is thus
marked by every act which may define q
tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler Of a free
people.
Nor have We been wanting in attention
to our British brethren. We have warm
ed them, from time TO time, of at
tempts made by their legislature to ex-
tend an uuwarrantable Jurisdiction over
us. We have reminded them Of the cir.
cumstances of our emigration and settle
ment here. We have appealed to their
native justice and magnanimity, and we
have conjured them, by the ties of our
common kindred, to disayow these usur-
pations. which would inevitably interrupt
our connections and correspondence
They. too. have been deaf to the voice of
justice and consanguinity. We must,
therefore. acqulesce in the necessity.
which denounces our separation, and hold
them as we held the rest of mankind,
enemies in war. in peace. friends.
We, therefore, the representatives Of
the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
in GENERAL CONGRESS assembled,
appealing to the Supreme Judge Of the
World for the rectitude of our intentions,
do. in the name. and by the authority of
the good people of these colonies, solemn
ly publish and declare, That these Uni>
ted Colonies are, and of right ought to
be. FREE AND INDEPENDENT
STATES; that they are absolved from
all allegiance to the British crown. and
that all political connection between 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. con-
clude peace, contract alliances, establish
commerce, and to do all other acts and
things which INDEPENDENT STATES
may Of right do. And, for the support of
this declaration, with a firm reliance on
the protection of DIVINE PROVI.
DENCE, we mutual pledge to each 9TH
er, our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred
honor.
The foregoing declaration was, by or
der of Congress, engrossed, and signed
by the following members:
JOHN HANCOCK.
New Hampshire. Massachusetts, Bay.
Josiah Bartlett, Samuel Adams,
William Whipple, John Adams.
Matthew Thornton, Robert Treat Paine,
Elbridge Gerry.
Rhode Island. Delaware.
Stephen Hopkins. Caesar Rodney.
William EIlery. George Read.
Thomas M'Kean.
Connecticut. Maryland.
Roger Sherman, Samuel Chase,
Samuel Huntington, William Pacs,
William Williams, Thomas Stone,
Oliver Wolcott, Charles Carroll, Of
Carrollton.
NeaO York. Virginia.
William Floyd. George Wythe.
Philip Livingston, Richard Henry Lee,
Francis Lewis, Thomas Jefferson.
Lewis Morris, Benjamin Harrison.
Thomas Nelson. jr.,
Francis Lightfoos Lee.
Carter Braxton.
Neu Jersey. North Carolina.
Richard Stockton. William Hooper,
John WiLherspoon, Joseph Hewes,
Francis Hopkinson, John Penn.
John Hart,
Abraham Clark.
Pennsylvania. South Carolina.
Robert Morris. Edward RuLledge,
Benjamin Rush, Thomas Hayward, ir.
Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Lynch, jr.
John Morton, Arthur Middleton.
George Clymer.
James Smith.
George Taylor. Georgia.
James Wilson, Button Gwinnett,
George Ross. Lyman Hall,
George Walton.
I RESOLVED, That copies of the Declare
ton be sent to the several assemblies,
conventions, and committees, or councils
Of safety, and to the several commanding
officers of the continental troops that il
be proclaimed in each ofthe United States
and at the head Of the army.
The REcoNrRE WITH FUGITIVE SLAVES
AT C1Nc1NNAT1.-The papers contain the
particulars Of the ARRAY between several
of the United States deputy marshals and
two fugitive slaves a man and wife) in
that city, who had escaped from Withers
OF Covington, Ky. The Gazette says they
were found concealed in house on Vine
street, and then adds
After knocking at the door and obtain.
ing no answer. one of the posse. John @.
Elliott. climbed up and peeped through
the trsnsom, and said the slaves must be
inside, for he saw their dinner, "a mum.
Der Of dishes containing food were on q
table in the apartment.) He then crepi
partly through the aperture over the door