Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1857-07-03
DECLARATION ofINDEPENDENcE.
July 9Th, 177e.

The Unanimous DeeIarGtion Of de Thirteen ,Uai-
ted States Of AnericG IN Congress AssentLeds
When. IN the course of human events,
it becomes necessary for one people'to dis
solve the political bands which have Con-
neeted them with another, aud TO assume
among the powers of the earth the separate
and equal station to which the laws of
nature and of NATURES God entitfe them, a
decent respect to the opinions Of mankind
requires that they should declare the
causes which impel them to the separa>
ton.
We hold these truths to be self.evident;
that all men are created equals that they
are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable rights; that among these are
life. liberty. and the pursuit of happiness;
that. to secure these sights, governments
are instituted asaong men, deriving their
just powers from the consent of the gov
erned /; that, whenever any form of gov
eminent becomes destructive Of these
ends. it is right of the people to alter or
10 abolish it, and to institute new govern
meHt. laying It's foundation on such prin-
ciples, and organizing its powers in such
fora, as to them shall seem most likely to
Sfefeot their safety and happiness. Pru-
deuce. indeed. will dictate that govern.
,sraents long established should not be
W changed for light and transient causes !;
and. accordingly, all experience hath
shown that mankind are more disposed to
suffer, while evils are sutferable, than to
right themselves by abolishing the forms
to which they are accustomed. But when
q long train Of abuses and usurpations,
pursuing invariably the same object,
evinces design to reduce them under
absolute depotism, it is right, it is their
duty, to throw off such government, aud
toEprovide new guards for their future Sc
curity. Such has been :he patient suffer-
ance of these colonies. and such is now
the necessity which constraus them to al
ter their former systems Of government.
The his DRY of the present king of Great
Britain. is history of repeated injuries
and usurpations. all having in direct OBJ
lectlthe establishment of an absolute ty>
ranny over these States. TO prove this,
let facts be submitted to a candid world :
He has refused his assent to laws the
most wholesome and necessary for public
good.
He has forbidden his governors to pass
laws of immediate pressing Importance,
unless suspended in their operation till
his assent should be obtained and, when
so suspended, he has utterly neglected 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 bo-
dies at places unusual. uncomfortable,
and distant from the repository of their
public records. for the sole purpose of ia.
tiguing them into compliance with his
measures.
He has dissolved representative houses
repeatedly for opposing with manly firm
ness his invasions Of the rights of the peo-
pless
Afe has refused. for a long time after
such dissolutiuns, TO cause others to be
elected; whereby the legislative powers,
incapable Of annihi!Ation, have returned
to the people at large for their exercise
the State remaining, in the meantime, ex-
posed to all the dangers Of invasion from
without and commissions within.
He has endeavored to prevent the po-
pulation Of these SLates-for that purpose
obstructing the laws Of naturalization of
foreigners. refusing to pass others 20 en-
courge their migration hither, and raising
the conditions of new appropriations Of
lands.
He has INSTRUCTED the administration
ofjustice. 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.
He has erected multitude Of new Of
fees, and sent hither swarms of officers
to harass our people and eat out their
substance.
He has kept among US in times oil
peace. standing armies. without the con-
sent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the military
independent Of. and superior to, the civil
power.
" He has combined with others to subject
US to a jurisdiction foreign to our consti>
tuition, and unHcknowledg by our laws
giving his assent to their acts Of pretend.
cd legislation.
For quartering large bodies of armed
troops among us
For protecting them by mock trial,
from punishment for any murders which
they should commit on the inhabitants oil
these States:
For outing 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
benefits OF trial by jury;
For transpol ting us beyond seas to be
tried for pr etepded offences: