New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-07-04
nEcIARAT1oN OF INDEPENDENTS.
" Tr1E REpREsENTA TIyES OF THE UNITED STATES
OF AMEKICA IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED.

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
BY II 2n Esz
When, in the course Of human events, It becomes |
necessary people to dissolve the political bands
which have connected them with another and to as
sumo among the powers of the earth, the separate
and equal station to which the laws Of nature and OF
natures God entitle them, decent respect to the
opinions Of mankind requires that they should de-
clare thecauses which impel them to the separation
We hold these truths to be selfevident, that all
men are created equal; that they are endowed py
their Creator with certain unalenable rights tnat
among these life liberty, and the pursuit Of hap
piness. That, to secure these rights, governments
are instituted among men, deriving powers
from the consent fthe governed that, whenever any
form of government becomes destructive OF THESE
ends is the right of the people to altar or to abo
ish it, and to institute new government laying It's
foundation on such principles and oragnzlbg its pow
in such form, as to them shall seem most hkey 70
effect their safety and happiness Prudence, indeea
will dictate that governments 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 satierable
than to right themselves by aboshlng the forms 20
which they are accustomed. But, when long train
of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the
same object evinces a design to reduce them under
absolute despotis it is their duty to throw Oft such
government and to provide new guards Tor their fu-
ture security. Such has been the patient suferance
of these Colonies, and such is now the necessity
which constrains them to alter their former systems
of government The history of the present King OF
Great Britain is history Of repeated injuries and
usurpations all having, in direct object the estab.
lishment of an absolute tyranny over these States.
To prove this let facts be submitted to candid
| world s
He has refused his assent to laws the most whole
some and necessary for the public good
He has forbidden his governors to pass laws OF i'm
| mediate and pressing importance, unless suspended
in their operation till his assent should be obtained
and when suspended, he has utterly neglected to
| attend to them. 55
He has refused to pass other laws for the accommo
dalton of large districts Of people, unless those people
would relinquish the right Of representation in the
Legislature; right inestimable to them, and formid-
| able to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places
unusual uncomfortable and distant from the deposl
tory 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 frmness, his invasions on
| the rights OF the people
He has refused, for long time after such dissolu-
lions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the
legislative powers incapable of annhilation have re-
turned to the people at large for their exercise the
State remaining, in the mean time exposed to all the
danger of invasion from without, and commissions
within.
these States for that purpose obstructing the LAWS
1 for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass
others to encourage their migration hither and rails
ing the conditions Of new appropriations Of lands
He 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 salaries. +t
he has erected multitude of new offices and sent
hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and
eat out their substance
He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing
armies, without the consent of our Legislature.
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 Constitution and acknow
lodged by laws; giving his assent to their acts OIL
pretended legislation
For quarterng large bodies Of armed troops among
For protecting them, by mock trial. from punish
l ment, for any murders which they should commit OIL
the inhabitants of these States.
4 For cutting off trade with all parts Of the
world.
For imposing taxes on us without our consent:
For deprving us, in many cases. of the benefits o
trial by jury.
For transporting beyond seas to be tried for pre-
tended offences:
For abolishing the free system of English laws il
neighboring province, establishing tberin an arbi
trary government, and charging its boundaries s.
to render it at once example and fit instrumen
for introducing the same absolute rule into these cole
MES. =
For taking away our charters, abolishing our mos
valuable laws, and altering, fundamentally, the pow
ers of our governments
For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring
themselves invested with power to legslate for u
in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated government here, by declarin
us out of his protection, and wagng against III
f He has pundered our seas, ravaged our coasts
burnt towns and destroyed the lives OF our pee
pie.
He is at this time, transporting large armies of fol
j eign mercenaries to complete the works of death
> desolaton and tyranny already begun, with crcun
stances of cruelty and perfdy scarcely paraeled i
= the most barbarous ages and totally unworthy tn
. head of civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow-citzens, taken cay
l. tive on the high seas, to bear arms against the
country to become the executioners of their friend
and brethren or to fall themselves by their hands.
He has excited domestic instructions amongst II
and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants
our frontiers the merciless Indian savages who's
known rule of warfare is an undisnguished destrut
q ton of all ages, sexes and conditions.
y In every stage of these expressions we have pet
toned for redress in the most humble terms our IT
peated petitions have been answered only by repeate
j. injury. prince, whose character is thus marked
d every act which may define tyrant, is unfit to |
the ruler of free people.
Nor have we been wanting in attention to OIL
+ British brethren We have warned them, from time
time of attempts made by their Legislature to eXter
an unwarrantabe jurisdiction We have I
minded them of the circumstances of our emigratiC
and settlement here. We have appealed to their
tive justice and magnanimity, and we have conjnrt
them, by the ties OF our common Elndred to dlsavO
g these nsurpations, which would inevitably interu
y our connections and correspondence. They, to
q have been deaf to the voice of justice and consa
guinity. We must therefore, acquiesce in the
~ sity which denounces separation, and hold tEeI
= as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war,
u peace, friends. r..,
Re We, therefore, the representatives of the UNIT
0 STATES OF AMERICA, in GENERAL CONGRESS asseI
!. bed, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the Wor
for the rectitude of our intentions do in the nam
and by the authority Of the good people of these
III onies, solemnly publish and declare that these III
ted Colonies are, and of right ought to be, FREE
ID INDEPENDENT STATES that they are absolved fro
all allegiance to the British Crown and that all polite
is connection between them and the State of Gre
y Britain is and ought to be totally dissolved; and t
N as Free and Independent States they have full pc
4 to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliane
d, establish commerce, and to do all other acts a
d things which INDEPENDENT STATES may of right
And, for the support Of this declaration, with fl
IN reliance the protection of DIVINE PRoyIDEst
,e we mutually pledge to each other lives, our
~ tunes and our sacred honors.
g The DIVERS ON LAKE ONTARIO The Roches
ar Union states that party of divers are engas
NJ in recovering the cargoes of sunken steamers in La
u Ontario. The propeller ]. W. Brooks, which vi
ie down in gale with all on board, has been found
ID eighty feet Of water, three miles from False Duo
ne Light, and an anchor was put ON board to hold