Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1858-07-10
The Declaration of Independence.

the political bands which have connecte
them with another, and to assume, anon
the mowers of the earth, the separate an
equal station to which the laws OF natu
and of nature's God entitle them, decen
respect TO the opnious Of mankind require
that they Should declare the causes whic
impel them to the separation.
I'VE hold these truths to be self evident
that all men are created equal that they ar
endowed, by their creator, with certain una
lenable rights that among these are life
liberty and the pursuit Of happiness. Tha
to secure these rights governments are iDsti
tuted among men, deriving their just power
from the consent of the governed; tina
whenever any form of government become
destructive Of these ends, it is the right o
the people to alter or to abolish it, and to in
stitute new government, laying its founda
tion on such principles, and organizing it
powers in such form, as to them shall seen
most likely to effect their safety and happi
ness Prudence, indeed, will dictate tina
governments long established, should not b,
| changed for light and transient causes an(
accordingly all experience has shown, tina
mankind are more disposed to suffer, while
| evils are sufferable, than to right themselvt
by abolshing the forms to which they are ac
| custOmed. But when long train of abuse!
and usurpations, pursuing invariably the
| same object, evinces design to reduce then
under absolute despotsnl, it is their right, il
is their duty, to throw off such government
| and to provide new guards for their future
security. Such has been the patient suffer
| ance of these colonies; and such is now the
| necessity which constrains them to alter theil
former systems of government. The history
of the present king Of Great Britain is his
| tory of repeated injuries and usurpations, al
having in direct object the establishment O
an absolute tyranny over these states. TIC
prove this, let facts be submitted to candid
world.
He has 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 Importance
unless suspended in their operation till his
assent should be obtained and when so sus-
pended, he has utterly neglected to attend to
them
lie has refused to pass other laws for the
accommodation of large districts of people,
unless those people would relinquish the right
of representation in the legislature right
inestimable to them, and formidable to ty-
rants Only. He has called together legisla-
tive bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable,
and distant from the depository of their pub
lie records, for the sole purpose of fatiguine
them into compliance with his measurs.
He has dissolved representative houses
repeatedly, for opposing with manly firm
ness, his invasions on the rights of the people
lie has refused for long time, after such
dissolutions, to cause others to be elected
whereby the legislative powers, incapable Of
annihlation, have returned to the people at
large for their exercise the state remaining,
IN the mean time, exposed to all the dangers
of invasion from without, and convulsons
within.
He has endeavored to prevent the popula-
ton OF these states for that purpose OBJ
structing the laws for the naturalization of
foreigners; refusing to pass others to encour-
ago their migrations hither, and raising the
conditions OF new appropriations of lands.
He has Obstructed the administration of
justice, by refusing his assent to laws for es-
tablshing 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.
He has erected multitude of new Offices,
and sent hither swarms of officers, to harass
our people, and eat out their substance.
lie has kept among us, in times of peace.
standing armies, without the consent of our
legislatures.
He has affected to render the military indie
pendent of, and superior to- the civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us
to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution,
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 murder which they
should commit en- the inhabitants of these
states;
For cutting off our trade with all parts of
the world;
For imposing taxes on US without our con-
sent;
For depriving us, in many cases, of the ben
efts of trial by jury;
For transporting us beyond seas to be tried
for pretended Offences;
For abollshing the free system of English
laws In nelghboring province, establishing
therein an arbitrary government, and enlarg-
ing It's boundaries so as ronder it at once an
example and fit instrument for introduc-
ing the same absolute rule into these colo
MES;
For taking away our charters, abolishing
our most valuable laws, and altering funda-
mentally the forms of our governments
For suspending our own legislatures, and
declaring themselves invested with power to
legisate for us in all cases whatsoever.
IIn tod l.,
claring us out of his protection, and waging
war against us.
He has plupdered our seas, ravaged our
coasts, burnt our towns and destroyed the
lives ofour people.
lie is at this time transporting large ar
mics OF fo:eign mercenaries to complete the
works of death, desolation, and tyranny, al
ready begun with circumstances of cruelty
and perfidy, scarcely paralleled in the most
barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the
head of civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow citizens, ta-
ken captive on the high seas, to bear arms
against their country, to become the eyecu-
tioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall
themselves by their hands.
He has excited domestic instructions
amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on
the inhabitants of our frontiers the mercless
Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare
is an undistnguished destruction of all ages,
sexes, and conditions.
In every stage of these expressions We
have petioned for redress in the most humble
terms. Our repeated petitions have been
answered only by repeated injury. A prince
| whose character is thus defined by every act
which may define o tyrant, is unfit to be the
ruler of free people.
Nor have we been wanting in our atten-
tiOns to our British brethren. We have
warned them, from time to time, of attempts
by their legislature to extend an unwarrant-
able jurisdiction over us. We have reminded
them of the circumstances of our emigration
and settlement here. We have appealed to
their native justice and magnanmity, and we
have conjured them by the ties Of our COM
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