New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-07-03
NUMBER IO3.
.DECL LARATT8N 9F INDEPENDENCE
THuRsDAY, JULY J, I77e.
4 Declaration BY the ReprssenfatiUes If ase INIT
Slatsg Of Ameriea, il Congress assembked.

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| When, 10 the course Of human events, 1t becomes
necessary lor one people 70 dissolve the political
bands which have connected them with another, and
to assume, among the powers Of the earh the sepa-
1 rate and equal station 10 which the laws or nature
and Of natures God entitie them decent respect 10
the opinions Of mankind requires that they shouId
declare the causes which impe them to the separation
We hold these truths 70 be seteyidenf that all men
are created eqnal that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain nnaiienable rights that among
these are life liberty, and the parsuit Of happiness
That, TO secure these rights governments aye fti-
tuted among men, deriving their lust powers from
\ the consent Of the governed that, whenever any
i form OF government becomes destructive Of these
ends it is the right Of the people to alter or to abo.
ish it, and 70 Institute new government laying fts
foundation on such principles, and organizing ia
i powers ~ such form, as to them shall seem most
likely 10 effect their safety and happiness Prudence
| indeed VIII dictate that governments long estabs
lished should not be changed for light and transient
causes and, accordingly all experience bath shown
that mankind are more disposed to suffer- while evils
are suherabe than to right themselves BY aboIishfng
the forms to which they are accustomed. But, when
long train Of abuses and usnrpations, pursuing In
varla5ly the same object eYinees design to reduce
them under absolute desp0tisn it ia their right il IS
their duty 70 throw of anch government and to nro-
vide new guards for their future security. Such has
Il been the patient safieraHce OF these colonies and
such s now the necessity which eonsIrains them to
alter their former systems of government. The his
tory Of the present King Of Great Britain ID history
OF repeated Injuries and nsurpations, all having, in
i ulLGGb QLIeGtJ tue EStADlIsDEnEuL absolute
ranny these States TO prove this let facts be
\ submitted to a candid world:
/ He has refused his assent to laws She most whole.
! some and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass laws Of i'm
1 mediate and pressing Importance, unless suspended
in their operation till his assent should be obtained
and, when 50 suspended he has utterly neglected 10
attend TO them.
He has refused to pass other laws forthe aocommo-
daton OF large districts Of people unless those people
would reinquish the right of representation in the
Legislature right inestmable TO them, and Eormi-
| dable TO tyfants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at piaces
unusual, uncomfortable and distant from the deposi
tory Of their public records for the sole purpose Of
iatIguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly
for opposing, with manly irInness, his inyasions on
4 the rights OF the people.
He has refused, for long time after such dissolu-
tons, 70 cause others TO be elected; whereby the
legislative powers, incapable of aunihilatiOn have
returned to the people at large for their exercise
the State remaining, in the meantime exposed to all
the danger Of invasion from without, and Commissions
/ Within
He has endaavored TO prevent the population 81
these States for that purpose, obstrnctng the laws
for naturalization Of foreigners; refusing to pass
Others 10 encourage their migration hther and rails
ing the conditions Of new appropriations OF lands
He has obstructed the administration Of justice by
refusing his assent 10 laws for establishing judiciary
| powers.
He has made judges dependent on flig win alone,
| payment Of their salaries.
He has erected multitude of new offices, and sent
hitheT swarms Of officers to harass our people, ana
| 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 mas combined, With others, TO subieetus 10 a
Jurisdiction foreign to cur constitution and unac-
knowled by our laws giving his assent to their acts
OF pretended legislation
For qnartering large bodies Of armed troops among
us:
For protecting them, by mock trial from punish
ment, for any murders which they should commit on
the inhabitants Of these States:
4 For cutting off our trade With all parts Of the
world:
For imposing taxes on us without our consent
For depriying US 10 many cases, Of the benefits Of
trial by jury
For transporting US beyond seas to be tried pre-.
| tended otenses:
For abolishing the free system Of English laws ID
neghboring province, establishing therein an arbi.
trary government, and enlarging its boundaries
to render It at once an example and fit instrument
for introducing the same absolute rule into these col
/ ones:
For taking away our charters, abolishing our most
valuable laws, and altering, fundamentally, the pow.
eTs of our governments:
For snspending our own legislatures aud declaring
themselves invested with power to legisate for us ID
4 all cases whatsoever.
4 He has abdcated government here by declaring us
uub VI HIS pEUteCliOus anu WHEug war against
He has plundeTed our seas, raVaged our coasts
burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives Of oul
people.
He is, at this time, transporting large armies o
foreign mercenaries to complete the works Of death
desoati0n, and tyranny, already begun with circum
stances of cruelty and perdy scarcely paraIleed in
the most barbarons ages, and totally unworthy the
head of aseiyilized nation.
He has constrained our fellnW.ctizens taken can
4 tive on the high seas, to bear arms against Their
country to become the execufonefs of their friends
and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
He has excited domestic instructions amongst us,
and has endeayOred to bring the inhabitants oi
our frontiers the mereiless Indian saYages whose
known rule OF warfare is an undstingushed estrue.
ton, of all ages, sexes, and conditions
In every stage OF these expressions, we have pe-
toned for redress in the most humble terms our re-
peaed petitions have been answered only by repeated
injury. prince, whose character ia thus marked by
every act which may define tyrant, IS unfit to be
the ruler OF free people.
4 Nor have we been wanting ia attention to our
British brethren. We have warned them, from time
to time, of attempts made by their legislature to ex-
tend an unWarTantabe jurisdiction over US. We have
reminded them OF the circumstances of our emigra-
ton and settlement here. We have appealed to their
native Justice and magnanimty and we have con.
jured them, by the ties of our common kindred, to
disavow these usufpasions, which would inevitably
Interrupt our connections and correspondence They,
too have been deao the voice Justice and eonsan.
guinty We must therefore, acquiesce in the neces.
sty which den0unees our separation, and hold them,
as we nOd the rest OF mankind, enemies IN war; In
peace, friends
We, therefore, the Representatives of the UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA, in GENER Al CON.
GRESS assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge
of the World for the reettuae of onr Intentions do
in the nara and by the authority of the good people
of these colonies, solennly publish and declare That
these United Colonies are, and OF right ought to be-
! FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES; that they
are absolyed from all allegiance to the Brtsherown
and that all political connection between them and
the State of Great Britain, is. and ought to be- to-
tally dissoyed and that as FREE AND INDE-
/ PENDENT STATES, they have full power TO
levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances estab
ish commerce, and to do all other acts and things
which INDEPENDENT STATES may Of right do
4 And for the support of this declaration, with firm
reliance on the protection of DIVINE Providence
we mutually pledge to each other onr lives our fol-
tunes, and our sacred honor.
BAD ApvIsERs-The New York Times says:
The London Daily News is instructing its Englsf
readers on the subject Of the British outFages in
forms them, with The utmost gravity that all thest
stories were coneoGted by the President to divert at
tenti0n from Kansas and quotes Wendell Phillips anC
the Evening Post to prove it. IL speaks Of tht
former as representative of Northern sentiment ant
takes great comfort from snndry predictions whict
he has made concerning the growing iHsignifcanei
of the Federal Government. ALI this sounds very III
dicHloas, when it comes back to us from the othe