Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1859-07-01

the puliiical bands which have connected then
with another, and to assume among the powers
of the earth the separate and equal station 10
which the laws OF nature and OF nature God
entities them, a decent respect TO the opinions
of mankind requires that they should declare
the causes which Impel them 10 the separation
We hold these truths to be self-evdent-
that all men are created equal: that they are
endowed by their Creator with certain unahen
d6k rights that among these are. hfe, hb,rfy
and The pursuit " hdPpiness That 10 secure
these rights, governments are instituted among
men, derising hsei just pO0ers from. the consent
! Of the g0rerned: tina, whenever any form OF
government becomes desfruciirs of these ends
II is the right of the people TO alter or 10 abolish
I il, and to institute new government, laying It's
/ foundation on such principles. and organizing
its powers In such form, as 10 them shall seem
most likely TO effect their safety and happi-
ness. Prudence indeed will dictate. that gov
ernments 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 suilerable, than to right themselves
! by abolIShins the forms 10 which they are ac-
! customed. But when a long tram OF abuses
| and uSurpatIons, pursuing invariably the same
! object, eyInceS a design 10 reduce them under
absolute deSpOtsm, II Is their right, It Is their
duty, 10 throw oil such government, and 10
provide new guards for their future security.
Such has been the patient Suilerance Oi these
colonies and such is now the necessity which
constralns them to aller their former system
of government. The history of the present
King Of Great Britain is a history of repeated
injuries and usurpations, all having in direct
object the 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 the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors To pass
laws of immediate and pressing importance,
unless suspended In their operations until his
assent should be obtained; and when SO sus-
pended, 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 relinquish the right
of Representation in the Legislature a rish,
inestimabe to them, and formidable to tyrants
only.
He has called together legislative bodies al
places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant
from the depository of their public --eords,roI
the sol. r--Poss Ur raliguing them into COM
pliance with his measures.
He has dissolved representative houses re-
pea,edly for opposing with manly frmness his
invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time after such
dissourions, TO cause others 10 be elected,
whereby the legislative powers, incapable of
annihilation. have returned TO the people at
large for their exercise, the state remaining in
the meantime exposed 10 all the dangers of
invasion from without and commissions
within.
He has endeavored to prevent the popula-
ton of these states : for that purpose obStruct-
ing the laws for naturalization of foreigners
refusing TO pass others TO encourage their
migration hlther, and raising the conditions
of new appropriations of lands.
He has obstrucled the administration of
justice, by refusing his assent to laws for es-
tabiiShing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his will
alone for the tenure of their offices, and the
amount aud payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of new offices,
and sent hlther 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
legislatures.
He has affected to render the military inde-
pendent of, and superior to- the civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us
TO 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 mock trial. from
punishment for any murders they should COM
NIT on the inhabitants of these states:
For cutting of 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
benefits of trial by jury:
For transporting US beyond seas to be tried
for pretended offences
For abolishIng the free system Of English
laws in a neishborlng province, establishing
therein an arbitrary government, and enlarg-
Ing It's boundaries, so as to render 1t at once
an example aud fit instrument for introducing
the same absolute rule into these colonies:
For taking away our charters, abolish
ing our most valuable laws, and altering fun
damenially the forms of our governments:
For suspendins our own legislatures, and
declaring themselves invested with power to
legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdlcated government here, by de-
clarnig rs out of his protection and waging
war against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our
coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the
lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large armies |
of foreign mercenaries 10 complete the works |
of death, desolaron and tyranny, already be- !
gun with circumstances of cruelty and peril |
dy scarcely paralleled In the most barbarous |
ages, and totally unworthy the head OF a civil |
lied nation.
He has constrained our felow-ci;izens. |
taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms
against their country, to become the execu-
TONERS of their friends and brethren, or 10 fall
themselves by their hands.
He has excited domestic instructions
amongst us, and has endeavored TO bring on
the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless /
Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare
is an undisiinguished destruction of all ages,
sexes and conditions.
In every stage ofthese expressions, We have
petitloned for redress in the most humble
terms our repeated petitlons have been an
swered only by repeated injury. A prince
whose character is thus marked by every act
which may define tyran., Is unht to be the
ruler Of free people.
Nor have We been wanting IN attentions 10
our BRUSH brethren. We have warned them
from time to time OF attempts by their lectsla-