The weekly Anglo-African., 1860-01-14
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPEN.
DENCE.

The greatest announcement affecting the
interests Of man ever made since the ad-
vent of the Redeemer, was the synopsis of
the rights of man, made by the immortal
signers of the Declaration of independence,
on the 4th day of July, 1916.
The announcement was antagonistic to
the opinions of all former ages, and the
then existing powers of this world. Rus
sci, Sidney, Milton, Cromwell, and Locke,
were permitted to ascend the mount of dis
covery, and behold, as by prophetic sight,
in the land of the setting sun, beyond the
vast Atlantic, people asserting what
these philosophers believed; that all men
were created free and equal, and possessed
of certain inalienable rights, amongst
which were life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness. What they hoped for man, we
have seen and heard. When this sublime
declaration was made on the 4th of July,
1916, it was high treason, and political
atheism, in every other government on
earth .s.
To all other governments with birth
born kings, birth-born Legislators, birth
born Judges, this declaration OF the Amer
lean revolutions was thousand times more
formidable, than war or revolution itself.
This was great fundamental proposition,
placing all men on a level, and as equals,
in the start of the journey of existence;
stating the value, the riches of their ele-
mental capital, which no insolvency could
divest, no bankruptcy carry away. Slav-
cry, or the Unbeatable dominion of man
over man, with its complicated train of
trucking dependencies, artificial distinc-
ton, the iron-railing of caste, were in one
day, by the great proposition of the 4th of
July, struck down as false in principle.
This was the sentiment Of a New World,
and the signers of the great human being
postulatuna, spoke for themselves, and the
unborn nations of this great continent, re-
presenting this great Americanism of the
new hemisphere. The glorious sound
went careering through the world, that
all men were created free and equal. The
Massachusetts, slave heard its music, and
joined in the chorus, and his freedom was
confessed. The slaves of New York and
Pennsylvania listened to the joyful acclaim;
the man-chattel of New Hampshire caught
the still-small voice, and joined in thanks
to Heaven, that all were free. Congress
caught the sound, and said, the African
slave trade should cease on our part for
ever, and that no slave should tread the
States of Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan,
and the territories of Wisconsin and Iowa.
The angel of deliverance few with the
mighty scroll in her right hand over valley
and mountain to the vast lands of Mexico,
and proclaimed from the summit of her
smoking volcanoes, that all men were born
free and equal; and in one day, $4,000
black slaves, and two millions of enslaved
Indians, in their repartinaentoes, in the
mountains, in the mines: in the workshops,
and on the roads, in their chains, heard the
glorious decree, and they all in chorus
Joined, and sung, "that all men are created
free and equal" and in that instant they
stood up free. The angel cried again in
Guatemala and Peru, from the depth of the
blue heavens, "that all men were created
free" The black and red slave heard his
voice, from the mountain and the mine, the
hill and the hollow, that all men were cre-
ated free and equal, and their fetters fell
from their delivered hands as they lifted
them to Heaven; and then they sung, all
men are created free and equal" for they
were free.
Along upon the mighty Andes the angel
few, and from Chimborazo's icy top, she
cried again SO loud and long, that the tens
of thousands of poor bondsmen of Chill
heard, some in those unvisited regions,
subterranean, damp, dreary, digging gold
ore and veins of silver, far under the floor
of the roaring Pacific, who never sawlight;
while others were delving in the depths and
bowels of the Andes, to satisfy the accursed
thirst of gold; others in smelling houses
loaded with chains; others driving, as serfs,
their masters focks of goats and sheep on
the mountains side, and the loaded mule
along; others with loads upon their heads,
in the rounds Of common life, who wore
out their being for thankless masters; 9TH
ers to galleys chained others bound to
posts, whose backs were being scourged ;
others in deferential form were listening
to the raging words of graceless masters.
ALI heard the long and loud trupet sound
"that all men were created free and equal. =