Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-11-24
PROPOSED DECLARATION OF INDEPEN
DENCE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.

When, in the course Of huGlan events, it be-
comes necessary for one people to dissolve the po-
litical bands which have connected thcm with an
other, and to assume among the powers of the
earth the separate and equal station to which the
laws Of NATURES God entitle them, a decent re-
spect to the opinions Of mankind requires that
they should declare the causes which impel them
to the separation.
We hold these truths 10 be seIfevident that,
all men are created wholly unequal, mentally,
morally and physically, yet they are all equally
entitled, under every civilized government, to the
full protection of their lives, persons and proper
ty, for which protection governments are solely
instituted among men, deriving their Just powers
solely from the consent Of the governed that
whenever any form of government becomes des.
%tructiVe of these ends, it is the right Of the pee
pie to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new
government, laying lis foundation on such princi-
Piles, and organizing its powers in such form as to
them shall seem most likely to affect their safety
and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate
that governments long established should not be
changed for light and transient causes and ac-
cordingly, all experience hath shown that man
kind are more disposed to suffer while ills ara suf-
ferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the
forms to which they are accustomed. But when a
long train of abuses aud usurpation, pursuing in
variably the same object, evinces a design to re-
duce them under absolute despotism, il is their
duty, to throw off such government, and to pro-
vide new guards for their future security. Such
has been the patient suferance of the Southern
States Of this Union, and ssch is now the neces-
aitu uybioh nNnakraina Abapo 10 a1to. III. -----.
system of Federal Government. The history Of
the present Northern States is a history Of repeat
ed injuries, insults and usurpAtions, all having a
direct object in the establishment of an absolute
tyranny over the Southern States. To prove this,
let facts be submitted to a candid world.
lst. The Northern States of this Union have
for many long years warred against our peculiar
institution of Slavery, instigated by the dictates
Of a relentless fanaticism, which declares that in
.stitution to be a moral sin, what we hold 20 be n
institution, established by God himself in
the decree enunicaled to Moses On Mt. Sinai
Both thy bondmen and b%ondmaids which thou
shall. have, shall be Of the heather that are around
about you Of them shall ye buy bondmen and
bondmaids moreover, of the children of the
that %sojourn among you, Of them shall
ye buy, and they shall be your possession; 20
shall take them as an Inheritance for your child
rem after you, to inherit them for a possession .
they shall be your bondmen forever" And We
further hold that this Divinely established %institu-
was always sanctioned BY our Savior and his
I'd. A large number of the NortherR States
have nullyfed the Constitution Of the present In
on BY passing laws to prevent the fulflment of
hat Constitution, which declares that fugitive
'laves shall be delivered up to their owners the