The weekly mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado County, Calif.) 1861-1862, 1862-07-04
Declaration Of independence.

When, in the course of human events,
it becomes necessary for one people to
dissolve the political bands which have
connected them with another, and to as
sumo, among the powers Of the earth, the
separate and equal station to which the
laws Of nature and natures God entitlc
them, decent respect to the opinions Of
mankind requires that they should declare
the causes which impel them to the sep
aration.
We hold these truths to be self.evident,
that all men are created equal that they
are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalicnabe rights that among these are
life, liberty and the pursuit Of happiness
That to secure these rights, governments
are instituted among men, deriving their
just powers from the consent Of the gov
crncd, and that, whenever any form of
government becomes destructive of these
ends, it is the right Of the people to alter
or abolish it, aud to institute new govern.
ment, laying its foundations on such prin.
cipleS, and organizing its powers in such
form. as to them shall seem most likely to
effect their safety and happiness. Pru.
dence, indeed, will dictate that govern
ments, 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 sufferable, than to
right themselves by abolishing the forms
to which they are accustomed. But
when long train Of abuses and usurpa.
tons, pursuing invariably the same object;
evinces ii design to reduce them under
absolute despotism, it is their right, it is
their duty, to throw off such government
aud to provide new guards for their future
security. Such has been the patient sui
ferancc Of the colonies, and such is now
the necessity which constrains them t.
alter their former systems of government
The history Of the present King Of GreaI
Britain is history of repeated injuries
and usurpationS, oil having, in direct OBJ
ject, 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.
lie has forbidden his governors to pass
laws of immediate and pressing import
ance. unless suspended in their operation,
till his assent should be obtained; and
when SO suspended, he has utterly neg
lected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other laws fol
the accommodation of large districts o
people, unless those people would relin
quish the right of representation in thu
legislature; a right inestimable to them
and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bod
les at places unusual, uncomfortable, anC
distant from the repository of their public
records, for the sole purpose of fatiguine
them into compliance with his measures
He has dissolved representative houses
repeatedly, for opposing, with manly firm
ness, his invasion on the rights of the
people.
He has refused, for q long time after
such dissoiutions, to cause others to be
elected whereby the legislative powers
incapable of humiliation, 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 commissions within.
He has endeavOred to prevent the pop
uIatiOn of these states; for that purpose
Obstructing the laws of naturalization oil
foreigners, refusing to pass others to en-
courage their migration thither, and rails
ing the conditions Of new appropriations
of lands.
He has obstructed the administration
0fjustice, by refusing his assent 10 laws
for establishing judiciary powers
800 He has made judges dependent on his
will alone, for the tenure OF their Offices,
and the amount and payment Of their 0al'
aries.