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

fees, and sent hitheI swarIns Of officers
70 haEasS the people, and eat out their
substance.
He has kept among US, in timeof peace,
standing armies, without the consent Oi
our legislatures.
He has affected to render tho military
independent Of, and superior to, the civil
power.
He has combined, with others, to sub.
ject US 10 q 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 a mock trial,
from punishment for any murders which
they should commit on the inhabitants Ol
these states:
For cutting off our trade with all parts
of the world:
For imposing taxes on US without our
consent:
For depriving US, in many cases, of the
benefit Of trial by jury:
For transporting US beyond seas to be
tried for pretended offences:
For abOlishing the free system of Eng
lish laws in = neighbOring province, es-
tAblishIng therein an arbitrary govern
ment, and enlaging its boundaries so ~ TO
render it at once an example and fit in
Strument for introducing IbS Ns'ns sbso.
Lutte rule in these colonies:
For taking away our charters, abolish.
ing our most valuable laws and altering,
fundamentally, the forms Of our govern
ments:
For sUspending our own legislatures,
- !~-.--;->~ .'>--~~o\-eS. Invested with
power to fsgis!ase for US in iii eases .waat-
SOever.
lie has abdicated government here, by
declaring US out Of his protection, and
waeing 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 to complete
the works of death, desolation, and tyran-
ny, already begun, with circumstances Of
cruelty and per6dy scarcely paralleled in
the most barbarous ages, aud totally un-
worthy the head Of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellOw.citiLens,
taken captive on the high seas to bear
arms against their country, to become the
executiOners of their friends and brethren,
or to 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 undistinguished de-
Struction OF all ages, sexes, and conditions.
In every stage Of these expressions, VIC
have petiiioncd for redress in the most
humble terms. Our repeated petitions
have been answered only by repeated in
jury. A prince, whose character is thus
marked by every act which may define a
tyrant, is untitto be the ruler Of free
people.
Nor have we been wanting in attentions
to our British brethren. We have warn.
ed them, from time, to time Of the at
tcmpts, by their legislature, to extend an
unwarrantable jurisdiction over US. We
have reminded them Of the circumstances
Of our emigration and settlement here.
We have appealed to their native justice
and magnanimty, and VIC have cOnjurcd
them, by the ties Of our common kindred,
to diSavow these u$urpations, which would
inevitably interrupt our connections and
correspondence. They, too, have been
deaf to the voice of justice and OF conSan.
guinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce
in the necessity which denOunces our
separation, and hold them, MS we hold the
rest Of mankind, enemies in war, in peace,
friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of
the United States Of America, in General
Congress assembled, appealing to the Su
preme Judge Of the world for the recti-
tude of our intentions. do, in the name,
and by the authority Of the good people
Of these colonies, solemnly publish and
declare that these United Colonies are,
and of right ought to be, free and indie.
pendent States; that they are absolved
from all allegiance to the British crown,
and that all political connection between
them and the state Of Great Britain is,
and ought to be, totally dissolved; and
lilht1 as Ucc 1hu thucpSuuChb OtoICS1 tuCJ
have full power to levy war, conclude
peace, contract alliances, establish COM
mcrce, and do all other acts and things
which independent States may of right
do. And, for the support of this declara.
ton, with firm reliance on the prOtec.
ton of Divine Providence, We mutually
pledge to each other our lives, our for.
tunes, and our sacred honor.
The foregoing declaration was, by or
der of Congress, engrossed, and signed by
the following members:
JoHN HANCOCK. SAMUEL CHASE,
SAMUEL ADAMS, WILLIAM PAcA,
JOHN ADAMS, THOMAS SFONI.
RoBaAr TnEAT PAINE ,CHARLES CARROLL,
ELBRIDoR GERRY, Of CurrOutOA,
JOSIAH BARTLETT, WILLIAM FLOYD,
WILLIAM WHIPPLR, PHILIP LIVINGSTON,
MATHEW THoRNToN, Francis LRwIS,
STRPHHN HOPEINS, LRwIO MoRRS,
WILLIAM ELLRRY, GEoR0R WYTHR,
CESAR RODNEY, RICHARD HGNRY LEE,
GEoR0E READ, THOMAS JEFFERSON,
THOMAS M'K8AN, BENJAMIN HARRISON,
| ROGsR SHERMAN, THOMAS NELSON, ia,
SAAUGL HUNTINGTON, FRANCIs LIGHTFOOr LES
| WILLIAA WILLIAMS, CARTER BRAXT0N,
| RICHARD STOCKTON, GBORGR CLYAER,
JOHN WITHRRSPooN, JANIS SMITHB,
| Francis HOrKINsON, GsORGH TAYLOR,
JOHH HART. JAMES WILSON,
| ABRAHAM CLARK, GRoR0R Ross,
| WILLIAM HOoPBR, EDWARD RUTLEDGB,
JosaPH HRWRs. THOMAS HAYWARD, ia.
| John PRAN THOAAR LYNCH