Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-06-11
Stlis&tIlaueous,
Declaration Of independence.
In CoNonEss, July 4th, 1776.

THE UNANIMOUS DECLARATION OF THE TIIlR-
TEEN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
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 scperate and equal station to which
the laws of nature and natures God en-
title them, decent respect to tne opin-
ions ofmankind requires that they should
declare the causes which pei them to
the separation.
We hold these truths to the self evi,
dent: that all men are created equal, that
they are endowed by their Creator with
certain unalienable rights; that among
these are lie, liberty, and the pursuit Of
happiness. That to secure these rights,
Governments are instituted among men,
deriving their just powers from the con-
sent of the governed /; that whenever
any form Of Government becomes de-
structive Of these ends, it is the right of
the people to alter or abolish it, and to
institute new Government, laying its
foundations on such principles, and or
ganizng its powers in such form, as to
them shall seem most likely to effect their
safety and happiness.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate, that
Governments long established should not
be changed forlight and transient causes;
and accordingly all experience hath shown
that mankind are more disposed to suf-
fer while evils arc suiIerable, than to
ri, hit themselves by abolishing the forms
to which they are accustomed. But when
long train of abuses and usurpations,
pursuing invariably the same object,
evinces a desire to reduce them under
absolute despotism, it is their right, it is
their duty, to throw off such Government,
and to provide new guards for their fu-
tue security. Such has been the patient
sutferance of these colonies; and such is
now the necessity which restrains them to
alter their former system of Government.
The history of the present king of Great
Britain is history of repeated injuries
and usurpations, al! having in direct OBJ
iect the establishment of an absolute tyr
amy over these States. To prove this let
facts be submitted to a candid world.
lie has refused his assent to laws the
most necessary and wholesome for the
public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass
laws of immediate and pressing impor-
tance, unless suspended in their operation
till his consent could be obtained; and
when SO suspended, he has utterly neglec-
ted to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other laws for
the accommodation of large districts of
people, unless those people would relin-
quish the right of representation in the
legislature-ari light inestiamable to them,
and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bod
les at places unusual, uncomfortable and
distant from the depository of their pub
lie records. for the sole purpose of fatigu-
ing them into compliance with his meas
ures.
He has dissolved representative houses
repeatedly. for opposing with manly firm
ness, his invasions on the rights of the
people.
lie has refused for long time after
such dissolutions to cause others to be
elected; whereby the legislative powers
incapable of annihiation, have returned
to the people at large for their exercise,
:he State remaining in the meantime ex-
posed to all the dangers of invasion from
without and convulsions within.
He has endeavored to prevent the pop
ulation of these States; for that purpose
obstructng the laws for naturalization
of foreigners; refusing to pass Others to
encourage their migration hither, and
raising the condition of new appropria-
tions of lands.
He has obstructed the Administration
of justice. by refusing his consent to
laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made judges dependent on hi
will alone, for the tenure of their offices
and the amount and payment of thei
4 salaries.
He has erected a multitude of new of
fees, and sent hither swarms OF officers
to haress our people, and eat up thei
substance,
He has kept among us in times c
peace, standing armies, without the con
sent of our Legislatures. q,
He has affected to render the militar
independent of, and superior to the civi
power.
He has combined with others to subjec