The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-07-04
WHEELING. WEST VA. TUESDAY MORNING JULY 4 1865

others 10 encourage their migration
thitheri and raising the conditions of
new appropriations of lands. asol-i.iIf
Helms obStructed the administration
of Justice, by refusing his assent to laws
for establishing judiciary powers.
he has made judges dependent on his
will alone for the tenure OF their offices
ana the amount and payment of their
He has erected multitude of new
Offices, and sent hither swarms of Off
GERS to harass our people. and eat out
their substance.
He has kept among us in time of
peace; Standing armies, without the
consent of our legislatures, F-a.
independent of, and superior to-. the
civilfpower. S,FI 1dgitfnF, ngffagy;
He has combined, with others; to sub
Ject us to jurisdiction foreign to our
constitution, and unacknowledged by
our laws; giving his assent to their acts
ofpretended legislation. ..-s15sI
For quartering large bodies of armed
troops among us. 5s ~
For protecting them by mock trial,
from punishment for any murders
which they should commit on the in
ha abitants of these states. ....-- 10
For cutting off our trade witha all parts
of the world. IL
For imposing taxes on us without our
consent.
For depriying us, i'll many eases, of
the benefit of trial by jury.
For transporting us beyond seas, TO
he tried for pretended offences.
For abohshing the free system of
English lawBin neighboring province,
establishing therein an arbitrary GO
vernment, and enlarging itsboundaries
so as to render IL ut once an example
same absolute rule into these colonies.
For taking away our charters, abol-.
iShing our most valuable laws, and
altering, fundamentally, the forms of
our governments. -1i'1
For suspending our own legislatures,
and declaring themselves invested with
power 10 legislate for us In all cases
whatsoever. rl-r 81
: He has abdicated government here,
by declaring us out of his protection,
and waging war against us.
He has plundered our sens, raYaged
our coasts, burned our towns, and de-
stroyed the lives OF our people. ,la
He is, ut this time, transporting large
armies of foreign mercenaries to conf
plete the works of death, desolation and
tyranny already begun, with circum-
stances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely
paralleledin in the most barbarous ages,
and totally unworthy the head of Il
civilized nation.
Ho has constrained our fellow-citi-
Zens, taken captive on the high sens, to
bear arms against their country, to be-
come the eXecutiOners of their friends
and brethren, or to fall themselves by
their hands, sg,..5.---,a .-..-.
He has excited domestic instruction
among us, and has cndeavOred to bring
on the Inhabitants of our frontiers, the.
merciless Indian saVages, whose known
rule of warfare is an undistinguished
destruction of all ages, sexes and con-
ditions.
In evCry stage of these expressions
we have petitioned for redress in the
most humble terms; our repeated petit
tionS have been answered, only by re-
peated injury. a prince whose charac-
ter is thus marked by every act which
mny define II tyrant, is unfit to be the
ruler of free people.
Nor have we. been wanting in our
attentions to our British brethren. We
have warned them, from time to time,
of attempts by their legislature to oX-
tend an unwarrantable jurisdiction
over u.s. We have reminded them of
the circumstances of our emigration
and settlement here. We have appealed
to their native justice and magnani-
nifty, and we huVe conjureds them by
the ties of our common kindred, to dis
nVow these usurpatiOns, which would
inevitably interrupt our connections
and correspondence. They, too, have
been deaf to tho voice of Justice and of
cOnsanguinity. We must, therefore,
acquiesee III tho necessity which de-
nounceS our separation, and hold them
as we hold the rest of fmunkind-ene-
mics i'll wnr-in peace, friends.
We, therefore, the representatives of
the United States, in general Congress
assembled, appealing to the Supreme
Judge of the world for the rectitLde 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 nre,
and of right ought to be, free and inde-
pendent states; TINT they are absOlVeCl
from all allegiance to the British crown,
and that all political connection be-
tween them and the state of Great
Britain, is, and ought to be-, totally
dissolved, and that, as free and indie
pendent states, they have ftlll power to
/ levy war, conclude peace contract
alliances, establish commerce, and do
all other acts and things which indie
pendent states may Ofiright do. And
for the support of this Declaration, with
fDiNine ProYidepee, we mutually pledge
to each. other our lives, our fortunes,
and our sacred honor.
The Proclamation OF Freedom.
WHEREAS, On the 2ad day of septem.
lber, in the year of our Lord one thous-
and eight hundred aud siNty-two, a
Proclamation was issued by the Presi.
dent of the United States, containing
tamong other things, the following, e
'.That, ON the first day of January. in
the year of our Lord one thousand eighi
hundred sahd siXtN-tllree, all persons
held as slaves withinany State, or des.
lignated part of q State, the people
| whereof shall then be in rebellion
4 against the United States, shall -bt
Y then thenceforward and forever free
and the Executive Government of the
United states; Including the Military
and Naval authority thereof, viii