The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1865-07-05
Iroatp of frcrGunt.
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE,
Promulgated BY order OF Congress
JULY q. I770.

solve the political bands which havo con.
nvcled them with another, aud to assume,
among tho powers OF tho earth, the sopd
ratio and equal station to which the laws
ofnaturc aud of natures God eutitle them,
a decent respect TO the opinions OF mankind
requires that they should declare the causes
which impcl them to the separation.
We hold these truths 10 be seli.cvdeut,
that ALL NEN ARR CREATRD EQuAL; that they
are endowed 10y their Creator with certain
unalicnablc rights that among these arc
! life, liberty, aud the pursuit Of happiness.
| That, to secure these rights governments
are instituted among mon, deriving thoir
| just powers from the consent of the gov.
/ crucd; aud that, whenever any form Of gny-
crument becomes destructive of these
ends it is tie right of tho people TO
alter OF 0bplish it, and to institute now
government, laying its fouudations on such
| princip les, and organizing its powers in
such form, rs to them shall seem most likely
TO effect their safety and happiness, Pru.
doncc, indeed, will dictate that govern
ments, long established, should not DO
| changed for light aui transient causes; and
accordingly, all experience hath shown,
that mankind are more di posed to suffer,
while evils aro sunerahle, than to right
themselves hy aboliShing tho forms to
which they are accustomed. But, when
long train Of abuses aud usurpatious, pur-
suing invariably tho samo object, eviuccs
design to reduce them under absolute dcs-
potism, it is their right, it is their duty, to
throw of such government and TO prQYido
new guards for their future security. Such
has been the patient suitcrauce of the colo.
nios, and such is now the necessity which
conshains them to alter their former sy
| ln,, Nf h, tgtN e tl,n
present king of Great Britain is history
of repeated injuries and usurpations, all
having, in direct object, the establishment
OF an absolute tyranny over these states.
To proYc this, let facts be submitted to n
candid world:
lie has refused his assent to laws the
most wholesome and necessary for the pub
lie good,
He has forbidden his governors to pass
laws of immediate and pressing Importance,
unless suspended III their operations till
his assent should be obtainedi aud when
80 suspended, ho has utterly neglected to
attend to them.
He has refused TO pass other laws for
tho accommodation of largo districts of
people, unless those people would relin,
qush the right of representation in the
the legislature; a right inestimable to them,
and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies
at places unusual, uncomfortable, and dis
tant from the repository of their public
records, for the sole purpose of fatigning
them into compliance with his measures.
lie has dissolved representative houscs
repeatedly, for opposing with manly firm.
ness. bis inyasQns on tl!e rights OF the PEG
pie.
lie has refused, for long timo after such
: dissolutions, to cause others to be elected;
whereby the Legislative poWers, incapable
of annhilaton, have returned to the people
> at large for their exercise; the state remain
ing, in tho mcaptnc, exposed to All the
c danger Of Invasion from without, and con-
vulsions within.
lie has endcavored to prevent the popu-
c lation Of these states; for that purpose, OBJ
structing tho laws OF naturalization of for
eigners, refusing to pass others to euccur
q age migration thither, and raising the con
ditions of new appropriations of lands.
+ lie has obstncted the administration Of
-, Justice, by refusing Ills assent to laws fol
- establishing Judiciary powers.
o lie has made judges dependent on his
will alone, for the tenure of their Offices
& and tho amount and payment OF their sala
ries.
' lIo has crectcda mqltitHdo ofneY Offices
and sent hithGg sWnrms of office 10 hqras
.e our people, and cat out our substance.
/ lie has kept among us in time of peac
standing armies, without the consent OF ON
!? Legislature.
t. lie has affect Vi to render the military indie
peldent of, aud superior to, tho civ
le power.
He has combined, with others, to suhjcc
i us to jurisdiction foreign to our coust
:, tuition, aud unAcEpo by our laws
~ giving his assent 10 their acts of pretende
legislation;
For qpartcring large lodies Of arme
D. troops among uSi
For portccting them, by a mock tria
D. from punishment of any murders whic
II they should commit on the inhabitants {
these states;
- For cutting off our trade with all pert
|" of the world;
II For imposing taxes on ps without OH
40 consent;
n0 For dopriying Ms, in many cases, of iii
benefit Of trial by jury;
For transporting us beyond seas to b
tried for pretended offences;
For abplishng the free system of Eng
lisb laws in neighboring province, estal
fishing therein an arbitrary goyernmen
allC CnlfRlnR lis Dounudtle5 30 sfS 10 Isl
der il at once Al example and fit inatrl
mcnt for introducing the same absolute ru
into these colonies;
For taking away oDr charters, abolish
ing our most valuable laws, and altering
fundamentally, the forms Of our govern
nents;
For suepending our own legislatures, an
declaring themselves invested with pow'
TO legisate for us in all cases whatsoever
lie has abdcated goyernment here 10y d.
claring us out oGhis protection, apd yagin
war against lis.
lie has pIundered our seas. ravqged Or
coasts barnt onr tQwns, aud destroyed n
lives of our people.
lie is, at this time, transporting larg
armies Of foreign merccnaries; TO complet
The work OF death, desolation and tyranu.
already begun, with circumstances
cruelty and perlidy sc4rely parallr led IN Il
most barbar0us ages, and totally unwOrtl
the head Of a civilged patton.
lie hes constrained ppr fellow-ctizei
taken captive on tho high seas, to bei
arms against their country, TO become Il
executigners of their friends and brothre
or to fall themselyes by their hands.
lie has excited domestic insnrrectioI
amongst us, has eDdeavored 10 bring on Il
inhabitants Of our frontiers, tle mercile
Indian sayages, whose known rule OF wa
fare is on qudistinguished destruction
all ages, gexes, and conditions.
ia every stage of these expressions. y