The evening Argus., 1865-06-23
IN CONGRESS JULY 4, l716.

powers of the earth the separate and equal
station to which the laws of nature and OF ma
ture's God entitle them, decent respect Tor
the opinions of mankind requires that tney
should declare the causes which impei them
to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self evident
that all men are created equal that they are
endowed by their Creator with certain ina
lienable rights that among these are lite,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That
to secure these rights, governments are In
stituted among men, deriving their just pow
ers from the consent of the governed; that
whenever any form of government becomes
destructive of these ends, 1t is the right OF
the people to alter or to abolish 1t, and TO In
titute new government, laying It's founoa-
tion on such principles, and organizing It's
powers in such form, as to them shall seem
most likely to effect their safety and happi-
ness Prudence, indeed, will dictate that
governments 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 ac-
customed. But when q long train of abuses
and usurpations, pursuing invariably the
same object, evinces design to reduce them
under absolute despotism it is their right, 1t
is their duty TO throw off such government,
and to provide new guards for their future
security. Such has been the patient suffer
ance of these colonies and such Is now the
necessity which c0nstrains them to alter their
former systems of government. The history
of the present king of Great Britain is his
tory of repeated injuries and usurpations, all
having in direct object the establishment OF
an absolute tyranny over these states TO
prove this let facts be submitted to candid
world
He has refused his assent to laws the most
wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his governors to pass
laws OF immediate and pressing Importance,
unless suspended In their operation till his
assent should be obtained and, when so sus
pended, he has utterly neglected to attend to
them.
He has refused to pass other laws for the
accommodation of large districts of people,
unless those people would relinquish the
right of representation in the leglslature-a
right inestimable to them, and formidable to
tyranss only. He hns called together legisla-
tive bodies at places unusual, uncomfor table,
and distant from the depository of their pub
lie records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing
them into compliance with his measures.
lie has dissolved representative houses re-
peatedly, for opposing with manly frmness
his invasions on the rights of the people.
dissolutions to cause others to be elected
whereby the legislative powers, incapable OF
annihilation, have returned to the people at
large for their exercise; the state remaining
in the meantime exposed 20 all the dangers
of invasion from without and oonvulsions
within.
He has endeavored to prevent the popuia-
tion of these states for that purpose obstruc-
ting the laws for naturalization of foreigners,
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migrations hither, and raising the conditions
of new appropriations of lands.
He has obstructed the administration of
Justice by refusing his assent to laws for es-
tablishing Judiciary powers.
He has made judges dependent his will
alone for the tenure of their Offices, and the
amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected q multitude of new off ces
and sent hither swarms of off cers, to harass
our people and eat out their substance.
He has kept among US, in times OF peace,
standing armies, without the consent of our
legislatures,
He has affected to render the military inde-
pendent of, and superior to- the civil power
He has combined with others to subject us
to 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 mock trial, from
punishment for any murders which they
should commit on the inhabitants of these
states
For cutting off our trade with all parts of
the world;
For imposing taxes without our con-
sent
For depriving us, in many cases, of the
benefits of trial by jury;
For transporting US beyond the seas TO be
tried for pretended ofenses
For abolishing the free system of English
laws in a neighboring province. establishing
therein an arbitrary government, and enlar
ging its boundaries, so as to render il at once
an example and fit instrument for introduc
ing the same absolute rule into these colon
les
For taking away our charters, abollshing
our most valuable laws, and altering funda-
mentally the forms of our governments
For suspending our own Legislatures, and
declaring themselves invested with power to
legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated government here, by de-
claring US out of his protection, and waging
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 arm
les of fornjsn mercenaries TO complete the
works of death dssolation and tyranny al
ready begun with circumstances of cruelty
and perfdy scarcely paralleled in the most
barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the
head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow citizens,
taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms
against their country, to become the execu-
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