The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-07-04

WHEN, III the course of human events,
it becomes necessary for one people to
dissolve the political binds Which have
connected them with another, and to
assume, among the powers of the earth,
the separate and equal station to which
the laws pfinature and of natures God
entttle them, n decent respectEt0i the
opinions of mankind requires that they
should declare the causes which impel
them TO the separation.
We hold these truths to be selE-eyi-
dent: that all men are created, equal !;
that they are endowed by their Creator
with certain. Ainalienable rights fthat
among these are life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness. That to secure
these rights governments are instituted
among men, deriving their just powers
from the consent of the goVerned: and
that, whenever any form of government
becomes destructive of these ends, 1T is
the right of the people to alter70rtabol-
ish II, and to institute new government,
ilayingitS foundations on such principles
and organizing its powers in such form,
as to them shall seem most likely to
effect their safety and happiness. Pru-
dence, indeedI Will dlctlte that govern
ments long established, should not be
changed for light and transient causes ;
land, accordingly,gall experience hath
shown, that mankind nre more dis
posed to suffer, while evils are suffer-
able, than to right themselves by abol-
ishing thelforms tofwhich they are aC.-
custoned. But, when a long train OF
abuses and Rusurpations, pursuing in
| EartablY Y the SAME object, evinces a
design to reduce them under abso4
Lutte despotlsm, it is their right,
it is their duty, to throw off such
j government and to l.proHide new
itgItards for their future Security. Such
llns been the patient sufierance of the
.tCOIOnip9
which ,constrnins them to alter their
former systemsi of government. THE
history of the present king of Great
Britain is Il history of repeated injuries
ana guSurpatiOps, all having in direct
j iObject, the establishment of an absolute
Tyranny over these states. To nr6Se
!. this, let facts be submitted to a candid
world:
j He has Gefused his assent to laws the
most wholesome and necessary for the
public good. ts'fl-s 7l3i 49, !. 7
I, He has forbidden his governors to
pasS laws of Immediate and pressing
importance, unless suspended in theiI
operations till his assent should be %!
tanned; and, when SO suspended, he has
utterly neglected to attend to them. I
He has refused to pass other laws fol
tthe atton OF large districts oi
people, unless those people would re.
linQuish the right Of repTesentati ION IN
!,
them, and formidable to tSTaItts only
/ He. has called together Legislative
} bodies at llcesunusual, al,uncomfortabIa
and distant from the epOsitOrys Of,theil
ipubllcs records, for thc5sole purpose O
lfAtiguipg them into comp plfance With hi.
measures. - 9tzi5s 20 = =
He has dissolved B representative
houses repeatedly, for opposing witt
4 manly ffTnness his inyasions on tlit
rights of the people. 'jie. ~ aiiitss.i
he has refused, for a long time aftel
such disSolutions, to cause others to bt
Z sEelected, whereby the legislative poWerI
!, incapah Ofannihil alton, ,havsFetlITneE
to tho people Mt lRfge for their exercise
the state remaining, In the meantime
lexposed to, all the dangers of. invasion
from without, and conYulsi6n 6ns within
He has endeavored to prevent tht
population of these states; for that par
pose, obstructin the laws OF natnrafiza
sion Of fofstg1iesfs; sf refasing TO, pas.
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