Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1867-07-04
DECLAR ALTON OF INDEPEN-
DENCE.


! ASlCCuDlJ W wv OANNA VI WV
day, the Congress resolved itsel
into committee of the whole, tC
take into their further consideration
the Declaration; and after some time
the President resumed the chair
and Mr., Harrison reported that the
committee had agreed to declara
ton, which they desired him to re
port. (The committee consisted OF
Jefferson, Franklin, John Adams,
Sherman and r. r. Livingstone
The Declaration being read, was
agreed to, as follows;
A DECLARATION.
! By the Representatives of the United
States, in Congress Assembled.
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 assume, among the
powers of the earth, the separate
and equal station to which the laws
of nature and Of natures God en-
title them, a decent respect to the
opinions Of mankind requires that
they should declare the causes
which impel 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 unaliena-
bic rights; that among these, are
life, liberty, and the pursuit Of hap
piness. That to secure these rights,
governments are instituted among
men, deriving their just powers from
the consent of the governed; that,
whenever any form of government
becomes destructive Of these ends,
it is the right Of the people to alter
or to abolish it, and to institute a
new government, laying its founda-
ton on such principles, and organ
izing its powers in such form, as to
them shall seem most likely to effect
their safety and happiness. Pru-
dencc, indeed, will dictate that gov
crnments long established, should
not be changed for light and tran
sicnt causes; and, accordingly, all
experience hath shown, that man
kind are moro disposed to suffer,
while evils are sutiGrable, than to
right thcmselvea by abolishing the
forms to which they are accustomed,
But, when Il long train Of abuses
and usurpations, pursuing inyaria-
bly, the same object, cvinces de
sign to reduce them under absolute
dcspotism, it is their right, it is
their duty, to throw Off such gov
crnment, and to provide new guards
for their future security. Such has
been the patient sufierance Of these
colonies, and such is now the neces-
sity which c0nstrains them to alter
their fomcrsystems of government.
The history of the present King of
Great Britain is a history of repeat
ed injuries and usurpations, all hay
ing, in direct object, the establish
mcnt Of an absolute tyranny over.
these States To prove this, let
facts be submitted to u candid
world:
He has refused his assent to laws
the most wholesome and necessary
for the public good.
lie has forbidden his Governors
to pass laws Of immediate and press
ing Importance, unless suspended
in their operation till his assent
should he obtained; and when So
suspended, 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 peo.
pie would relnquish the right of
representation in the Legislature; a
right incstimable to them, and for
midable to tyrants only,
He has called together Legislative
bodies at places unusual, uncom-
Portable, and distant from the de
pository of their public records,
for the sole purpose of fntiguing
them into compliance with his meas
urcs.
lie has dissolved representative
houses repeatedly, for opposing,
with manly frmncss, his invasions
on the rights Of the people,
lie has refused, for long time
after such dissolutions, to cause
Others to he elected whereby the
Legislative powers, incapable Of an.
hni ilation, have returned to the
people at large for their exercise /;
the state remaining, In the mean
time, exposed to all the danger Of
INVASION from without, and conyul,
sions within,
lie has eudeavored to prevent the
population of these States; for
that purpose, obstructmg the laws
for naturalization of foreigners; re-
fusing to pass Others to encourage
their migration hither, and raising