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

For protecting them, by a 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 onuS without
our consent;
For depriying us, in many cases,
of the benefits Of trial by jury;
For transporting us beyond seas
to be tried for pretended offences /;
For abolishiug the free system OF
English laws in Il ncighboring prov
ince, establishing therein an arbi'
trary government, and charging its
boundaries, 50 as to render it al
once an example and fit instrument
for introducing the same absolute
rule into these colonies;
For taking away our charters,
abolishing our most valuable laws,
and altering, fundamentally, the
powers Of our governments;
For suspcnding our own legisla.
lures, and declaring themselves in
vested with power to legislate for
us in all cases whatsoever.
lie has abdicatcd government
here, by declaring us out Of his
protection, and waging war against
US.
He has plundercd our seas, raw
aged our coasts, burnt our towns
and destroyed the lives Of our peo-
pie.
He is, at this time, transporting
large armies Of foreign mcrcenaries
to complete the works Of death,
desolation, and tyranny, already be
gun, with circumstances Of cruelty
and pcrfdy scarcely paralleled in
the most barbarous ages, and total
ly unworthy the head Of Il civilized
nation.
He has constrained our fellow
citizens, taken captive on the high
seas, to bear arms against their
country, to become the execution
ers of their friends and brethren,
or to fall themselves by their
hands.
He has excited domestic insur-
rections amongst us, and has en-
dcavorcd to bring on the inhabit-
ants of our frontiers, the merciless
Indian savagcs, whose known lule
of warfare is an undistinguished de
struction, Of all ages, sexes, and
In every stage Of these opprcs
sions, we have petitioned for redress
in the most humble terms; our re-
peated petitions have been answered
only by repeated injury. a prince,
whose character is thus marked by
every act which may define tyrant,
is unfit to be the ruler of Il free
people.
Nor have we been wanting in at
tention tO our British brethren.
We have warned them, from time
to time, Of attempts made by their
legislature to extend an unwarrant,
able jurisdiction over us. We have
reminded them Of the circumstan-
ces of our emigration and settle
ment here. We have appealed to
their native justice and magnanimi-
ty, and we have conjured them, BY
the ties Of our common kindred, to
disavow these usurpations, which
would inevitably interrupt our con
and correspondence. They,
too, have been deaf to the voice of
Justice and cOnsanguinity. We
must, therefore, acquicscc in the ne
,essity, which dcnomces our sepa-
'ation, and hold them, as we hold
he rest Of mankind, enemies i'll war
in peace, friends.
We, therefore, the representatives
Of the UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA, in GENERAL CON
1RESS assembled, appealing to the
Supreme Judge Of the World for
he rectitude Of our intentions, do
II the name and by the authority Of
he good people Of these colonies,
,olemnIy publish and declare, That
,hese United Colonies are, and Of
right ought to be, FREE AND lNDE-
STATES; that they are alb
solved from all allegiance to the
British crown, and that all political
between them and Great
Britain, is, and ought to be, totally
dissolved; and that, as FREE
AND IN D Il p h " ID h " ri
ST1TES, they have full power to
levy war, conclude peace, contract
establish commcrte, and
TO do all other acts and things
which INDEPENDENT STATES
may Of right do, And, for the sup
port of this Declaration, with a firm
reliance on the protection Of Dl-
VINE PROVIDENCE, we mutu-
ally pledge each other, our lives,
our fortunes, and our sacred honor, |
Hon. II. f. Peck, Ministcrresident
at Hayti, died at Port Au Prince
of fever, June 9th Mr.. Peck was
from Oberlin this State, having
bcpn one of the Professors in the
College 0, 5, journal,
One million pounds of coffee
were received at San Francisco, in
ten days up to the 9th,