The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1870-06-30

lie mas created multitude Ol new
Offices, aud sen, hithcr swtrms of olli-
GERS TO hariss our people, AMI cat out
their substance.
lIc has kept among US in time OF
peace standing armies, without the
consent of our legislatures.
lie has affected to rcn Ter the mill
tary independent Of, aud superior to,
the civil power.
lie has combined, with others, 10
subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to
our constitution, and unacknow,cdgcd
10y our laws giving assent to their
acts OF pretended legislation.
4 For quarieriDg large bodies Of armed
troops among US
For protecting them, by mock
trial, from punishment for any mur-
dcrs which they may commit on the
inhabitants of these states.
For cutting oil our trade from all
parts OF the world.
For imposing taxes on US without
our consent.
For depriyinS Us, in many cases, Of
the tria! by jury
For transporting II, beyond seas 70
be tried for pretended offences.
For ubOli>hing the free systcm of
English laws in II neighbOring province.
establishing therein an arbitrary gov.
crnmcnt, aud enlarging its boundario,
so as to render il at once an example
aud fit instrument for introducing the
same absolute rule into these colonies
For taking away our charters, abol.
i>hlus our most valuable laws. and
altering, Fundamentally, the forms Of
our governments.
For SuSpcnding our own legislatures.
ana declaring themselves inqcstcd with
power 10 leg slate for Us in all case,
whatsoever.
lie has ablicatra government here.
by declaring us oIt OF. his protection.
aud wagiLg war dcain,t us.
lie has pluudoroi our seas, ravagcl
our coasts, burnt our towns, aud de-
stroYcl the lives of our people.
llo Is, at this tim,, transporting
large armies OF foreign merccucrics to
complete the works of death, drsola-
tion. and tyranny, already begun, with
circumstances OF crrcliy AMI rcr;ily
scarcely parallel in the most harbarou,
ages, aud totally unworthy the head
Of Il civilized nation.
lie has constrained our fcllow-ct
2cnS, taken captive on the high seas.
% bear arms against their country. t.
become the cxecUtioncrs of their friends
and brethren, or to fall themselves by
their hands.
He has excited domestic insurrcc
tiouS among us. aud has cudcavurcd
10 bring on the inhabitants Of our
frontiers, the mcrciless Indian savascS.
whose known rulc of warfare is au
undislinguishcI destruction Of all ages.
sexes, and cJnIiti5us.
In every stage OF these expressions
We have pelitioncl for redress in the
most humble terms. Our repeated
petitions have been answered oulv by
repeated injury. \ prince, whose
character is thus marked By every act
which may define a tyrant, is unfit to
he the ruler Of free people.
Nor have We been wanting in atten-
ton to our British brethren. We have
warned them, from time to time, OF
the attempts Of their legislature, to
extend an unwarrautable jurisdiction
over us. We have reminded them oi
the circumstances of our emigration
and settlement here. We have ap-
pcaled To their native justice and mag
nanimity, aud We have COMIC ured them,
by the ties OF our common kindred, to
| Isavow these usurpations, which
would inevitably interrupt our connec.
iions and correspondence. They, too,
have been deaf to the voice of justice
and Of consanguinimity. We must,
therefore, acquiesce in the necessity
which dcnounccs our separation, and
hold them as we hold the rest of man
kind, enemies in wa, in peace, friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives
of the United States Of America, in
General Congress Assembled, appealing
to the Supreme Judge Of the world
for the rectitudc Of our intentions, do,
10 the name, and by the authority OF
the good people of these colonies,
solemnly publish aud declare that these
United Colonies are and of right ought
to be, free and independent States
and that they arc absolved from al
allegiance to the British crown, and
that all political connection between
them and the state Of Great Britain
is, and ought to DO totally dissolved
and that, as free aud independent
States, they have full power to levy
war, conclude peace, contract alliances,
establish commerce, and to do all other
acts aud things which independcn,
States may Of right do. Aud for the
support of this declaration, with u
iirm reliance on the protection Of Di-
vine Providence, We mutually pledge
to each other our lives, our fortunes
and cur sacred honor.
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