The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-07-05
THE PAL ALBUM,
SATURDAY, juicy s, 1878.


SATURDAY, JULY s, 1873.
DECLARATION or IHDEPEND-
,1ssEsae ENCE.
tsua oll-s ses'as
IN coson1ss, THURSDAY JULY 4, 1776.
xgrSssbly TO the order 81 the
day, fhs Congress resolved itself
into ) committee Of the whole, to
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 70 . declarsr
ton, which they desired him 10 re-
port. THE committee consisted Of
jefferson, Franklin, John Adams,
Sherman and R. R. Iiyingston.]
The Declaration being read, WAS
agreed to, as follows: -.
4 DECLARATION,
By the Representative Of the
United States, IN, Congress A.
sembled. -rf s.
When, in the course Of human
events, Il becomes necessary far 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, . 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 AL men are created
equal; that they are endowed by
their Creator with certain unaiena-
BILE 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 powersfrom
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 organs
izing its powers in such form, as to
them shall seem most likely to effect
THAR safety and happiness. Pru-
dence, indeed, viii dictate that gov
ernments long established, should
not be changed for light and tran
silent causes; and accordingly, al
experience hath shown, that man
kind are more disposed to safer;
while evils are su6erable, than to
right themselves by abolishing the
forms to which they are accustomed.
But when . long train Of abuses
and usurpations, pursuing invaria-
bly, the same object, svinoss . de-
sign to reduce them under absolute
despotism, it is their right it ID
their duty, to throw Of such gov
eminent, and to provide new guards
for their future security. Such has
been the patient suferance Of these
colonies, and such is now the neces
sity which constrains them TO alter
their former systems Of government
The history Of the present King Of
Great Britain is . history Of repeat
cd injuries and usurpetions, all hav.
ing, in direct object the establish
ment Of an absolute tyranny oven
these States. To prove this, lei
facts be submitted to . candid
world:
He has refused his assent to lawn
the most wholesome and necessary
for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors
to pass laws OF immediate and press
ing importance, unless suspended
in their operation tin his assent
should be obtained; and when &c
suspended, he has utterly neglected
to attend to them. ''-''
He has refused to pass other lawn
for the accommodation Of largs
districts Of people, unless thoss
people would relinquish the right O
representation in the Legislature;s
right inestimable 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 fatiguine
them into compliance with his meas
ures. ~
He has dissolved Representative
houses repeatedly, for opposing
with manly frmness, his inyasion'
on the rights Of the people.
He has refused, for . long tim
after such dissolutionA to caus
others to be elected; whereby tn
Legislative powers, incapable of an