The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-07-04

ne has constrained our fcllo,
citizens, taken captive ON the his
seas TO bear arms against their conn
Try, to become the oxecutioners n
Their friends and brethren, or 10 6I
themselves by their hands.
lie has excited domestic instruction
amongst us,and has cndeayored to brin,
on the inhabitants of our frontiers IN,
meerclless Indian sayages whose know,
rule otwarlure is an indistinpuishnd do
tions '''N ''''''
~ every stage Of these expressions
we nave petltlonrd tor redress, in III,
most humble terms our repsated nstt
uon' nave been answered only by re-,
P'ated INJURY a prince whose chaac.
ter IS thus marked by every act which
may define a tyrant, is unfit to be ruler
Of free people.
Nor have We been wanting in At.
!ehtlon to our British brethren We
nave warned them, from time to time.
oiattempts made by their Legislature
TO extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction
over us We have reminded them of
me circumstances of our emigration and
settlement here. We have appealed TO
their native justice and magnaniminty
and we have conjmed them by the ties
OF our common kindred, to dsayow
these usurpations, which would inoyita.
bly, interrupt our connections and cor.
respondence They, too, have been deaf
to.the voice Ofjustice and ofconsenquini.
ty. We must therefore, acauiesce in
the necessity which denounces our SEP.
aratlon, and hold them, as we hold the
rest of mankind, enemies in war 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 ntcn.
tons, do, in the name, and by the au.
thorlty of the good people of these colo
MES, solemnly publish and declare THAT
these united colonies are, and of right
ought to be- Free and independent
States that they are alb,
solved from all allegiance
to the British crown, and that all Pc.
lltical connection between them and
the state of Great Britain is, and ought
to be totally dissolved; and that. as
lree and Independent States, they have
full power to levy war, conclude peace
contract alliances, establish commerce
and to do all other acts and things
which Independent States may of right
do. And for the support of this declare
ton with firm reliance on the protec
ton of Divine Providence, we mutually
pledge each other, our lives our for.
tunes, and our sacred honor.
JOHN HANCocE.
New Hampshire - Josiah Bartlett
William Whpplc, Matthew Thornton.
Massachusetts Bay--Samuol Adams,
John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, FL
bridge Terry
Rhode Island -- Stephen Hopkins,
Ellery.
Delaware-Caesar Rodney George
Read, Thomas Mexican.
Connecticut-Roger sherman, Samuel
Huntington, William Williams Oliver
Wolcott.
Observation-Disclosures Chase, William
Poco, Thomas Stone, Charles Carrolton,
Of Carrolton.
New York--William Floyd, Philip
Livingstone, Francis Lewis, Lewis
Morris.
Virginia-Georgo Wythe, Richard
Henry Lee Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin
Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis
Iightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton.
New Jerscy--Richard Stockton, John
Witherspoon, Francis lIopkinson, John
Hart, Abraham Clark
Pennsylvania-Robct Morris, Bcnja-
min Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John
Norton George Clymcr James Smith,
teorgc Taylor, James Wilson, George
Ross.
North Carolina--Wiliam Hooper DO
;cph Ilcwes. John Penn.
South northumberland Rutlrdge,
Thomas Haywood, Jun, Thomas Lynch,
Jun, Arthur Middleton,
Decentralization Gwinnett Lyman
Hall, George Walton
RrsoIrd That copies of the Declora-
ton be sent to the several assemblies,
and committees, or coun-
ellis of safety, and to the several com
handing officers of the Continental
troops that it be proclaimed in each OF
the United States and ut the head OF
the army,