The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-07-06
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
Unanimously Passed by the Congress of the
Thirteenth United States of America,
July 4th, 1116.

July 4th, 1776.
NJ CHEN, in the course of human events
M it becomes necessary foI ono people
If 30 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
entitle them, a decent respect to the opin-
ions of mankind requires that they should
declare the causes which impel them to
the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evideut,
that all men are created equal that they
are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable 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 con-
sent of the governed and that whenever
any form of government becomes de-
structive of these ends, it is the right of
the people to alter OF to abolish it, and to
institute a new government, laying its
foundation on such principles, and organ
izing its powers i'll such form, as to them
shall seem most likely to effect their safe
ty and happiness. Prudence, indeed,
Will dictate that governments long estab-
lished should not be changed for light
and transient causes and, accordingly,
all experience hath shown that mankind
are more disposed to suffer, while evils
are sufferable, than to right themselves
by abolishing the forms to which they
are accustomed. But when long train
of abuses and usurpations, pursuing in
variably the same object, evinces a de-
sign to reduce them under absolute des-
potism, it is their right, it is their duty,
to throw off such government, and to
provide new guards for their future Sc
curity. Such has been the patient suf-
ferance of these colonies, and such is
now the necessity which constrains them
to alter their former systems of govern
ment. The history of the present king
of Great Britain is history of repeated
injuries and usurpations, all having, III
direct object, the establishment of an
absolute tyranny over these states. To
prove this. let facts be submitted to a
candid world.
He has refused his assent to laws the
most wholesome and necessary for the
publie good.
laws of immediate and pressing impor-
tance, unless suspended in their opera
ton till his assent should be obtained !;
and when so suspended, he has utterly
neglected to attend to them. He has
refused to pass other laws for the accom-
mediation of large districts of people,
unless those people would relinquish the
right of representation in the legislature
"a right estimable to them, and formid-
able to tyrants only.
He has called together Legislative bod
les at places unusual, uncomfortable, and
distant from the repository of their pub
lie records, for the sole purpose of fatig-
uing them into compliance with his
measures.
He has dissolved representative nous
es repeatedly, for opposing with manly
firmness his invasions on the rights of
the people
He has refused, for long time after
such dissolutions, to cause others to be
elected whereby the Legislative powers,
incapable of annihiliation, have returned
to the people at large, for their exercise;
the state remaining, in the mean time,
exposed to all the dangers of invasion
from without md commissions within.
He has endeavored to prevent the
population of these states for that prlr-
pose obstructing the laws for the natur-
alization of foreigners refusing to pass
others to encourage their migration
hither, and raising the conditions of new
appropriations of land.
He has obstructed the administration
of justice, by refusing his assent to laws
for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made judges dependent on his
will alone, for the tenure of their Offices,
and the amount and payment of their
salaries.
He has erected multitude of new
offices, and sent hither swarms of Off
GERS, to harress our people and eat out
their substance.
He has kept among us, IN time of
peace. standing armies, without the con
sent of our legislatures.
lie has affected to render the military
Independent of, and superior to, the
civil power.
H has combined with others to SUBJ
ject us to jurisdiction foreign to oul
constitution, and unacknowledged by
our laws giving his assent to their acts
of pretended legislation.
For quartering large bodies of armed
troops among US;
For protecting them, by mock trial,
from punishment for any murders which
they should commit on the inhabitants
of these states
For cutting off onr trade with all parts
of the world;
For imposing taxes on us without our
consent;
For depriving lis, in many eases. oi
the benefit of trial by jury
For Transporting us beyond seas, to be
tried for pretended offenses /;
For abolishing the free system Of Eng