The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1876-07-01
Declaration of Independence of Uni
ted States.


When, in the course of human events,
1t becomes necessary, for 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
entitle them, decent respect to the
opinion of mankind requires that they
should declare the causes which impel
them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self>evi-
dent, 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 happiness. That, to secure
these rights, governments are institu-
ted among men, deriving their just pow
ers from 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 abolish
1t, and to institute a new government,
laying its foundations on such princi-
pies, and organizing its powers in such
form, as to them shall seem most likely
to effect their safety and happiness.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that
governments long established, should
not be changed tor light and transient
causes /; and accordingly, all experience
hath shown, that mankind are more dis
posed to suffer, while evils are suffer
abls. than to right themselves by abol-
ishing the forms to which they are &C
custOmed But, when long train of
abuses and unSurpatiOns, pursuing in
variably the same object, evinces de-
sign to reduce them under absolute de-
spotism, 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, in
direct object. the establishment of an
absolute tyranny over these States. To
prove this, let facts be submitted to q
candid world
He has refused his assent to laws the
most wholesome and necessary for the
public good.
He has forbl dden his Governors to
pass laws of immediate and pressing
Importance, unless suspended In their
operations till his assent should be OBJ
tanned and when so suspended, he has
utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other laws for
the accommodation OF large districts OF
people. unless those people would re-
linquish the right of representation in
the legislature (; a right inestimable to
them, and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative
bodies at places unusual, uncomforta =
BILE and distant from the repository of
their public records, for the sole pur-
pose of fatiguing them into compliance
with his measures.
He has dissolved representative
houses 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 pow
ers, incapable of humiliation, have re-
turned to the people at large for their
exercise the State remaining, in the
meantime, exposed to all the dangers of
invasions from without, and CONFUSION
within. So ...-.....
lie has endeavored to prevent the
population of these States for that
purpose, obstrueting the laws for the
naturalization of foreigners refusing
to pass others to encourage their migra-
ton hiths ar, and raising the conditions
Of new appropriations Of lands.