The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1876-07-01
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He has obstructed the administration


for establishing judiciary powers.
He has made judges dependent on
his own will alone, for the tenure OF
their offices, and the amount and pay
ment of their salaries.
He has erected multitude OF new
officers, and sent hither swarms of Off
GERS to harass our people, and eat out
their substance. ~. ....
lie has kept among us in times OF
peace, standing armies, without the
consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the military
independent Of, and superior to, the
civil power.
He has combined, with others, to
subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to
our constitutions, 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 q mock trial,
from punishment, for any murders
which they should commit on the in
habitants Of these States
For cutting of our trade with all
parts of the world
For imposing taxes on us without
our consent
For deprivlng us, in many cases, of
the benefit of trial by jury
For transporting us beyond seas to be
tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free system of En-
glish laws in neighboring province,
establishing therein an arbitrary gov
ernment, and enlarging its boundaries,
so as to render it at once an example
and fit instrument for introducing the
same absolute rule into these colonies
For taking away our charters, abol-
ishing our most valuable laws, and al
tering. fundamentally, the forms of our
governments ..l
For suspending our own legislatures,
and declaring themselves invested with
power to legslate for us in all cases
whatsoever.
He has abdicated government here,
by declaring US out of his protection,
and waging war against US.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged
our coasts, burned our towns, and dee
stroyed the lives of our people.
He is, at this time, transporting large
armies of foreign mercenares to COM
plete the works of death, desolation and
tyranny, already begun, with circum-
stances of cruelty and pefidy scarcely
paralelled in the most barbarous ages,
and totally unworthy the head of civil
lized nation
He has constrained our fellow-citi-
zeDs, taken captive on the high seas
to bear arms against their country, to
become the executioners of their friends
and brethern, or to fall themselves by
their hands.
He has excited domestic insurrection
among us, and has endeavOred to
bring on the inhabitants of our from.
tiers, the merciless Indian savages,
whose known rule of warfare is an un-
distinguished destruction, of all ages,
sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these expressions,
we have petitiOned for redress, In the
most humble terms our repeated petit
tions have been answered only by re-
peated injury. A prince, whose char-
acter is thus marked by every act which
may define tyrant. is unfit to be the
ruler of free people.
Nor have we been wanting in our
attentions to our British bretherD. We
have warned them, from time to time,
of attempts by their legislature to ex-
tend an unwarrantabie jurisdiction over
us. We have reminded them of the cir
cumstances of our emigration and set
tlement here. We have appealed to
their native justice and magnanimity,
and we have coniured them, by the ties
of our common kindred, to disavow
these usurpatons, which would inevi-
table interrupt our connections and
correspondence. They, too, have been
deaf to the voice of justice and of con-
sanguinity. We must therefore, ac-
quesce in the necessity, which denoun"
ces our separation, and hold them, as
we, hold the rest of mankind, enemies
10 war, in peace, friends.
We, therefore, the representatives of
the UUITED STATES OF AMERICA, IN
GENERAL CONGRESS assembled, appeal
ing to the Supreme Judge of the World
for the rectitude of cur Intentions, do,
in the name, and by the Authority of
the good people of these colonies, SOL
emnly publish and declare, That these
United Colonies are, and Of right ought
to be, FREE AND INDEPENDENT sTATRs
that they are absolved from all allegi-
ance to the British crown, and that all
political connection between them and
the State of Great Britain, is, and ought
to be, totally Dissolved and that, as
FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES, they
have full power to levy war, conclude
peace, contract alliances, established
commerce, and do all other acts and
things which INDEPENDENT STATES may
of right do. And, for the support of
this declaration, with firm reliance
on the protection Of DIVINE PRovI>
DENCE,, we mutually pledge to each
other, our lives, our fortunes, and our
sacred honor.
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