Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-07-04

The Immortal Declaration That Made
Us an Independent Nation.
An Afirmance of Rights That Exist Now
as in l776.


people to dissolve the political bands
which have connected them with an
other, and to assume among the pow
ers of the earth the separate and equM
station which the laws of nature and
of natures God entitle them, a decent
respect to the opinions of mankind re-
quires that they should declare the
causes which impel them 10 the
separation.
We hold these truths to be self
evident, that all men are created
equal; that they are endowed by
their creator with certain un-
alienable rights; that among
these are life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness; that to secure
these rights governmentsare Instituted
among men, deriving their just powers
from the consent of the governed; that
whenever any form of government be-
comes destructive of these ends it Is
the right of the people to alter or abol-
ish 1t and TO institute new govern
ment, laying its foundations on such
principles and organizing its powers
ia such form rs to them shall seem
most likely To effect their safety and
happiness. Prudence, indeed, will
dictate that governments long
established shall not be
changed for light and transient
causes; and accordingly, all experience
hath shown that mankind are more
disposed to suffer, willie evils are suf-
ferable, than to right themselves by
abolishing the forms to which they
are accustomed. But when long
train of abuses and usurpations, pur-
suing invariably the same object,
evinces design to reduce them under
absolute despotisni, 1t is their right, 1t
is their duty, to throw off such
government, and to provide new
guards for their future security. Such
has been the patient sufferance 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 Brit ain is history of repeated
injuries and usurpations, all having,
indirect object, the establishment of
an absolute tyranny over these states.
To prove this, let facts be submitted to
candid world. He has refused his
! assent to laws, the most wholesome
and necessary for the public go)d.
He has forbidden his governors to
pass laws of immediate and pressing
Importance, unless suspended in their
operation Till his assent should be OBJ
tanned, ana when so suspended he has
utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass oth,r laws for
the accommodation of large districts OF
people unless those people would re-
linquish the right of representation in
! the Legislature; right inestimable to
them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together the legisla-
tive bodies at places unusual, uncom-
Portable, and distant from the depos-
tories of their public records, for the
sole purpose of fatiguing them into
compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved representative
bodies repeatedly for opposing with
manly firmness his invasions on the
the rights of the people,.
He has refused for long while
after such dissolutions to cause o hers
to be elected; whereby the legislative
powers, incapable of annihilation
have returned TO the people at large for
their exercise; the state remaining
In the meantime exposed To all the
danger of invasion from without and
commissions within.
He has endeavored to prevent the
population of these states; for that
purpose obstructing the laws for the
naturalization of foreigners; refusing
TO pass others to encourage their mi
grafton hither, and raising the condi
tons OF new appropriations of lands.
He has obstructed the administra
ton OF Justice by refusing his assem-
for laws establishing judiciary powers
ne mas made Judges dependent or
| ENr hn
Offices and the amount and payment
of their salaries
lie has erected multitude of new
, offices and sent hither swarms of off,
GERS to harsss our people and eat on,
their substance.
He has kept among us in times OF
peace standing armies without the con.
sent of our Legislature.
he has affected to render the mill.
tary independent of and superior &c
the civil power.
lie has combined with others to sub.
Ject us to jurisdiction foreign to OH,
constitution and unacknowledped NV
our laws, giving his assent to their
acts OF pretended legislation.
For quartering large bodies of armed
troops among us:
f0r protecting them, by mock
triai' from punishment for apy mur.
uers which they should commit on
the inhabitants of these states:
FOR cutting off our trade with ali
parts Of the world:
For imposing taxes on us without
our consent:
for depriving us in many cases OF
the benefits of trial by jury:
For transporting ia beyond seas h
oe srieu ior pretended offenses:
For abolishing the free system o,
English laws in neighboring prov
ince' establishing therein an arbiirarv
government and enlarging its bounds.
RES, so as TO render 1t at once an on
ample and fit instrument for intro.
ducing the same absolute rule In these
colonies: 40 'iAess
For taking away our charters. abol.
lsning our most valuable laws and
altering fundamentally the powers Of
our governments. VI
For suspending our own legislatures
anu declaring themselves invested
win powers to legislate for us i'm nil
cases Whatsoever. "''
ne has abdicated government here
oy declaring Us out of his protection
ana waging war against us.
he mas plundered our seas. ravaoad
our coasts, burnt our towns and DO
str1yed the lives OF our people. ~
lie Is ut this time TRANSPORTING Ia ro,
armies OF foreign mercenLries to cnS
plete the Wnrka ne dn..L ~ SoAh