The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-07-04

and distant from the repository OF their
public records, for the sole purpose Of
fatlguIng them into compliance with
his measures.
He has dissolved representative
houses repeatedly. for opposing. with
manly frmness, his inVaslons on the
rights OF the people.
He has refused, Tor long time after
such dissolutions, to cause others to be
elected; whereby the legislative pow
ers, incapable OF annihiiatton, have re-
turned to the peopie-at-iarge for their
exercise; the states remaining In the
meantime, exposed to oil the dangers 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 migra-
ton hIther, and raising the conditions
of new appropriations of land.
He has INSTRUCTED 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 Of
fees, and sent hIther swarms OF officers
to harass our people and eat out their
substance.
He has kept among us in time of
peace, standing armies, without the
consent OF our legislatures.
He has affected to render the MILL
tary Independent Of and superior to the
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.
Z For uuarterinE large bodies of armed
troops among US: for protecting them,
by mock trial, from punishment, Tor
any murders which they should commit
on the inhabitants OF these states:
For cutting of our trade with all
parts of the world:
For imposing taxes on US without our
consent:
For deorlving US. In many cases, OF
the benefit OF trial BIZ jury:
For transporting us beyond seas to De
tried for pretended offenses:
For abollshing the free system OF
English laws in q neIEhboring prov
vince. establishing therein an arbitrary
government, and enlarging Its boun-
darles, so as to render 1t at once an
example and fit instrument OF intro
ducing the same absolute rule into
these colonies:
For taking away our charters, abol-
Ishlng our most valuable laws and al
tering, fundamentally, the forms OF our
government:
and declaring themselves Invested
with power to legislate for us IN all
cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated government mere
by declaring us out OF his protection,
and waging war against us.
He has plundeTed our seas, raVished
our coasts, burned our towns ana de-
stroyed the lives OF our people.
He Is, at this time, transporting large
armies of foreign mercenaries to com
plete the works OF death, desolation ana
tyranny already begun, with clrcum-
stances OF cruelty and pertidy scarcely
paralleled in the most barbarous ages
and totally unworthy the head OF CIV
ilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow-citi-
zens, taken captive on the high seas. to
bear arms against their country, to he
come the eXecutIoners OF their friend;
and brethren or to fall themselves by
their hands.
He has excited domestic instruction
among us, and has endeavored TO bring
on the inhabitants OF our frontiers the
merciless Indian saVages whose known
rule OF warfare Is an undistlnSuished
destruction of all ages. sexes and con-
ditlons.
In every stage OF these expressions, We
have petltloned for redress In the most
humble terms; our repeated petitions
have been answered only By repeated
injury, whose character is thus marked
by every act which mag define ty-
rant, and is unfit to be the ruler OF
free people.
Nor have we been wanting In our
attentions to our British brethren. We
have warned them. from time TO time,
OF attempts by their legislature TO eX-
tend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over
US. We have reminded them. OF the
circumstances OF our emigration and
settlement here. We have appealed to
their native Justice and maEnAnimity,
and we have conJured them by the ties
OF our common kindred, to disaYow
these usurpatlons, which would inevi-
tably interrupt our connections ana
correspondence. They, too, have been
deaf to the voice OF justice and OF con-
sanEuinity. We must, therefore, ac-
Qulesce in the necessity which de-
nounces our separation. and hold them
as We nOld inc rest OF Inuuhl4ht SllU-
niles In war. in peace, friends.
We, therefore, the representatives or
the United States OF America. in gen
cral congress assembled, appealing to
the Supreme Judge of the world for the
recutudc OF our intentions, do. in the
name. and by the authority OF the good
people OF these colonies. solemnly pub
llsh and declare. That these United
Colonies are, and of right ought to be,
Free and Independent States; that they
are absolved from all aileelance ia the
British crown, and that all political
connection between them and the state
OF Great Britain Is, and ought 10 be to-
tally dissolved; and that rs free and In
dependent states they have fuIl power
TO levy war, conclude peace, contract
alliances, establish commGrce,and do all
other acts and things which independ-
cnt states may Of right do. And, Tor
the support OF this declaration, with Il
firm reliance on the protection OF Divine
Providence, we mutually pledge TO
each other our lives, our fortunes, and
our sacred honor
Remarkable Rescue.