Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-07-02

When, in the course OF human
events it becomes necessary for one
people to dissolve the political bands
which have connected them with an
other, and to assume among the
powers of the earth, the separate and
equal station to which the laws of ma
ture and of natures God entitle them,
a decent respect to the opinions 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 Gre
ator with certain inalienable rights:
that among these are life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness. That to Sc
cure these rights, governments are in
stituted among men, deriving their
just powers from the consent of the
governed; that, whenever any form of
government becomes destructive to
these ends, it is the right of the peo-
pie to alter or to abolish it, and to in
Stitute new government, laying its
foundations on such principles, and
organizing its powers in such form, as
to them shall seem most likely to eff
feet their safety and happiness. Pru-
dence, indeed, will dictate that gov
ernments long established 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 Suf-
ferable, than to right them by abol-
iShing the forms to which they are ac-
customed. But when a long train of
abuses and usurpations, pursuing in
variably the same object, evinceS a
design to reduce them under absolute
despotism, it is their right, it 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 necessity which
constrainS them to alter their former
systems of government. The history
of the present King of Great Britain
is history of repeated injuries and
usurpations, all having in direct OBJ
ject 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 public good.
| 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; and when so suspended, he has
utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other laws
for the accommodation of large dis
tricts of people, unless those people
would relinquish the right of repre-
! sentation in the legislature; d right
/ ineStimable to them and formidable
to tyrantS only.
He has called together legislative
bodies at places unusual, uncOmfort-
able, and distant from the depository
of their public records, for the sole
measure of fatiguing them into COM
pliance 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 longtime after
such dissolution, to cause others to be
elected; whereby the legislative powers
incapable of humiliation, have re-
turned to the people atlarge for their
exercise; the state remaining in the
meantime exposed to all the danger
of invasion from without and conyu-
SionS within.
He has endeayored to prevent the
population of these states; for that
purpose, obstructing the laws for nat
uralization of foreigners; refusing to
pass others to encourage their migra-
tion hither, and raising the conditions
of new appropriations of lands.
He has INSTRUCTED the administra-
tion 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 a multitude of new
offices, and sent hither swarms of Of
ficers to harass our people, and eat out
their substance.
He has kept among US in times OF
peace, standing armies, without the
consent of our legislature.
He has affected to render the mill
tary independent of and superior to,
the civil power.
He has combined with others, to
subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to
our constitution and unacknowledged
by our laws; giving his assent to their
acts of pretended legislation.
For quartering large bodies of arm
ed troops among US.
For protecting them, by a mock
trial, from any murders which they
should commit on the inhabitants of
these STATES