The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-07-04
semny Adopted by the REPRESENTATIVES
Congress Assembled, on
JuIy 4th, &c, al PIliIadelphia,

/ For transportine as hcyaag s9
seas to be tried for pretended of
fenscs.
Tor abolishing the free systeEd
OF English laws in aeiga aoe5zag
province, ESTABLISHING therein ~
larglng It's boundaries, SO as 60
render it at once an example azAa
I'LL Instrument for Introducing t5ae
same absolute rule lnto these ooG-
onies.
For taking away our charters,
aholishing our most valuable
laws, ana altering funGazne1a tally
the powers Of our government.
For suspendIng cur own les5sla.
tuxes, and declaring themee1vea
invested with power TO leg5s1ata
Ro9 rs iu all eases vIaaSsoever.
He mas ab5Scatcd 80 eg1tsg.
here, declaring us out of his i1Eo~
section, azsd wag5ng var against
MS.
ze has pIundered CUR seas, rave
aged our coasts, burnt Cur towns,
and destroyed she 4iges Of our
people.
Ee is at this time transp
largc armies Of foreign nze4ce
aries TO complete the work ce
death, desoIat1on and tyranny, ale
ready Begun, with circanat aces
of cruelty aasa perady scarcely
paraISelea i1a she most kapha9olzs
ages, and totally university tae
lead d q civilized nation.
lie Aas ceas trained oar feg7ov
citizens, 68lsen captive GA 5Iae higz
seas, 10 bear arms against the11
ccnntrys 20 become the execution
eTs Of their friends ANA brethren
or 70 4a4I themselves by their
hands.
He has excited domestic zAsur-
sections aanozf sst ug, and has ess-
5e2Yored To brius on Ghe 1Mza3i.-
taAts oG Qua Frontiers she 2ae1ez-
less Indian savages, whose known
pule oR warfare IS an undistin-
galshed destruction OF ala ages,
sexes aid conditions.
In every stage OF these opDres.
sio1s VIC have petitioned for re-
dress, in the mast humh4e terms;
our repeated petitions hare been
answered only by repeated INJURY.
Al prince, whose character is thus
married by every act which may
define a tyrant is uaflt to be the
xu2er OF s. FREQ people.
NoR have we been wanting In at
teRtion to our Bgitish brethren.
We have warned them fro1n time
GO time, OF attempts made Toy their
Legislature to extend an unwar-
rantable Jurisdiction ovez MS. We
have reminded them OF the c1r~
cumstances Of our emigration and
settlement here. We have ap- /
peaIed 10 their native Justice and /
a1agua aIlizllity a4ad we have con-
5urcd them, by the ties OF our
ecznnlon kindred TO disavoxv 6hese
vssurpatiozas, which would ineVi- +
tahly interrupt our connections +
and correspond They toe, +
have been deaf to the voice of ius- /
tIce and eonsang guinity. We must, I
therefore, acqu5esce in the neces-
sfty which demands our gepara- I
t1o1, and held them as we hold I
the rest OF znankinss enemies IN
war, in peace, friends.
" = S1A1A1A SISs the representa-
tiyes OF the UNITED STATES OF
ia GENERAL CON-
GItESS assembled, appealing to
she Supreme Judge OF the World
fer the reeti4nde OF our inten-
tions, dc, In the name, and by the
OF the good peop1e OF
these colonies, solennly publish
and declare: That these United
Colonies arc, and of right ought
to no FREE AND INDEPENDENT
STATES; that they gre absolyed
from ali allegiance to the British
crown, and that political connec-
tions between then and the State
o9 Great Britain is, and ought to
be totally dtsoaveds and tlsat, as
E EE AND INDEPE END EET
STATES. they have full p0Uer 20
levy war, conclude peace, contract
establish commerce, and
10 all othea acts and things whioh
LNDEp DENT STATES may OF
light do. And, for The support OF
Isis declaration, and in fsrrn re-
sassee apaR Fhe protect5on of Di-
siite gr0ylnences We Inu1ually