The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1903-07-04
Declaration Of independence.

In CoNGREss, July 4th, l776.
The Unanimous Declaration Of he Thd
teen Ui,ited States Of 4me-io,t
When, in the course of human events,
it becomes necessary for one people to dis
solve the political bands which have con
nected them with another, and to assume
among the powers Of the earth the separate
and equal station to which the laws Of IA
ture and nature God entities them, a de
seeat 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 selt-evident
That all men are created equal; that they
are endowed BY their Creator with certain
inalienable rights; that among these are life,
liberty and the pursuit OF happiness. That to
secure these rights, governments are institut
ed among men, deriving their just powers
from the consent Of the governed that when
ever any form of government becomes de
structiye of these ends, it i the right Of
the people to alter or abolish it, and 10 in
stitute new government, laying it, foun-
dalton on such principles. and organizing
its powers in such form as to them shall
seem most likely to effect their safety aud
happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate
that governments 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 sufferable, than "a
right themselves BY abolishing the forms
to which they are accustomed. But when
a long train of abuses aud usurpations
pursuing invariably the same object, evinees
a design to reduce them under absolute
,iespotism, it is their right, it is their duty,
90 throw off such government, and to pro-
vide new guards for their future security
Shuch has been the patient suferance q
these colonies. and such is now the neces-
sity which constrains them to alter their
former systems of government The his
tory Of the present King Of Great Britain
Is history of repeated injuries and usurp-
atoms, all having in direct object the es-
Enlistment 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 pub
lie good
He has forbidden his Governors 10 pass
laws of immediate and pressing Importance,
unless suspended in their operation ill his
assent should be obtained: and when 80
suspended he has utterly neglected to at
tend TO them. He has refused TO pass
other laws for the accommodation Of large
districts of people, unless those people /
would relinquish the right Of representation
in the Legislature right inestimable to
them, and formidable TO tyrauts only
He has called together legislative b,iies
al places unusual, uncomfortable aud dis
tant from the repository Of their public re
cords, for the sole purpose of fatiguins
them into compliance with his measures
He has dissolved representative houses
repeatedly, for opposing with manly firm
ness his invasions on the rights of the peo-
pie.
He has refused for a long time after
such dissolution, to cause Others TO be
elected, whereby the legislative powers,
incapable of humiliation, have returned to
the people at large for their exercise; the
State remaining in the meantime exposed
to all the dangers of invasion from without
and commissions within
He has endeavored 70 prevent the pop
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obstructing the laws of naturalization Of
foreigners; refusing to pass Others to en-
courage their migration hither and raising
the conditions Of new appropriations of
lands.
He has obstructed 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 sal
aries.
He has erected a multitude of new Of
fees, and sent hither swarms Of officers, to
harass our people and eat out their sub
stance.
IlC has hCpA ahAOh- uof az tihiNo Va
peace, standing armies, without the con
sent 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 jurisdiction foreign to our constitu-
ton, 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 mock trial,
from punishment for any murders which
they should commit on the inhabitants of
these States:
For cutting off our trade with all 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 us beyond seas, to be
tried for pretended offences: