Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-07-03
IN CONGRESS JULY 4, 1916.

When In the course of human events,
1t becomes necessary for one people
to dissolve the political bands which
have connected them with another,
and to assume among the powers of
the earth, the separate and equal sta
tion to which the Laws of Nature and
of Natures God entities them, a de-
cent respect to the opinions of man
Kind requires that they should de-
clare the causes which impel them to
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 unalienable
Rights, that among these are Life.
Liberty. and the pursuit of Happi-
ness. That to secure these rights,
Governments are instituted among
Men, deriving their just powers from
the consent of the governed, that
whenever any Form of Government
becomes destructive of these ends, 1t
is the Right of the People to alter or
Government, laying its foundation on
such principles and organizing its
powers In such form, as to them
shall seem most likely to effect their
Safety and Happiness. Prudence, in
deed, Will dictate that Governments
long established should not be
changed for light and transient caus-
es; and accordingly all experience
hath shewn that mankind are more
disposed TO suffer, while evils are
siderable, than to right themselves
by abolishing the forms to which
they are accustomed. But when a
long train of abuses and usurpations,
pursuing invariably the same Object,
evinces a design to r-Iuce them I'M
der absolute Despotism, it 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
necessity which constrains them to
alter their former Systems of Govern
ment. The history of the present
King of Great Britain Is a history of
repeated injuries and usurpations, all
having in direct object the establish
ment of an absolute Tyranny over
these States. To prove this. let
'ldcts 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 ana press
ing Importance, unless suspended In
their operation till his Assent should
be obtained 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. right
inestimable to them and formidable
to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative
bodies ut places unusual, uncomfort-
able, and distant from the depository
purpose 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 long time, af-
ter such dissolutions, to cause others
to be elected; whereby the Legisla-
tive powers, incapable of Annihila-
ton. have returned to the People at
remaining in the meantime exposed
to all 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
Naturalization of Foreigners; refus-
=. ing to pass others to encourage their
migrations hither, and raising the
conditions of new Appropriations OF
Lands.
AiC opstiutNpu sht
ton OF Justice, by refusing his Assent
to Laws for establishing Judiciary
Powers.
He has made Judges dependent on
his VIII alone, for the tenure of their
Offices. and the amount and payment
Of their salaries.
He has erected multitude of New
Offices, and sent hither swarms o!
Officers to harass our people, and cal
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 tc
the Civil power.
He has combined with others Il
subject us to a jurisdiction foreign t.