The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-07-04
THE BIG DOCUMENT OF THIS DRY, THE GRAND
OLD DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE OF /770

When, the human events, becomes necessary
for people to dissolve the political bands which have
neced them with another and to the
OF the EARTH the separate and equal station which the laws of
nature and of natures God ente em decent respect to
the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the
causes which impel them to separation
We hold these truths to be selfevdent all
created equal that they endowed by their Creator with
certain unaenable rights that among these fe liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness That to these rights
enments instituted deriving their just
from the consent of the governed that whenever form of
becomes destructive of these ends it the right
of the people alter abolish it. and institute
government laying its foundation on such principles and
ganzng its powers such FORM them shall most
likely to effect their safety and happiness Prudence indeed
will dictate that long established should not be
changed for light and transient and accordingly all
experience has shown that mankind disposed to su
fer while evils suerabe than right themselves by
aboshng the forms to which they accustomed But when
long train of abuses and usrpaons pursuing invariably the
object evinces design to reduce them under absolute
desposm it is their right is their duty to throw off such
government and to provide guards for their future
it Such has been the patient sueance of these colonies
and such the necessity which consrans them to alter
their systems The history pres
King of Great Britain history of repeated injuries and
usurpatons all having in direct object the establishment of
absolute tyranny these states To this let facts
be submitted to a candid world:
He has refused his assent to law the wholesome and
necessary to the public good
He has forbidden his to pass laws of immediate
and pressing Importance unless suspended in their operation
till his assent should be obaned and when suspended he
has utterly neglected to attend to them
He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation
of large districts of people, unless those people would ren
quish the right of representation in the Legislature right
estmabe to them, and formidable to tyrants only
He has called together Legislative bodies at places
u uncomfortable and distant from the depository of their
public records for the sole purpose of fatgung them into
compliance with the measures
He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly for
posing with manly rnes his nvasons the rights of the
people.
He has refused for long time after such dissoutions
others to be elected whereby the legislative powers
incapable of annhlaon have returned to the people at large
for their EXERCISE the state remaining the meantime
posed to all the danger of invasion from without and convu
sions within.
He has endeavored to prevent the population of these
ates for that purpose obsructng the laws for naturaza
ton of foreigners refusing to pass others to encourage their
migration hther and raising the conditions of appropa
tions of lands.
He has obstrueted the administration of Justice by
fusng his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers
He has made judges dependent his will alone for the
of their Offices and the and payment of their
salaries
He has created multitude of Offices and hther
of officers to haass people, and eat out their sub
stance
He has kept among u.s. times of peace standing armies
without the consent of our Legislature
He has affected to render the military Independent Of and
superior to, the civil power.
He has combined with Others to subject iurisdic-