El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-04
THE DECLARATION OF
INDEPENDENCE
OF the United
States Of America.

He has combined with others to sub
ject US to jurisdiction foreign to our
constitution and unacknoWledged Dy
our laws; giving his assent TO theH
acts of pretended legislation
For quartering large bodies of troops
among US
For protecting them, by mock trial,
from punishment for any murders
which they should commit on the in
habltantS of these states
For cutting off our trade with all
parts of the world;
For imposing that which is without
our consent;
For depriving US, in many cases, Of
the benefit of trial by jury;
For transporting US beyond seas, to
be tried for pretended offences;
For abOlishing the free system Of
English law in neighboring province,
establishing therein an arbitrary gov
eminent and charging its boundaries
so as to render it AZ cnce an example
and fit instrument for introducing the
same absolute rule into these colonies;
For taking away our charters, abOl-
ishing our most valuable laws, and al
tering fundamentally the forms OF our
government;
For suspending our own legislatures,
and declaring themselves invested with
power to legislate for US in all cases
whatsoever.
He has abdicated government here by
declaring US out of his protection, and
waging war against US.
He has plundered our seas, rayaged
our coasts, burned our towns and de-
strOyed the lives of our people.
He is al this time transporting large
armies of foreign mercenaries, to COM
plete the works of death and desola-
ton, and tyranny, already begun, with
circumstances OF cruelty and perfidy
scarcely paralIeIed in the most barbar-
Gus ages and totally unworthy the head
Of a civilized nation
He has constrained our fellow citi-
zens, taken captive on the high seas,
to bear arms against their country, to
become the eXecutiOners or their friends
and brethren or to fall themselves by
their hands.
He has excited domestic insurrec-
lions among US, and has endeavored 10
bring on the inhabitants of our from
tiers the merciless Indian savages,
whose known rule of warfare is an IN
distinguished destruction of all ages,
sexes, and conditions.
In every stage OF these expressions
we have petitioned for redress in the
most humble terms; our petitions have
been answered only by repeated in
jury. A prince whose character is thus
marked by every act which may define
a tyrant, is unit to be ruler OF a free
people.
Nor have we been wanting in atten-
ton to our British brethren. We have
warned them, from time to time, of at
leQpLS lQau6 DN their LEGISLATURES u
extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction
over US. We have reminded them OF
the circumstances of our emigration
and settlement here. We have appealed
to their native justice and magnanimity
and we have cOnjured them, by the ties
OF our common kindred, to disaYow
these uSurpatiOnS, which would inev-
itably interrupt our connections and
correspondence. They, too, have been
deaf to the voice Of justice and cOnsan-
guinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce
separation, and hold them, as we hold
the rest of mankind, enemies in war
in peace, friends.
We, therefore, the representatives Of
the United States of America, in gen.
eral congress assembled, appealing to
the Supreme Judge of the world, for the
rectitude of our Intentions, do, IN the
name Of these colonies, sOlemnly pub
lish and declare that these united col
onies are. and OF good right ought to
be, free and independent states; that
they are absOlved from all allegiance to
the British crown, and that all politi-
cal connection between them and the
states of Great Britain is, and ought
to be, totally dissolved; and that, as
free and Independent states, they have
full power to levy war, conclude peace
contract alliances, establish commerce,
and do all other acts and things which
independent states may of right do
And for the support Of this declaration,
with a firm reliance on the protection
of Divine Providence, we mutually
pledge to each other our lives, our for
tunes, and our sacred honor.
Signed by order and in behalf OF
Adopted July 4, 1776, lThursday).