The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-04
THE NEW DE(LtRtTTON or
INDEPENDENCE.

When in the course Of human events
Il becomes nj cessary for one depart
ment of the Federal Government TO
dissolve the bonds which have held 1t
subordinate to another and to assume
the separate and equal station to which
the Constitution entities II, decent re-
spect to the opinions of mankind re-
quires that we should declare the
causes which impel us.
When a long train OF abuses and
usurpations, pursuing invariably the
same object, evinces a design TO reduce
us under absolute despotlsm. It is our
right, 1t Is our duty to throw off such
government and to find new grounds
for our future security. The history
Of the present Executive Of the United
States of America is a history OF re-
peated invasions and usurpatlons, all
having in direct object the establish
ment of an absolute tyranny over these
houses OF Congress. To prove this let
facts he submitted n a candid world:
He has refused his assent to laws the
most wholesome and necessary for the
public good because said laws did not
originate with him.
He has forbidden Senators and Rep
resentatives to pass laws Of immediate
and pressing Importance because he
had his own projects Of law to press
unto enactment.
He has held the so.called legislators
in session at times unusual and uncom-
Portable for the sole purpose OF fatiguing
them into compliance.
He has combined with others 10 SUBJ
iect our constituents TO taxation for a
foreign war undertaken on his indi.
vidual initiative for purposes unknown
to our Constitution and unacknowledged
by our laws, assuming therefor the
constitutional power which belongs TO
u and not to him. and our firmest
protests against such assumption have
drawn from him no answer save his
sardonic and contemptuous grin.
In the hottest season Of the year.
when the Congress elections are i'm
pending and the absolute necessity OF
dissolution and return to our several
homes is apparent TO the mcanest I'M
Outstanding, he has treated us with a
cruelty scarcely paralleled in the mos.
barbarous ages and totally unworthy
the head Of a civilized nation; and
when we have petitioned for redress in
the most humble terms our repeated
petitions have been answered only by a
particularly exasperatlng protrusion OF
his peculiarly odious and offensive chin.
An Executive whose character is
marked by every act which may define
a tyrant is UNIT to be the ruler of a
free and independent legislature.
We. therefore, Senators and Repre-
sentatives in Congress assembled, do
IN the name and by the authority OF the
Constitution of the United States
solemnly publish and declare, That
these two houses of Congress are and
of right ought to be FREE AND IN.
DEPENDENT coordinate department
o. the Federal Government that they
are dissolved from all subservience 10
the Executive that they have full
power 20 do without MS interfe re nee
all acts and things which they may OF
right do under the Constitution
And for the support Of this Declare
ton. with a firm reliance on DIVINE
Providence ard the Common Sense Of
the American People, We mutually
pledge TO each other our lives. cur for.
tunes and our sacred honor
wAsHISoroH. July I, 1914