The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-07-01
DOCUMENT that
MADE A nation
Text of the Immortal DecIara-
ton of independence With
Which All Americans Should
Be Familiar.

IA ONOAS01 ~ OONOAAO0 AAONO00ebA AOA'
one people to dissolve the politi7
cal bands which have connected them
with another, and to assume, among
the powers of the earth, the separate
and equal station to which the laws
Of nature and natures God entitle
them, a decent 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 self-evi-,
dent-that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Crea-
tor with certain inalienable rights;i
that among these are life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness. That to Sc.
cure these rights, governments are in
stituted among men, deriving their
DUST powers from the consent of the
governed; that whenever any form Of
government becomes destructive of
these ends, 1t is the right of the peo.,
pie to alter or to abolish it, and to
institute new government, laying it's
foundation on such principles, and or
ganizing it's power in such form as to
them shall seem most likely to effect
their safety and happiness. Provi-
dence, indeed, will dictate that gov
ernments long established should not
be changed for light and transient!
causes; and, accordingly, all expert,
ence hath shown, that mankind are
more disposed to suffer, while evils
are sufferable, than to right them
selves by abolish1ng the forms to-
which they are accustomed. But when
long train of abuses and usurpations,'
pursuing invariably the same object,
evinces a design to reduce them un-
der absolute despotism, it is their,
right, it is their duty, to throw of
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 history of repeat
ed injuries and usurpations, all hav-I
ing, in direct object, the establish
nent Of an absolute tyranny over
these states. To prove this, let facts
be submitted to candid world: i
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 and pressing
Importance, unless suspended in their
operation till his assent should be OBJ
tanned; 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 these people,
would relinquish the right of repre-
sentation in the legislature; q right
inestimable to them, and formidable
to tyranny only.
He has called together Legislative
bodies at places unusual, uncom7
Portable and distant from the depos-,
itory of their public records, for tho
sole purpose of fatiguing them into
compliance with his measures. i
He has dissolved representative
houses repeatedly for opposing with,
manly frmness his invasidlhs on the
rights of the people.
He has kept among US, in time Of
peace, standing armies, without the
consent Of our legislatures. !
=, He has affected to render the mill
tary Independent of, and superior to
the civil power.
He has combined, with others, to
subject US to jurisdiction foreign to
our constitution, 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 a mock trial,
from punishment, for any murderq
which they should commit on the in,
habitants of these states; 80.
For cutting of our trade with all
parts Of the world;
For imposing taxes on ue without