The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-07-04

EEng1kh JAWS IN 0etgnD0rtNG PROV
Iince: Establishing therein an arbt-
Etrary government, and epiargang is
bohndsFiss 50 as 90 render Y once nee
| introduciqg tie, sarhe Aksoi nte rule
into fness colonies:
Iaboli3Ring sohr most Valuable laws.
land Altering fundamentally the forms
I of our goyernments;
| For suspending our own leStala-
lures. and declaring themselves m
vested with power to legislate for us
lin a1l cases Whatsoever.
| He has abdicated government here
by declaring us out of his protection
and waging war against US.
He has plundered our seas. raw
aged our coasts, burned our towns,
and destroyed the Hives Of our peo-
He is, at this time. Transporting
large armies of foreign mercenartes
Ito complete the works of death. des-
olution and tyranny. already begun.
with cfrcumstances of cruelty and
perfry scarcely baralleled in the
l,most barbarous ages. and totally un-
worthy the head OF a civilized nation.
! He has constrained our fellow cit
LIENS. taken captive on the high seas.
| to bear arms against their country,
| to become the executioners OF their
friends and brethren. or to fall them
selves by their hands.
He has excited domestic fnsurrec-
ton amongst US, and has endeaV-
lored to bring the inhaoitants OF our
frontiers, the merciless Indian saw
ages. whose known rule OF warfare
Is an undisttnguished destruction OF
IAN ages, sexes and conditions.
-A..e 49, 49,
we have petitioned for redress, In the
most humble terms; our repeated Pc
tltfons have been answered only by
! repeated injury. A prince whose
character is thus. marked by every
act which may define a tyrant Is un-
fit to be the ruler Of free people.
Nor have. we been wanting I'm at
tentions to our British brethren. we
have warned them, from time TO time
OF attempts, by their Legislature, 70
extend an unwarrantabie- .1urlsdic-
ton over u.s. We have reminded them
of the circumstances of our emtgra-
fion and settlement here. We~haye
appealed to their native Justice and
i:magnanimity; and we have con5ured
them. by the ties of our common kim
dred, to disayow these usurpations,
which would Inevitably interrupt our
and correspondence. They
too. have been deaf to- the voice OF
Justice and. of consangutnity. WE
must, therefore, aequtesce in the ne
cessity which renounces our separa-
ton, and hold them, as we hold the
rest of mankind, enemies in war. IN
peace, friends...r .stses
we. therefore, the representatives
Of the United States of America, In
general congress assembled, appeal
ling to the supreme judge OF the
world for the rectitude of our inten-
ltfons. do In the name and by the au-
l.thority of the good people OF these
colonies. solemnly publish and de-
clare. that these united colonies are.
and Of right ought to be. free and
states; that theysare aO-
solved from all allegiance to the
British crown, and that all poltical
connection between them and the
state of Great Britain is, and ought
Ito 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 firm reliance
! on the protection of Divine ProNi-
dence, we mutually pledge to eacn
other our lives, our fortunes ana our
sacred honor.
- JOHN HANCOCK.
New Hampshire-Jostah bartlett,
VIM Whfpple, Matthew Thornton.
Massachusetts Bay-Saml. Adams,
John Adams, Robt. Treat Paine. FL
bridge Gerry.
Rhode Island. &c.-step. Hopkins.
eonnecticut7 Roger sherman. VIM.
Williams, Sam'el Huntington, Oliver
walcott.
tingston, Frans Lewis. Lewis MOTIFS
New Jersey-Richd. Stockton, J1o.
Witherspoon,F rans- HopKinson, JONI
Hart, Abra. Clark.
Pennsylvania-Robt. Morris, Ben
jamin Rush, Benja. Franklin. John
Morton. Geo. Clymer, Jas smith.
Geo. Taylor, James Wilson, Geo.
Ne p6se;1aware-caesar Rodney, Geo.
Paca. Thos. stone, Charles Carol OF
oa V1ripeinia-Geo. wythe. Richard
Henrv Lee. TIL. Jefferson. Benja.
harrison. Thos. Nelson. Jun, Fran
| cis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton.
North Carolina-Wni. Hooper. JOS
eph Hewes, John Penn.
South Carolina-Edward Rutledge.
Thos. Heyward, Jun. Thomss Lynch.
Jun.. Arthur Middleton.
Georgia-B Button Gwinnett, Lyman
Han, Geo. Walton.
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