TaÌˆgliche Omaha tribuÌˆne. [volume] (Omaha, Nebr.) 1912-1926, 1917-07-03

WHen, IN the course OF huTnan
events, it becomes necessary for one
people to dissolve the political bonds
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 Of natures God entitle
them, a decent respect to the opin-
ions of mankind requires that they
should declare the causes which i'm
pei them to the separation.
We hold these truths TO be self
evident: That all men are created
equal; that they are endowed by
their Creator with certain unalien-
able rights; that among these are
life, liberty, and the pursuit Of hap
piness. That, to secure these rights,
governments are instituted among
men, deriving their just powers from
the consent of the governed; that,
whenever any form Of government
becomes destructive of these ends,
it is the right Of the people to alter
or to abolish it, and to institute a
new government, laying its founda-
ton on such principles, and organiz-
ing it's powers in such form, as to
them shall seem most likely to eff
feet their safety und happiness.
Prudence, indeed, win dictate, that
governments long established should
not be changed for light and tran
silent causes; and accordingly all ex-
perience hath shown that mankind
are more disposed to suffer while
evils are siderable, than to right
themselves by abolishing the forms
TO which they are accustomed. But
when a long train Of abuses and
usurpations, pursuing invariably the
same object, eyinees q design to re-
duee them under absolute despotism,
it is their right, it is their duty, to
throw off such government, and to
provide new guards for their future
security. Such has been the patient
s~uferance Of these colonies; and such
is now the necessity which constrains
them to alter their former systems
OF government. The history Of the
present King Of Great Britain is a
history of repeated injuries and
usurpations, all having in direct OBJ
ject the establishment of an absolute
tyranny over these states. To prove
this, let facts be submitted to a
candid world.
He has refused his assent to laws
the most wholesome and necessary
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
obtained; 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
-ricts Of people, unless those people
would relinquish the right Of re-
presentation in the legislature-a
inestimable to them, and for
nidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative
at places unusual, uncomfort
and distant from the depository
If their public records, for the sole
purpose OF fatiguing them into COM
with his measures.
He has dissolved representative
repeatedly, for opposing, with
manly frmness, his ~invasions on the
Of the people.
He has refused, for a long time
lfter such dissolutions, to cause
'thers to be elected, whereby the
legislative powers, incapable Of an
Utilization, have returned to the peo
,le at large for their exercise; the
state remaining, in the mean time,
exposed to all the dangers Of in
from without, and convul-
ions within.
He has endeavored to prevent the
population Of these Statesj for that
obstrueting the laws for the
naturalization of foreigners; refusing
0 pass others to encourage their
ligration hither, and raising the
onditions Of new appropriations Of
ands.
He has DISTRACTED the administra-
on Of justice by refusing his as
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