The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-06-28

He has combined with others to subject US to
Jurisdiction foreign to constitutions, and un-
acknowledged 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 mock trial. from pun
ishment for any murders which they should COM
NIT on the inhabitants Of these States;
For cutting off trade with all parts Of the
world;
For imposing taxes without consent;
For depriving US, in many cases. Of the benefits
of trial by jury;
For transporting beyond seas, to be tried for
pretended offences
For abolishing the free system Of English laws
in neighboring province, establishing therein
arbitrary government, and enarglng Its boundaries,
so as to render 1t at example and fit in
strument for introducing the absolute rue
into these colonies;
For taking away our charters abolishing our
most valuable laws and altering fundamentally, the
forms Of our governments
For suspending our own legislatures and declar
ing themselves invested with power to legisate for
us In all cases whatsoever
He has abdicaed government here, by declaring us
out Of his protection, and waging war against u.s.
He has pundered our seas, ravaged coasts,
burned our towns and destroyed the lives Of our
people
He is at this time transporting large armies Of
foreign mercenares to complete the works of death,
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cumstances Of cruelty and perdy scarcely paralleed
in the most barbarous ages and totally unworthy
the head of civilized nation
He has constrained fellow citizens, taken cap
tive on the high seas to bear arms against their
country, to become the execuoners Of their friends
and brethren. or to fall themselves by their hands
He has excited domestic insurrection among us
and has endeayored to bring on the inhabitants Of
our frontiers the mSrciless Indian savages, whose
known rule OF warfare Is an undlstngushed destruc
ton Of all ages, sexes, and conditions
In every stage Of these expressions we have petit
toned for redress In the most humble terms
repeated petitions have been answered only by
peated injury prince whose character Is thus
marked by every act which may define tyrant, Is
unfit to be the ruler Of asfree people.
Nor have been wanting in our attentions to
our British brethren. We have warned them, from
time to time. of attempts by their legislature to
tend unwarrantabe 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 conjurcd them, by the ties of our common kim
dred, to dsavow these usurpatons, which would In
evitaby interrupt our connections and correspond
ence. They. too, have been deaf to the voice of
justice and consanguinty. We must, therefore, &C
quesce In the necessity which denounces our separa-
ton, and hold them, hold the rest Of mankind,
enemies In war, In peace friends
We therefore, the Representatives Of the United
States of America, in General Congress assembled.
appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the
rectitude of intentions, do, In the name and by
the authority Of the good people Of these colonies.
solemny publish and declare, That these united
Colonies are, and of right ought to be free and In
dependent states; that they are absoved from all
allegiance to the British crown and that all political
connection between them and the state Of Great
Britain Is, and ought to be- totally dissolved; and
that free and Independent states. they have full
power to levy war, conclude peace, contract al
lances, 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 the protection of Divine Provi-
dence we mutually pledge to each other our lives,
our fortunes and our sacred honor.