Bisbee daily review., 1919-07-04

He has combined with others to subject to a Jurisdiction foreign to constitutions, and uF acknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legslation
 For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us;
 For protecting them, by a mock trial from pun shment for any murders which they should com- init on the inhabitants of these States;
 For cutting off trade with all parts of the world;
 For imposing taxes us. without consent;
 For depriving us in many cases of the benefits of trial by jury
 For transporting us beyond Seas, to be tried for pretended offences;
 For aboiShng the free system of English laws in neighboring province, establishing therein arbitrary government and enlarging its boundaries, so as to render it at once example and fit n- strument for introducing the absolute rule into these colonies;
 For taking away our charters all, 'Slng our most valuable laws and altering fundamentally the forms of our governmentS;
 For suspendhg our own legislatures, and declar- ing themselves invested with power to legislate for in all whatsoever
 He has abdicated government here by declaring us out of his protection, and waging war against us
 He has plundered seas, ravaged our coasts burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of people,
 He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death desolation, and tyranny, already begun with cir cumstances of cruelty and perdy scarcely paralleed in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation
 He has constrained our feow-citizens taken cap- tive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the eXecutioners friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands,
 He has excited domestic instruction among us and has endeavored to bring the inhabitants of our frontiers the mercilesS Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistngushed destruc ton of all ages, sexes, and conditions
 In every stage of these expressions have pet toned for redress in the. most humble terms: our repeated petitions have been answered only by re- peated injury. prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of free people
 n>ar have been wanting in our attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to bme, of attempts by their legislature to eX tend an unwarrantable 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 cOnjured them, by the ties of our common kin tired, to disavow these usurpations which would in- evitably interrupt our connections and correspond ence. They, too, have been deaf to the voice of Justice and consangunity. We must, therefore ac- uiesce in the necessity which denounces separa ;ion, 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 Soemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of right ought to be free and in- dependent states; that they abSOlved 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 as free and independent states they have full power to levy war, conclude peace contract al- dances, establish commerce, and do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, with q firm rel on the protection of Divine Provi- GCnce, rray pledge to each other our lives. fortunes, and our sacred honor.