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

WHEN, in the of human events, 1t becomes
w necessary for people to dissolve the political
bands which have connected them with another, and
to assume among the powers Of the earth, the sep
arate and equal station to which the laws of nature
and OF natures God enttle them decent respect to
the opinions of mankind requires that they should
declare the which mpe them to the separa
ton.
We hold these truths to be selfevdent: THAT all
men are created equal that they endowed by
their Creator with certain unaenable rights that
among these life, liberty, and the pursuit Of hap
piness. That to these rights, governments
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 government,
laying its foundation such principles and or
ganzing its powers in such FORM as to them shall
most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
Prudence indeed, will dictate, that governments long
established should not be changed for light and
transient causes and accordingly all experience hath
shown that mankind disposed to suffer
while evils siderable. than to right themselves
by abolshing the forms to which they accus-
toned. But when long train OF abuses and uSur-
pations pursuing invariably the same object evinces
q design to reduce them under absolute despotism,
1t 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 suf-
ferance Of these colonies and such is the neceS-
sty which constrains them to alter their former sys-
TENS of government The history of the present
King of Great Britain Is history of repeated In
jures and usurpations, all having In direct object
the establishment of absolute tyranny these
states To prove this, let facts be submitted to
candid world.
He has refused his assent to laws the most whole
some and necessary for the public good
He has forbidden his governors to pass laws Of
immediate and pressing Importance, unless suspend
ed In their operation till his assent should be OBJ
tained and when suspended, he has utterly
neglected attend to them.
He has refused to pass other laws for the
commodation of large districts Of people, unless
those people would relnqush the right Of represen
tation In the legisature-a right inestimable to them
and formidable to tyrants only
He has called together legislative bodies at places
unusual uncomfortable, and distant from the de-
posory Of their public records, for the sole pur-
pose of fatiguing them into compliance with his
measure
He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly,
for opposing, with manly Grmness his invasions on
the rights Of the people.
He has refused, for a long time after such disso-
utons, to cause others to be elected, whereby the
legislative powers, incapable Of humiliation, have
returned to the people at large for their exercise;
the State remaining, In the meantime, exposed to all
the dangers of invaSons from without and con-
vulsions within.
He has endeavored to prevent the population OF
these States; for that purpose obsructing the laws
for the naturalization of foreigners; refusing to
pass others to encourage their migration hther and
raising the conditions OF appropriations of
lands.
He has obstructed the administration Of justice,
by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judi
ciary powers
He has made judges dependent his will alone
for the tenure Of their Offices, and the amount and
payment Of their salaries.
He has erected multitude of Offices and sent
hither swarms of officers to harass people and
eat out their substance.
He has kept among in times Of peace, standing
armies, without the consent Of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the military Independent
of, and superior to, the civil power.