Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-07-04
Declaration of independence
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776,

WHEN, in the course of human events, 1t becomes
" necessary for one people to dissolve The political
Dahds which have connected them with another and
10 assume among the powers of the earth, tine sep
ar'te and equal station to which the laws of nature
ana OF natures God entitle tem decent respect to
the opinions of mankind requires that they should
"er''fr the causes which impe them to the separa-
ton.
We hold these truths to be sef-cvident: THAT all
men are created equal that they are endowed by
i''"ir Creator with certain unalienabe rights: that
"''"s lh'se are HE, liberty, and the pursuit of hap
pines" i''' to secure these rights governments are
INSTITUTED among men, deriving their Just powers
from ~" consent of the governed that, whenever
ANY t"r:n OF government becomes destructive of
'rSe '''S, it is the right of the people to alter or
w "'"'iS" ~ ava |" institute a new government
laying rs io';n,A!ion such principles and or
sini=ins lis powers in such FORM as to them shall
seem most likcl% effect their safety and happness
'"%hre lad''o' VIII dictate, that governments long
established SHOULD not be changed for light and
transient causes; and accordingly I'll; experience bath
Sf""" mat hG'"Eih! aEe more disposed suffer
while evils are SH'eii;bc, ,n to RIGHT themselves
bS aho''sh'ns HE forms to Which they arr acc,,s
'7h'Nh. ~'ut Nh"h cong Train Of abuses and
Hiiions. pursuing invariably the same Oh jrc evincS
IL design to reduce them under absolute tiespotsln
it is Ee'r right their :iuty 10 throw off s,c,
government, ma to provide guards Tor their
luiure county. Such has been the patient suf-
1crance OF these colonies and is now the neces-
sty which coStrainS them alter their former sys-
tens of government. The history OF the present
Ming OF Great Britain is history of repeated in
Jufes and usurpations, all having in direct object
the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these
States 10 prove this, let facts he submitted to Il
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
ell in their operation till his assent should be OBJ
tanned; and when so suspended, he has utterly
neglected to attend to Them
tie mas refused to pass other laws for the ac-
colnmodation Of large districts of people unless
those people would relnquish the right of represn
iat'on in the leeislaturea right nestmabe to Them
and formidable to tyrants only.
lie has called together legislative bodies at places
ln'sual uncomfortable, and distant from the do
pcsitcry of their public records for the sole, pur.
pose of faiguing them into compliance will, his
measure.
He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly.
for opposing, with manly frmness his iuvasions an
the rights of the people,
lie mas refused, for lnrg time after such dsse-
'tons, to cause others to be elected, whereby the
legislative powers, incapable of anniiiilaion have
returned to the people at large for their exercise:
he STATE remaining, in the meantime, exposed to all
the dangers OF inyasions from without and con-
vulsious within.
lie has endeayored to prevent the population of
these States for that purpose obstructng the laws
LOT the naturalization of foreigners; refusing TO
pass others to encourage their migration hthcr and
raising the conditions of appropriations of
!antx
He has obstructed the administration of Justice
cy refusing his assent to laws for establishing i,rl
cary powers.
tie has made judges dependent OH his will alone
Tor the tenure of their Offices and the amount and
payment of their salaries
He has erected multitude of new offices and sopt
sither swayms of officers to Epr,ss orr pcn.l and
cat cut their substance
nc mas kept among us in times OF i,"'', s,,'.''.:
'rlnes, without the consent or our T." r.
afTSCtpl tn "a;
- superior TO, the civil ~'.Ysr