Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-03

He has combined with others to subiect us 70 .
Jurisdiction foreign to constitutions and un-
acknowledged by laws giving his assent to
their acts of pretended legislation:
For quarterng large bodies of armed troops among
us;
For protecting them, by mock trial, from pun
ishment for any murders which they should conn
NIT on the Inhabitants of these States;
For cutting off trade with all parts of the
world;
For imposing taxes on us without our 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 abolishing the free system of English laws
In neghboring province, establishing therein an
arbitrary government and enlarging its boundaries
so as to render 1t at once an example and fit in
strument for introducing the same absolute rule
into these colonies;
For taking away charters, abolishing our
most valuable laws and altering, fundamentay the
forms of our governments;
For suspending our legislatures and declar-
ing themselves invested with power to legisate for
us in all cases whatsoever
He has abdicated government here by declaring lis
out of his protection, and waging war against u.s.
He has pundered our seas, ravaged our 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
desolation, and tyranny, already begun with cir
cumstances of cruelty and perfdy scarcely paralleed
IN the most DarDarouS ages, and totally unworthy
the head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow-citizens taken cam
tive on the high seas, to bear arms against their
country to become the executioners of their friends
and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands,
He has excited domestic insurrection among US,
and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of
our frontiers the mercess Indian savages, whose
known rule OF warfare is an undistinguished destruc
tion Of all ages sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these expressions we have petit
"a mos farn 0ur
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,.
Nor have we been wanting in our attentions to
our British brethren. We have warned them from
time to time, of attempts by their legislature to
tend an unwarrantable jurisdiction u.s. We
have reminded them of the circumstances of
emigration and settlement here. We have appealed
to their native justice and magnanmity and we
have conjured them, by the ties of common kim
dred, to dsavow these usurpatons, which would In
evitahly interrupt connections and correspond
ence. They, too, have been deaf to the voice of
justice and consanguinty. We must therefore,
quesce in the necessity which denounces separa-
tion, 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
recttude of our intentions, do, in the name and by
the authority of the good people of these colonies,
solemnly 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 free and Independent states they have full
power to levy war, conclude peace, contract al
liances. establish commerce, and do all other acts
and things which independent states may of right
do And, for the support of this declaration, with
firm reliance on the protection of Divine Provi-
dence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives,
fortunes, and sacred honor.