The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-07-04
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776.

erica. When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary
them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the
separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Ma
lures God entities them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind
requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the
We hold these truths to be sefevdent, that all men are created
equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain ~unalenable
ness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among
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these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and
to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles
and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem 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 are more disposed to suffer, while evils are suferabe
than to right themselves by abohShlng the forms to winch they are
accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursu-
absolute Despotism, 1t is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such
Government CS rr net and i. to provide !has new Guards "a tss for ro their future sg e security ny
the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems OF
history of repeated injuries and usurPations, all having in direct OBJ
jct the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and
pressing Importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large
districts of people, unless those people would reGnquish the right of
Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimabe to them and
formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, un-
comfortable and distant from the depository of their public Records,
for the sole purpose Of fatigung them into compliance with his meas
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing
with manly frnness his invasions on the rights Of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause
others 10 d ecCtedj whereby te Legislative powers, incapable II Al
nihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the
State remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion
He has underworld to prGvent the population Of these States; for
refusing to pass others to encourage their migrahons hither, and raising
the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of
their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hithcr swarms
of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies with
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He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction for
cgn to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his
Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Protecting mtctm them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any
Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offenses;
For aboishing the free System of English Laws in a neighboring
its Boundaries so as to render it at once IN example and fit instrument
for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolshing our most valuable Laws,
and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves
invested with power to legislate for u in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring u out of his
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns,
"O He is at at this time tim TRANSPORTING ng large Armies of foreign Mercen-
aries to complete the works OF death, desolation and tyranny, already
begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perddy scarcely paraneed In
the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized
nation.
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 instructions amongst us, and has en-
deavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the mercless
Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undstinguished
destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Expressions We have Peitioned for Red
ress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been ans
wered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus
marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler
of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren.
We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legisla-
ture to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have re-
minded 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 kindred to disavow
these usurpatons, which would inevitably interrupt our connections
and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice