Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-03
Declaration of independence
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1875

WTHEN, in the course of human events, 1t becomes
W necessary for people to dissolve the political
0ands 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 entitle them, decent respect
the opinions of mankind requires that they should
declare the causes which impel them to the separa
ton.
We hold these truths to be self-evident THAT all
men are created equal; that they endowed by
their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that
among these life, liberty and the pursuit of hap
pness. That to secure 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
to abolish it, and to institute new government,
laying its foundation such principles, and
ganizing its powers in such form. 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 more disposed to suffer
while evils suferable, than to right themselves
by abolishing the forms to which they are accus-
toned But when long train of abuses and usur-
pations pursuing invariably the object evinces
design to reduce them under absolute despotsm,
it 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
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
juries and usurpatons, all having In direct object
the establishment of an absolute tyranny these
states. To prove this let facts be submitted to a
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
tanned; and when SO suspended, he has utterly
neglected to attend to them
He has refused to pass other laws for the ac-
commodation of large districts of people, unless
those people would relinquish the right of represen
taton in the legislature right nesmable to them,
and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places
unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the de-
postory 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 frmness, his invasions
the rights of the people.
He has refused, for a long time after such disso-
lutions to cause others to be elected whereby the
legislative powers incapable of annhiIation, have
returned to the people at large for their exercise: :
the State remaining in the meantime, exposed to all
the dangers of invasions from without and con-
vusions within.
He has endeavored to prevent the population of
these StateS for that purpose obStructng the laws
for the naturalization of foreigners refusing to
pass others to encourage their migration hither 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 on his will alone
for the tenure Of their offices, and the amount and
payment of their salaries
He has erected multitude of new offices, and sent
hither swarms Of officers to harass orr people and
eat out their substance.
He has kept among us 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