The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-07-03

kind disposed to suffer, while evils suf-
ferable than to right themselves by aboshing the
forms to which they are accustomed. But when &
long train of abuses and usurpatons, pursuing in
varably the object evinces design to reduce
them under absolute Despotism, 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 sufferance of these Col
onies and such now the necessity which constrsins
them to alter their former Systems of Government
The history of the present King of Great Britain
is history of repeated injuries and usurpations
al having in direct object the establishment of an
absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this
let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws the most
wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of
immediate and pressing Importance, unless suspended
their operation till his Assent should be obtained
and when so suspended he has utterly neglected to
attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accom-
mediation of large districts of people unless those
people would relinquish the right of Representation
in the Legislature, right inestmabe to them and
formidable to tyrants only.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Stand
ing Armies without the Consent of legislatures
He has excited domestic instructions amongst us,
and has endeavoured to bring the inhabitants of
our frontiers, the merciess Indian Savages, whose
known rule of warfare is an undstinguished destruc-
ton of all ages, sexes and conditions. In every
stage of these Expressions We have Petitioned for
Redress in the most humble terms Our repeated
Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury
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 British brethren. We have
warned them from time to time of attempts by their
legislature to extend an unwarranable jurisdiction
over us. We have reminded them of the circum-
stances of our emigration and settlement here. We
have appealed to their native justice and magma
nimty and we have conjured them by the ties of
common kindred to disavow these usurpations. which
would inevitably interrupt connections and cor
respondence They too have been deaf to the voice
of justice and of consangunity. We must therefore.
acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our
Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest OF
mankind Enemies in War. in Peace Friends.
WE THEREFORE, the Representatives OF the
United States of America, in General Congress, As
sembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge OF the
world for the rectitude of intentions, do in the
Name and by authority of the good People OF these
Colonies soemny publish and declare, That these
United Colonies are: and of Right ought to be Free
and Independen 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 as Free and Independent States, they have
full Power to levy War; conclude Peace contract Al
lances establish Commerce, and to do all other
Acts and Things which Independent States may OF
right do And for the support of this Declaration,
with firm reliance the protection OF Divine
Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our
Lives our Fortunes. and our sacred Honor