The History of the War in America, Between Great Britain and Her Colonies from Its Commencement to the End of the Year 1778; In Which Its Origin, Progress, and Operations Are Faithfully Related ... to Which Is Added, a Collection of (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1779 edition. Excerpt: ...by the Representatives of the UNITED STATES of AMERICA, J- Geneva CoxGiiEssa/tmiW. July 4, 1776.. WHEN in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the.powers of the earth nounced all political connection with this countrv. Such are 1776. the unhappy consequences of civil contention. Such the effects v--v---/ that earth the separate and equal station to which the lawsUr' nature and of Nature's God intitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impelthem to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are lise, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; and whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish, it, and to institute a 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 sasety and happiness. Prudence indeed will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms te which they are accustomed; but when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their..