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Show f InteTupt our connection and corresponded Wf, toot have peen deaf to the .voice of Juhtbe aad ecnaan-gutsl'therefore, jc- F quMre in the necessitiy which denounces our separation, and hold them, ag we bold the rest of mankind ar. in peace, friends. We therefore, the representatives of the I niled States of America, In gen-rcjngress assembled, appealing to re aupieme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do. Ifi the name and by the authority of the good ptople of these colonies, solemnly publish, aad declare, that these uni led c domes are, and of right ought to be, fre and independent states, that they are abaolwd from all allegiance to .he britiMh crown, and that all po-t- 'c at mnnection between them and the ta'e of Great Britain is and ought to be totally dissolved, and that, as f e sad .ndepemient states, they hare Tj'I potter to levy war, conclude alliances, estaolish p(aie (optruc n mnetce and do all other acts and th ns wh'rh independent states- - muy And for the support of of right do this tlei Liation, with a firm reliance on the roteulon of Divine Providence, we imi'uaily p'odge to each other our iiws, our fortunes, and our sacred JOHN HANCOCK. liopor President of Congress and Delegate from Massachusetts. . - al rt-- Trow A oirrt m. Behold what-- a great fire a little matter kindleth! Senator Sumner's speech on the Alabama question, which excited only passing notice here at that time, set all England ablaze. The reason of thla Is plain. The English people have been constantly deceived by Americans traveling In that coun- , Jp tjr I - f - I J ' jjj II & 4 , f 1 - ' . IIE Declaration of Independence was the grandest docu- meat ever penned by human hand, Th orlglnnl doco- meDt 18 UU pr9' served TOhe gov- archives eminent at Washington where It Is guarded ntkht and day as the most sacred relic ot our Infancy as a nation. It has been printed and reprinted as It should be. Every American should Know U by heart. Every foreigner coming to our shores should familiarize himself with tt before enter. Ing upon the privileges of citizenship. Yet tt la aafe to say that It Is not read- much nowadays. Fifty years sgo the reading of the declaration was a part the part-H- if every Independence Day celebration. Of late dtcadee the custom haa disappeared almost entirely. It ought to be revived. No celebration of tbe day ahould pass without Ita being read and without Ita hlatory being re-to- ld. o ' - , - The Immortal document was dratted by Thomaa Jefferson, amended aligbtly by hla colleagues of the committee of the Continental Congress, snd reported and adopted on July 4. 1776. On Juna 7th of that year Richard Henry Lee. of Virginia, offered In the name of hla atate a resolution In congress: "That these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent atatea.M Thla resolution ' was seconded by John Adams, ot Massachusetts; tha debate upon which began on tha following day, and continued two days. On July 2. J776, Lea's resolution was called up. and delegates from twelva colonies (New York not voting) unanimously . declared "that theee united olonlea are, and of right ought to be, free and Independent states. But at tha declaration was not reported and adopted until July 4th, the anniversary of independence waa fixed on that day. Tha document, which bad been relegated to a committee for preparation. Is as follows: When, In the course ot human cventa. It becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which bave connected them with another, and to assume, among tbe powers of ths earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of naturt and of nature's God entitles them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the cause which impel them to the separation. , j. We hold these truth to be self- - vl- - vVUeJ ' -- V vr ' 1 I X ' THE OLD STTLU dent: that all men. are created eqtml. that they art tndowed by their Creator with certain Inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to aecur these fights, governments hre Instituted among men, deriving their just power from the consent of the gov-- . erned; that whenever any form of government bceomedestructlvot these and. It la the right of the people to Iter and abolish tt, and to Institute a new government, laying Ita foundation on such principle, and organiilng Its powers I such form, as to them shall teem most lively to elect their safety try at to the real state ot feeling toward them in the United States. There are but few Americans who are republicans or democrats to the core; and wben they go abroad antf dine at the tables of English monarchists they shed their Americanism with alacrity, and toady to the Ignorance and bigotry ot their entertainers, and asseverate that tbe warmest fraternal feelings are cherished by the people of the United States for their English brethren," whereas tbe fact is, there is a strong d and feeling in America of resentment or hostility to Great Britain. Do not misunderstand us. We are not for war with any nation; on the contrary, we are for building up this nation in wealth, in civilisation, in refinement, in political strength, in military power, in all things that go to make us broad and tall and great; and then we are for having this nation, la th majesty of ita might, stand for peace, for humanity and a common brotherhood. Is there not, at last, to be realized on earth the conception of a missionary nation a people too great and too numerous to be anything else but magnamlmoua and kind and loving? Let ue give the pulsations ot the mighty heart of thle nation to the welfare of the world, and settle all petty national quarrels In a spirit characteristic of a generous and a mighty people. New York Ledger. deep-seate- and happiness, prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established ahould not be changed for light and transient esutea; and accordingly ail experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils art sufferabia, than to right themselves' by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when long train of abuse and usurpations, pursuing invariably the tame object, evinces a desire to reduce them under absolute depotisra, tt It their right, tt Is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. Such ha been the patient aufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrain them to alter their former ayatema of government The history of the present King of Great Britain la a record of repeated Injuries and usurpations, all having In direct object the establish menf of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be eubmitted to a candid world. He has refused his assent to lawe the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden hla governors, to pass law of Immediate and pressing Importance, unless suspended In their operation till hla assent should be obtained; and when so suspended he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other law for the accommodation of large, district of people unlesa those people wonid relinquish the right of representation in tha legislature a right inestimabl to them, and formidable to tyrants only, lie has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from thidepoeltory of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with hi$ measures. , He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing, with manly firmness, his Invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused, for a long time after such dissolution, to cause others to be elected, whereby the legislative powers, incapable of have annihilation, returned to the people at large for fhelr exerc'se, the atate remaining, in the meantime, exposed to all the dangers of Invasion from without and convulsions within. He has enoeavorad to prevent the population of these states Jor that purpose obstructing the taws for ostuuUzatlon of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the condition of new appropriations ot lands. He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to taws for establishing judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his will alone, ror the tenure of their offices, nd the amount and the payment of their salaries.' He b,3 erected s multitude of hew offices, and sent hither swarms of officers, to harass our 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 re Jer the military Independent of and superior to the civil power. He baa combined with others to subject oa to a Jurisdiction foreign to oar constitntlos, and unacknowledged by our law, giving hi assent to their act of pretended legislation: For quartart&g large bodies of armed troops among us; for protecting them, by a mock trial, from punishment tor any murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these states; tor cutting Off our trade with all parts of the world; for Imposing taxes on ns without our consent for depriving u In many easea, of the benefit of trial by jury; for transporting ns beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenser for abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitary government, and enlarging ita boundaries so as to render tt at once an example and fit Instrument for Introducing the same absolute rule Into these colonies tor taking away our charter, abolishing 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 us In aTl cases' whatsoever. He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out ot his protection, and waging war against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He Is at thla time transporting Urge armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with Circumstance of cruelty and perfidy scarcely parallsled in the moat barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilised nation. He has constrained our fellow citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the of their friends and executioner brethren, oi to fall themselves by their hands. He has excited domestic insurrections among tit. and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants ot our frontiers the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction ot all ages, sexes and conditions. In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress In the most humble terms, - ' AY of glory! welcome day! Freedom's banners greet thy ray; See! how cheerfully they play With thy morning breeze. On the rocks wher pilgrims kneeled. where squadron On t the height wheel'd, When a tyrant' thunder peald O'er th trembling seas. apirit fill All th echoes of .our bill, All th murmurs of our rills. Now the storm is o'er, O, let freemen be our sons; And let future Washingtons Riae. to lead their valiant ones, Till there' war no more. t ' , th patriot's hallow'd rest, By By tbs warrttr' gory breast, Never let our grave bo pressd L-- who v dee;xta throne; By By the Pilgrim' tolls and cares. By their battles and their prayer. By their ashes. let our heirs "Bow to thee alone,. n THE NEW STYLE, our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince whose chancier is thus marked by every act whch may define a tyrant ia unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Nor have we been wahting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them, from time to time, of attempt by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over ns. We have reminded them of the circumstances ot our emigration and settlement her. We have appealed to their native Justice and magnanimity, and w have C injured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations which Would - Inevitably X7 W. Ol.br.ta, the day we celebrate as commeoior prabe-woitb- y a.tng one of the mast heruk and the bisstruggles for libeHl tort of the world. Atter years of discouragement and d. feat, yea: a when hope seemed dead, HEN Freedom' rtiid vstuu the undertaking of the hand trorn her moon- - fut of bra re men appealed ia every way tain he'ght too much for them, the light came, Unfurled broke away and the.sua-shtne-of- u t the clouds to the cass streamed in upon their air. tvimusl broken and dismembered hearts She tore the azure and fortunes. robe of night. With literally nothing left to begin fl A And set th stars with with eveithtng baorificed upon - of glory thet. the altar of their cmiutrr, with the foe ' She mingled with formidable. ri h re.speiud on land and tt gorgeous d w s all men, sa and known and tiled of was The milky baldric Of the skies. dark Colonists the for outlook the And striped its pure, palest 1 white almost beyond pre-- ( and With streakings of the morning light, But then their sublime couredent Then, from his mansion in the suit. age never faltered, their determination She called her eagle hearer down. kiuw no yielding, their hopes were And gave into his mighty hand, high and their ambitions limitless. The symbol of her chosen land. Suirdi!', cheenly' and bravciy they went to woik to reconstruct and reMajestic monarch of the cloud habilitate out of tie Wteck of the disout- Who rearst aloft thy regal form. integrated r mains of a monatchtal To hear the tempest trumping loud. horns a an republic Independent post And see the lightning lances drivfor the homeless, and a land and a en. country that should he of the people When strive the warriors of the and for the people. W ho ehaW tell of the bnrd work, the storm, of dark days, the weary hours, the ach"And roils the thunder-druheaven ing heads and tireiT hands that this Child of the sun! to thee 'tie given day, this day, the day of all To guard the banner of the free, the days of all the years of the history To hover in the sulphur smoke Who of this great nation, represent! To ward away the battle-strok- e. shall tell of the anxieties, the appreAnd bid Its blendings shine afar. hensions, the sleepless hours of dark-neLike rainbows on the cloud of war. and the alert hours of daylight The harbingers of victory! through which that unequaled band of patriots passed during the first months of Independence, PREDICTIONS OF JOHN ADAMS after the declaration when they threw off at once and fordefcxtraet front a Letter to Bis Wife, ever the British yoke,, denied and fied the mother country, flung away Joty S, 1770. their swaddling clothes and sprang Into Philadelphia, July S, 1776. the arena to fight again, if need be, Had a declaration of independence to suffer, to toil, to strive to develop been made seven months ago. It would and to bring Into a glorious fruition have been attended with many great this wonderfully beautiful Idea of and glorious effect. We might, before American Independence! this hour; hav formed alliance with One day, one object, one spirit, on masstates. We should have foreign hope, one glory, and to make the most tered Quebec, and been in possession of this day, to fill it brimful of life, of Canada. good cheer and a good time genlight, You will, perhaps, wonder how such erally should be the purpose of every a declaration would have influenced American citizen who calls our affairs In Canada; but. If I could responsible this beautiful country his home. write with freedom, I could easily And tt Is a day for powder and canconvince you that It would, and non, bonfire, crackers and torpedoes, explain to you thp manner how. Many and small boys and g imes and uproargentlemen In high stations, and of ious fun; a day for long strolls great influence have been duped, by through quiet meadows and along the ministerial bubble of commissionshady lints; a day for soldiery, and a ers, to treat; and In real, sincere ex- day for sentiment, and In Its honor let pectation of this event, which they so us burn powder and blow horns and fondly wished, they have been alow make the very clouds vibrate with the and languid in promoting measures for reflex action of our patriotic enthuthe reduction of that province. Others siasm. New York Ledgpr. there are In the colonies who really wished that' our enterprise In Canada THE SAME OLD STORY. would be defeated; that the colonies might be brought into danger and distress between two flres, and be thus Induced to submit. Others really wished to defeat the expedition to Canada, lest the conquest of it should elevate the minds of the people too much to hearken to those terms of reconciliation which they believed would be offered us. These Jarring views, wishes and designs oeetsloned an opposition to many salutary measures which were proposed for the support of that expedition, and caused obstructions, embarrassments, snd studied delays which have finally lost us the province. All these causes, however, in conjunction, would not have disappointed us if tt had not been for a misfortune which could not have been foreseen, and perhaps could not have been prevented I mean the prevalence of the smallpox among our troops. Thla fatal pestilence completed our destruction. It la a frown of Providence upon us. which we ought to lay to heart. But, on the other hand, the delay of this declaration to thl time has many great advantages attending it The hopes of reconciliation which were fondly entertained by multitudes of honest and though shortsighted and mistaken people, have been gradually, and at last totally extinguished. Time has been given for the whole people maturely to consider the great question of Independence, and to ripen their Judgment, dissipate their fear, and allure their hopes, by discussing it In newspapers and pamphlets by debating It in assemblies, conventions, committees of safety and Inspection in town and county meetings, as well as in private conversations! bo that the whole people, In every colony, have now adopted tt as their Own act. This will cement the union, and avoid those heats, and perhaps convulsions, which might have been occasioned by such a declaration six months ago. ' i ij But the day is past The second day of July, J776, will be a memorable epocha In the history of America. I am apt to believe that tt will be celebrated by succeeding generations, as th great Anniversary FestlvaL It k( ought to be commemorated, aa the day it of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp, shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonflres and Illuminations from one end of the continent to the other, from this time I A Badly Off m P,ror. forward forever. The Cynic Well,-,!knew tt would Ton may think me transported with result as it has. The Pessimist Hows enthusiasm; but I am not. 1 an well thaft The Cynto Oh, no sooner do aware ot the toll and blood and treas-arethmagazine drop to 10 cents than so tt will cost ua to maintain this many spring into existence that a per-ao- n and defend declaration, and support ia broke if he .trie to buy them these states. Yet, ' through mil tbe ali , ; u mi gloom, J can see the raya of light and Hdf 1 can seo that I th end A more glory; wooden monument ha been erect- - m all worth the means, and that ed over George da Maurler'e than v ,t r grave; posterity,, will .triumph, although yon over th place, that Is, la Hampetead n it , and I may rue, which I hop w shall churchyard, where the casket contain- - i not. ., 1 i - 1 ingjhta ashes haa buried. , A j! tu fcj ) nxy , r J 'jty m red-lett- er ss g, thy stars In their courses'' smite his ears, Blait his arm. and wrest his bar From the heaving tide? On our standard, lo! they burn. And, when day like this return, Sparkie o'er th soldier't urn Who for freedom died. God of armies! did God of peace Vfc if there 'is any day more dear than another to the heart of every patriot! eitUci. of this beautiful land of ours,' It i Independence Day Fourth of July y. ene-mifs- in ' , A Wtbitrr Ones bile Mr. Webster was addressing the senate the senate clock commenced striking,' but Instead of strikto strike ing twice at 2 p." more than cessation forty itbout j, wfr8 turned to tbe times. All ere siclock aad Mr. Webster-remained lent until th dlck had struck about tha twenty, when be thus appealed to I out chairT,Mr. President, the clock of order! ,1 bar the floor!" Argo-tou- t. t i ; - aeea yoa before. Judge I think I hav had that honor, you bv Prisoner honor. 4 ahaved your honor last week. Judge Twenty yean. , at 1118 ha .ns.j, ,r' 4 c-- , . |