Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . DECLARATION OP INDEPENDEITCE tyranny, already begun, with circum- Britain is, and ought to be, totally dis- stances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely solved; and that, as free and independent paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and States, they have full povcer to levy war, totally unworthy the head of a civilized conclude peace, contract alliances, estab- nation. lish commerce, and to do all other acts and He has constrained our fellow-citizens, things which independent states
Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . DECLARATION OP INDEPENDEITCE tyranny, already begun, with circum- Britain is, and ought to be, totally dis- stances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely solved; and that, as free and independent paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and States, they have full povcer to levy war, totally unworthy the head of a civilized conclude peace, contract alliances, estab- nation. lish commerce, and to do all other acts and He has constrained our fellow-citizens, things which independent states may of taken captive on the high seas, to bear right do. And for the support of this arms against their country, to become the declaration, with a firm reliance on the executioners of their friends and breth- protection of Divine Providence, we mu- ren, or to fall themselves by their hands, tually pledge to each other our lives, our He has excited domestic insurrections fortunes, and our sacred honor,among us, and has endeavored to bring Signed by order and in behalf of the on the inhabitants of our frontiers
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