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grafton aal settlement here. We have appealed
TO their native justice and magnanimity, and
we hav conjured them by the ties Of our COM
mon kindred TO disavow these usurpations, which
would inevitably interrupt our connexions and
correspondence. They too have been deaf to
the voice of justice and consanguinity, We
must therefore, acquiescc in the necessity which
denounces our separation, and hold them, as we
hold the rest of mankind nd--cncmics in war, in
in peace friends.


We, Therefore, the representatives of the U.
nited States of America, in general Cong ress as
sembed, appealing to the Supreme Judge Of the
world, for the rcctitude of intentions, do, in
the name and by the authority Of the good pco-
Pile Of these colonies, solemnly publish AMI de-
clare, that these United Colonies arc, and oiright
ought to be, free and Independent States that
they are absolved from all allegiance to the Brit
ish crown, and that all political connexion be-
tween them and the state of Great Britain, is,
and ought to be, totally dissolved; and that as
free and Independent states, they have tullpow-
er to levy war, conclude peace contract alliances,
establish commerce, and to 10 all other acts and
things VIII ch independent states may oirigh. do.
And for the support Of this declaration, with "A
firm reliance on the protection of Divine Irovi
dence, we mutually pledge to each othe' our
lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor


JOHN HANCOCK, PrSidod


Attest. CH,nLEs Thomson, Sec'y.