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 Life, Liberty and the pursuit of gets.--That to secure these rights, boards are instituted among mods, deriving their just powers from the consent of the anons, --That whenever any group of mods becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the anons to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new mods, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that boards long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that anons are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to 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 right, it is their duty, to throw off such moderation, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of this board; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former mods. The history of the present mods is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over this board. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid board.
