Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1858 — Declaration of Independence—A New Feature. [ARTICLE]

Declaration of Independence—A New Feature.

At the celebration of the Fourth of July at Belvillej Illinois, the Declaration oi Independence was read both in English and German; and the following paragraph from that memorable paper, a»originally prepared by Jefferson, but \y,l#ch was stricken out in compliance with the, wishes of the slave- | trading colony of S uth Carolina, was also 1 read in the. two languages, eliciting marked ; applause from the hearers.:- ■ “He (the king of Great Britian) has-wagrd cruel war against" human nature itself, violating its most sacred-rights of lil'e and liberty, ’ n 'he persons of a distinct people who never-offended him, captivating and carrying ' them into slavery jr. another hemisphere, or to incur a miserable death on their transposition thither. This piratical-warfare, the. opprobrium oi infidel nowers, is the warfare of the Christian King of Great Bri; ,'pt. Determined Is; keep bpfto a market where MES should be bought and sold 7 lie has prostituted Iris prerogatives for suppressing any legislative attempt to prohibit, or restrain this execrable commerce, and that this usremblage ot barons might wont no fact of' distinguished die, he is now'exciting these very people to rise'iri arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he mis deprived them, by murdering the people upon whom, he obtruded them, thus paying off Crimes coinn>itted against the liberties of one people with crimes which he urges them to commit against the lives' of another.” In these days ol modern Democracy, when the minds of many have been perverted from' the truth by the sophisms and specious mishien ambitious for the Presidency, it is well that the public mind be refreshed, and especially upon the recurrence of the anniversary of our national freedom, with the doctrines of the e try- athera ot the Republic. We trust the ex un tie of our Beltville friends will be with ly imitated.