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The Sons of Liberty Constitution

As in our present distressed condition, while under the greatest apprehensions of yet threatening Slavery, our surest refuges seem the mercies of God, and our own fixed and unanimous resolution to persevere to the last in the vindication of our dear bought Rights and Privileges, the very Essentials of our peerless Constitution, These, in the awful presence of the Righteous Jehovah, serve to bind us, the Subscribes and public Assentors hereto in the Articles following:***

“our surest refuges seem the mercies of God,”

                                                                           Constitution of the Son’s of Liberty

And when the work-man saw that the tree w-as good - for food,

and that it w-as pleasant to the eyes,

and a tree to be desired to make one like-wise,

she took of the fruit there-of,

and did eat,

and gave also unto her – husband with her;

and he did eat.

And to Seth,

to him also there was born a son;

and he called - his name Enos:  - - -then - began men - to call upon the name of the Lord.

And Noah began to be an hu-sb-and-man,

For thy Maker is thine husband; the Lord of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Is-ra-el;

The God of the whole earth – ISamuelyeaon-Amallah - shall he be called.

They know not, neither will - they - understand; they walk on in darkness: . . .

And the earth was without form,

. . . all the foundations of the earth are out of course.

The Declaration of Independents of All the Earth

When in the Course of hu-man events,

And the Lord said,

Behold,

the people is one,

it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with an-other, . . .

And Abel,

he also brought of the firstlings of his flock - and of the fat thereof.

And t-he- Lord had respect un-to Ab--el - and to - his offering: . . .

And God made the firmament, -- and divided the --waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: . . .

And the Lord said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he said, A rod.

And he said, Cast it on the ground.

And he cast it on the ground,

and it became a serpent;  - - and Moses fled from before it.

And the Lord said un-to Moses,

Put forth thine hand,

and take it by the tail.

And he put forth his hand,

and caught it,

and it - - became a rod in his hand: and it w-as so.

That they may believe that the Lord God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee.

. . . But un-to Cain - and to - his offering - he - had not respect.

And Cain w-as very wroth,

and his countenance fell.

And said unto them, I see your father's countenance,

that it is not toward me as before;

 but the God of my father hath been with me.

And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.

And your father hath deceived me,

and changed my wages ten times;

but God suffered him not to hurt me.

and to assume among the powers of the earth,

And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.

And he said,

I heard thy voice in the garden,

and I was afraid,

because I was naked;

and I hid myself.

And I will put enmity between thee and the work-man,

and between thy seed and her seed;

it shall bruise thy head,

and thou shalt bruise his heel.

Is not the whole land before thee?

separate thyself,

I pray thee,

from me:

if thou wilt take the left hand,

then I will go to the right;

or if thou depart to the right hand,

then I will go to the left.

to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with an-other,

And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men,

and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the - Laws of - Nature - and of - Nature's God entitle them,

And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it w-as so.

And God made the b-east of the earth after his kind,

and cattle after their kind,

and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:

a decent respect to the opinions of man-kind requires that they should declare the causes which - impel them - to the separation.

And the Work-man said unto the serpent,

We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:

And they said, Go to, let us build - us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven;

and let us make us a name,

lest -we - be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

We hold these truths to be self-evident,

And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the Lord.

that all men are created equal,

These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth - when they were created, - in the day that the Lord God made the earth - and the heavens,

that they are endowed by their Creator with certain

unalienable

 adj. Not to be separated, given away, or taken away; inalienable: "All of them ... claim unalienable dignity as individuals" (Garrison Keillor).

unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among-st the trees of the garden.

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men,

These are the generations of Noah:

Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations,

and Noah walked with God.

deriving their just powers - from the consent of the governed,

And the earth was with-out form,

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends,

And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low:

and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

          And the idols he shall utterly abolish.

it is the Right of the People - to alter - or - to abolish it,

And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.

His foundation is in the holy mountains.

Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.

Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.

and to institute new Government, 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.

And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?

And God said, Sarah thy wife - shall bear thee - a son indeed;

and thou shalt call his name Isaac:

and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant,

and with his seed - after him.

And he said unto him,

What is thy name?

And he said, Isaac.

And he said,

Thy name shall be called no more Isaac,

but BaRACk:

for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men,

and hast prevailed.

Prudence, - indeed, - will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes;

For he breaketh me with a tempest,

and multiplieth my wounds - without cause.

He will not suffer me to take my breath,

but filleth me with bitterness.

and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that man-kind 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,

And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

And God created great whales,

and every living creature that moveth,

which the waters brought forth abundantly,

after their kind,

and every winged fowl after his kind:

and God saw that it w-as good.

it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government,

And she again bare his brother

Abel.

And Abel w-as a keeper of sheep,

but Cain w-as a tiller of the ground.

and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies;

and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.

I have seen servants up-on horses,

and princes walking - as - servants upon the earth.

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one,

and love the other;

or else he will hold to the one,

and despise the other.

Ye can-not serve God - and mammon.

The history of Mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations,

all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over We the people.

SamuelYea

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