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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