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    "title": "Tyler Imprint of the Declaration of Independence",
    "description": "This item consists of one of the earliest known decorative reproductions of the original engrossed Declaration of Independence. Designed and executed by Benjamin Owen Tyler, a publisher and professor of penmanship in the city of Washington, DC, the reproduction consists of an artistic script of the title and text with facsimile signatures. The accuracy of the text and signatures was attested to by Richard Rush, Acting Secretary of State and his endorsement appears on the bottom left corner.",
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    "ocrText": "CONGRES S.July\n1.14776\nUnanimons eclavation of the thirteen Shited States of\nM\nSarth. separate and equal station to which the Laws of Valure and of Nature's God ontitle them decent respect to the of nd requires that they-shoule declare causes\nthe When course of human events. it becomes necepary for one people dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to apume among the the of the\nwhich impet them the separation hold these truths to be selfevident that all men are created equal. that they are endowed by their Creater with certain unatic that\namong these are Sife, Siberty and the pursul That to secure these Governments are instituted among Men deriving their powers from the consent the geverned\nThat whenever form of Gevernment becomes destructive of these ends it is the of the People to alter or v-abelish it and institute new Government laying its foundation on\nsuch principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and Happineps Prudence-vinded will diclate that governments long established\nshould not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all-aperience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer evils the sufferable than to right themselves\nby abolishing the forms to they are accustomed. long train of abuses and unurfutions pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a vesign to reduce them under absolute\nDespotion Right, it is their duty throw off such Government and to p new Guards for future security Luch has been the patient sufferance of these colonies and\nnow the necepsity which constrains them to after their former Systems of Government. history of the present king Gual Britain a history repeated injuries and usurpali\ncHa, all having direct object the establishment ofan absolute Tyranny over these States let Ofacts be submitted to candul HE refused his apent\nLaws the most wholesome and necepary for the public good He has forbidden his Governors Laws of and pressing importance unlep suspended in their operation till\nhis assent should be obtained and when suspended he has alterly neglected to alleno to them E has refused to pays other for the accommovation of large districts of people\nplaces unusual uncomfortable and the depository of their Public lecords sole ричром fatiguing them into. compliance with his measures difented Repre\nthose people would relinquish the right Representation in the Legislative a right inestimable to formidable to tyrants only He has called together degistative bodies\nsentative Houses repeatedly for opposing with manly furmeds, his invamens on the Rights People He has refused a long time after such difsolutions, to cause oth to be\nelected; whereby the Legislative powers incapable of Innibilation have returned to the People at large for their exercise the State remaining mean time orp ord to all the dangers of\ninvanon from without and convulsions within He has endeavoured to prevent the population of States for that purpose bstruetings Laws for of\nrefusing to paps others to encourage their migrations hither and raising the conditions of repriations of Yands He has obstructed the Idministration of Justice, by refusing\nhis assent for establishing Indiciary Powers He has made Sudoes dependent tenure oftheir offices, and the amount andpayment their salaries.\nHe erected multitude of New Nices, and sent hither swarms of Hicers to harraps our people eat out their substance He has leefet among times peace Stand\ning Armies without the Consent our Segislate He has affected to render the Military independent of, and superior power He has combined with others\nto subject us to a jurisdiction foreign our constitution and unacknowleged by our laws, giving his Apent to their acts firetended For quartering large bodies\ned troops among For protecting them by Moch from punishment Hurders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States culling off\nour Trade with all parts of the imposing gares on without our Consent depriving ил many cases, of the benefits of Tual by Tury For kans.\nporting us beyond tried pretended offences for abolishing the free system of English lawsin a neighbouring province establishing theirin an arbitrary government, and\nentarging its Boundaxies, as to render it at once an example and fil instrument for introducing The same absolute rule into these Colonies away Charters abolishing our\nmost valuable Laws and altering pendamentally our Governments For suspending our vivns legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with Power to legislate (1) in all\ncases whatsoever He has aboirated Government here by declaring us of his Protection and waging Mar against us He has plundered deas raveged cur Coaola\nburnt towns and destroyed the lives of people time transporting large Armies offorcign to complete the works of death desclation and lyanny already\nbegin with circumstances of Cruelty and Perfidy searcely paralleled in the most barous ages and totally unworthy the head nation He has constrained on followser\ntizens. taken Captive the high leas bear Arms against their Country to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren fall themselves by their Hands Hi has eacited do\nmestic insurrections amongst us and has endeavoured to bring on the of our frontiers. the mercileps Indian Savages whose known rute of warfare an undistinguished destruction of\nall ages, sexes, and conditions - In every stage ofthese We have Setitioned for REDRESS in the most humble terms Our repeated Vor have been answered only\nattentions to our Brittish brethren Me have warned them from lime to time of attempts by their degistature to extend an univariantable jurisdiction We reminded them\nby repeated enjury whose character w this marked by every act which may define Agrant unfit to be the ruter ofa people have have been wanting the in\ncircumstances ofour emigration and settlement here MC appealed to their native justice have and we have conjured them by the ties of our We common kindred disavow\nthese unirpations, which would ineritably interrupt our connexions and correspondence they to the voice of justice and must in\nthe necessity which denounces our Separation and hold them hold mankind Enemies WAR, Peace Friends\nWe therefore the representatives ofthe\nof the world for the rectitude of vur intentions the Name and by Authority of the good people these Colonies solemnly publish and that these United\nUNITED STATES of AMERICA Srurril Sungrris. Ysembled, appealing the SUPREME JUDGE\nare and of Right ought to be FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES; that they all Allegiance to British Crown am\nfull & ower to levy Mar conclude Peder contract Klliances, establish and to do all Hils and Things which Independent States\nthat all political connexion and the state of Great Britain to be totally difsolved that as Stee and Independent States they have\nmay of Right do. support this Didoration, with a firm reliance Protection of DIVINE VIDENCE, WE matually-\npledge to each other LIVES, FORTUNES, and our savred HONOR.\nHm Hooper\nJohn Hancock\nRob Morris\nJosiah Barthtt\nButton\nJohn Jonph Hewes P\nBenjamin Rush\nChil. Livingstor\nWhipple\nAdams\nhase\nLyman Hally\nWw Para\nP\nTaan Lenis\nGeoWalton.\nThe Stone\nJohn Morton\nLewis Morris\nJohn Adams\nEdward Ruttedge\nRob Painee\nThe\nGualtymer Smith\nElbridg yerry\ndepartment of Hate Thomas\nSeptember 10. 1817\nJames Goo Jaylon Wilson\nStep Hopkins\nthe foregoing collated the\ncopy the declaration\nGeorgeWythe\nIndependence has been with\nGro. Rops\nWilliam Ellery\ninstrument and found have myself\nRich and HenryLee\nexamined the signatures each those executed\nbasar Rodney\nhras Kopkinson,\nRoger Sherman\nSam Huntington\nby Tyler are currously exact so\nmuch that it would be difficult not\nGookcad\nMy Nilliams\nthem were it not for the hand time from\nimpositle for the closest scruting to distinguish the\nBeny \"Harnsong\nThom.Brok\nAbra Clark\nOliver Wollott\nMatthew ThomAon\noriginals\nRichard Rush\nActing hontary of\nCarterBracton"
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