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Excerpt from Address Before the Common Council and Citizens of the City of Schenectady, July 4, 1865
Iating condition of colonial subjection, and trans formed into free and independent States, pre sented themselves to the startled gaze of the admiring and sympathizing masses of other countries, a one, united, self-constituted nation, proclaiming the principles upon which it was founded, and by which its creation was justified. This declaration of independence, was not a form of government and did not prescribe one. I That great desideratum had yet to be supplemented. The severance from the British Empire, and the assumption of sovereign power, as well as the institution of civil government, were all acts of political authority which the people alone could perform. The two former were accomplished by the Declaration of Independence, which was published in the name and was the act of the people. In that instrument the people of the United Colonies assumed the obligation of insti tuting a civil government to secure the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; rights declared therein to be unalienable; and by that.
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