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Petition to the Governor 3
We shall in the first place lay it down as a firm principle in the language of that holy instrument, the declaration of_ our independence, and must insist upon it as citizens of the United States, ""That we are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these rights are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just
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