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Title: New York at the Jamestown Exposition, Norfolk, Virginia, April 26 to December 1, 1907
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: New York (State). Commission, Jamestown Exposition, 1907
Subjects: Jamestown Ter-centennial Exposition (1907) New York (State)--Exhibitions
Publisher: Albany, N.Y. : J.B. Lyon Co.
Contributing Library: Virginia Beach Public Library
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ion, in connection with the reunion of the Descend-ants of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence. It is doubtful whether Governor Hughes ever spoke with greaterspirit, and his message to the people is well worth recording in thispermanent form. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are createdequal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienablerights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness;that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men derivingtheir just powers from the consent of the governed.,>—Declaration ofIndependence. The immortal words of the preamble of the Declaration ofIndependence recorded more than a protest against exactions of theBritish crown. They were more than an assertion of the right ofthe Colonies to be independent States. They passed beyond thenecessities of the moment and transcended perhaps in their broadimport the sentiment of many who, exasperated by tyrannical demands,
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