We have not been wanting in attention to our "elected" Federal officials. We have warned them, from time to time, of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over our Species. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement in North America. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them, by the ties of our common Kindred, to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our Hallowed Order and Ascensional Transudation. They have been deaf to the voice of Justice and Consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity that denounces our Eternal Separation, and we must hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace – *friends*.
