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“WnEAft, It is admitted by all men an a fundamental principle, that the public authority demand* the obedience and reaped of all it* subject*; it is also admitted that the people to be governed have the right to adopt or reject a form of government, or refuse allegianceto that which is proposed. In accordance with the fundamental principle, the people of this country had obeyed and respedea that authority * to which the circumstances surrounding its infancy compelled it to be subject. A company of adventurers known as the Hudson* Ray Com-taay, and invested with certain power grantedby his Majesty, Charles II., established itselfin RupertsLand, and in the Northwest Territory, for trading purposes only. This company consisted of many persons requiring a certain constitution, but as there was a question of commerce only, the constitution was formed with reference thereto, and yet, since there was at that time no government to seeto the interests of a people already existing inthe country, it became necessary’for the judicial office r to have recourse to the officers of the Hudson Ray Company. They inaugurated that specie*- of government £hicli, slightly modified by subsequent circumstances, ruled this country up to a recent date.“Whkkeah, Tne government thus occupied was far from answering the wants of the people,and became more and more so as the population increased in numbers, and as the country was developed commerce extended until the present day, when it commands a the countries; and the people, ever actuated by the above-mentioned principles, had generously supported the aforesaid government,and gave to it a faithfril allegiance: when, contrary to the law of nations, in March, 18#9, that said government surrendered and transferred to Canada all the rights which it had, »r pretended to have, in this territory, bjr transaction* with which the people were 0011-ridcred unworthy to be made acquainted: and,day of November,al moral principle*, solemnly dc-be law of our Constitution and in •mea, before God and man, that day on which the Government we \ respected abandoned us by traas-a strange power the sacred power the people of Rupert's Land and rest, became free and exempt from ice lo the Government., we refuse to recognize the author-ada, which pretends to have a right b, and Impose upon us a despotic veminent still more contrary to our interests as British subject*. than nrernment to which we had sub-elves, through necessity, up to a re-REBELLION IN TEN RED RIVERCOUNTRY.Formation of a Provisional Government* r. Paul, Minn , December 25.The people of Rupert’s Land and the Northwest Territory have adopted a Declaration of Independence, of which the following is a
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Cincinnati Weekly Chronicle
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Wed, Dec 29, 1869
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