Adams stood before the hundreds of worried people gathered
in the Lincoln High auditorium and cleared his throat. The crowd was silent;
except for the occasional cough or quickly hushed whisper no one dared make a
sound. They all knew what was at stake here, that the decision they were
gathered to make could alter the course of history and change for world
forever. The entire state, the entire nation rather, was waiting to hear what
he had to say.
“Eleven
score and three years ago,” he began, evoking the message of Lincolns
Gettysburg address, “our for fathers created on these shores a new nation, a
nation grounded in the self-evident principle that all men are created equal,
that we are endowed by our creator with certain inaliable rights, which no man and
no government has a right to take away. The words of our founders right true in
the hearts of every American who grew in the nation they toiled for so long to
liberate from British rule, and it is because of the principled they passed on
to us that we find ourselves gathered together here today to discuss, and
ultimately decide, the fate of the nation they created. A nation of the people,
by the people, and for the people cannot long endure the grievances forced upon
them by a government of, by, and for an elite few.
“For
though our country was formed and maintained through two centuries of trouble
and tribulations, with the bedrock principles of liberty and almighty God,
there are those who see it fit to surrender to our former European masters the
blessings of life and liberty which God in His glory has seen fit to bestow
upon us.
“In
these times, when the objections of the people and their governments become so
that they may contemplate the dissolution of our blessed union, that they may
present for consideration by the President of the United States and by the
Congress the pretext for which this
separation is to occur and have it know by the nation and by the world the
position of the Free State of Alabama and its purpose for the issuance of this
Declaration. To President Santorum we so make this address:
-That he has entered ourselves, without the consent of the
people or the states, into a union of powers to which we are expected to
concede our many freedoms.
-That he has usurped the constitution of these United
States, making for himself a new law of dictorial powers found neither in its texts nor in
the intention of those who wrote it.
-That he has surrendered the national, political, and
economic sovereignty to foreign nations, and subjected the social and domestic
policies of these United States to an overseas empire.
-That he has usurped the will of the people by refusing to
recognize the legitimacy of their dully elected Free State Party
representatives in either the House of Representatives or of the Senate, by
jailing them without due process and holding the ballot box hostage.
-That he, through the signing of the Union of World
Governments Constitution, has left the people of Alabama unprotected from
European lawmakers, the right to bear arms, the right of free speech, the right
of a free press, and the guarantee of a Republican form of government.
-That he has levied excessive taxes against us, and allowed
the Union to plunder our wealth and prosperity for the internal improvements of
poorer Union members.
-That he has opened the boarders of this nation and this
state to invasion by foreign militaries and unwanted immigrants.
-That he has levied war against our brethren in Texas,
Oklahoma, Louisiana, Kansas, Nebraska, Vermont, South Carolina, and Florida.
-That he has allowed the militaries of France, Mexico,
Germany, and Italy to invade the sovereign territory of other Free States.
-That he has suspended the right of Habeas Corpus in the
states which support Unification and rendered, through force of arms, all
constitutional rights of the people null and void.
-He has established a system in which immigration from
foreign nations, most notably Mexico, cannot be checked and controlled in order
to maintain the stability of the native American population.
“It is
for these reasons that the people of the great state of Alabama, gathered in
general assembly and in the presence of almighty God, do declare that we are,
and of right ought to be, a free and independent state; that all ties that bind
us to the government of the United States, and to the Union of World
Governments, are to be severed completely, all jurisdiction and legal claimed
by these governing bodies to forever be considered null and void.
“The
people of Alabama, being of like mind and dedication, will implement a new
government, grounded one again in the principles of our for fathers, that
serves to better protect our rights of lifer, liberty, and property. With the
blessing of God and the people of our great state, I hereby call to vote the
Declaration of Independence, and I cede the floor to debate.”
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