wrote two declarations, or rather pieces, after the very same
style and manner, namely, the first and the thirty-fifth Letters. They
can be thrown into the same synoptical form in which I have put the
Declaration. But to show the rythm, and alliteration, and peculiar
style, I give the following:

"When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one
people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them
with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the
separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of
nature's God entitle them, a decent respect for the opinions of
mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel
them to the separation."--Declaration.

"When the complaints of a brave and powerful people are observed
to increase in proportion to the wrongs they have suffered; when,
instead of sinking into submission, they are roused to resistance,
the time will soon arrive at which every inferior consideration
must yield to the security of the sovereign and to the general
safety of the state. There is a moment of difficulty and danger at
which flattery and falsehood can no longer deceive, and simplicity
itself can no longer be misled."--Junius.

"When the tumult of war shall cease, and the tempest of present
passions be succeeded by calm reflection; or when those who,
surviving its fury, shall inherit from you a legacy of debts and
misfortunes; when the yearly revenue shall scarcely be able to
discharge the interest of the one, and no possible remedy be left
for the other, ideas far different from the present will arise and
embitter the remembrance of former follies."

The above three extracts are from the Declaration, Junius, and Crisis,
viii. There is in them the same stately measure or _tread_; the same
harmony of sounds; the same gravity of sentiment; the same clearness of
diction; the same boldness of utterance; the same beauty and vivacity;
in short, the same spirit and the same hand.

Now an extract from Jefferson will be in place, and I give it from one
of his most impassioned pieces, the "Summary View." I do this for two
reasons: first, because it is the only piece, up to the writing of the
Declaration, which he ever produced worthy of note; and second, because
it is his best. I give also the best of this piece, the exordium:

{236}"_Resolved_, That it be an instruction to the said deputies,
when a