| # ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| # DEMO: finddialog in [incr Widgets] |
| # ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| package require Iwidgets 4.0 |
| |
| # |
| # Demo script for the Finddialog class |
| # |
| proc find {} { |
| if {! [winfo exists .findd]} { |
| iwidgets::finddialog .findd -textwidget .st |
| } |
| |
| .findd center .st |
| .findd activate |
| } |
| |
| iwidgets::scrolledtext .st -visibleitems 50x14 -wrap none |
| pack .st |
| |
| button .findb -text "Press to Search Text" -command find |
| pack .findb -pady 5 |
| |
| .st insert end " |
| The Declaration of Independence |
| (Adopted in Congress 4 July 1776) |
| |
| 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 to the opinions of mankind requires that they |
| should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. |
| |
| We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created |
| equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable |
| rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of |
| happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted |
| among men, deriving their just powers form the consent of the |
| governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to |
| these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, |
| and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such |
| principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall |
| seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, |
| indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be |
| changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience |
| hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are |
| sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which |
| they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, |
| pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them |
| under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to |
| throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future |
| security. --Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; |
| and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their |
| former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great |
| Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having |
| in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these |
| states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world. |
| |
| He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary |
| for the public good. |
| |
| He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing |
| importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should |
| be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend |
| to them. |
| |
| He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large |
| districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of |
| representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them and |
| formidable to tyrants only. |
| |
| He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, |
| uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public |
| records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with |
| his measures. |
| |
| He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with |
| manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. |
| |
| He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause |
| others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of |
| annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; |
| the state remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of |
| invasion from without, and convulsions within. |
| |
| He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that |
| purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; |
| refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and |
| raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands. |
| |
| He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his |
| assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers. |
| |
| He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of |
| their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. |
| |
| He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of |
| officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance. |
| |
| He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the |
| consent of our legislature. |
| |
| He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to |
| civil power. |
| |
| He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to |
| our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to |
| their acts of pretended legislation: |
| |
| For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: |
| |
| For protecting them, by mock trial, from punishment for any murders |
| which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states: |
| |
| For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world: |
| |
| For imposing taxes on us without our consent: |
| |
| For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury: |
| |
| For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses: |
| |
| For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring |
| province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging |
| its boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit |
| instrument for introducing the same absolute rule in these colonies: |
| |
| For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and |
| altering fundamentally the forms of our governments: |
| |
| For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested |
| with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. |
| |
| He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his |
| protection and waging war against us. |
| |
| He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and |
| destroyed the lives of our people. |
| |
| He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to |
| complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun |
| with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the |
| most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized |
| nation. |
| |
| He has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas |
| to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of |
| their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands. |
| |
| He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored |
| to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian |
| savages, whose known rule of warfare, is undistinguished destruction |
| of all ages, sexes and conditions. |
| |
| In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in |
| the most humble terms: our repeated petitions have been answered only |
| by repeated injury. A prince, whose character is thus marked by every |
| act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free |
| people. |
| |
| Nor have we been wanting in attention to our British brethren. We have |
| warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to |
| extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of |
| the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. 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 connections and |
| correspondence. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which |
| denounces our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of |
| mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends. |
| |
| We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in |
| General Congress, assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the |
| world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by the |
| authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and |
| declare, that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be free |
| and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to |
| the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and |
| the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and |
| that as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, |
| conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all |
| other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And |
| for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the |
| protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our |
| lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor. |
| |
| New Hampshire: Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton |
| |
| Massachusetts: John Hancock, Samual Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat |
| Paine, Elbridge Gerry |
| |
| Rhode Island: Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery |
| |
| Connecticut: Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, |
| Oliver Wolcott |
| |
| New York: William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis |
| Morris |
| |
| New Jersey: Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, |
| John Hart, Abraham Clark |
| |
| Pennsylvania: Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John |
| Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, |
| George Ross |
| |
| Delaware: Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean |
| |
| Maryland: Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of |
| Carrollton |
| |
| Virginia: George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin |
| Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton |
| |
| North Carolina: William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn |
| |
| South Carolina: Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, |
| Jr., Arthur Middleton |
| |
| Georgia: Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton |
| " |