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. They, too , have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity which denounces our separation, They have made known our inherited rights as British subjects, therefore we are not declaring ourselves independent from a government that does not protect our rights and freedoms They have ignored our inherited rights as British subjects, so we are declaring ourselves independent from a government that does not protect our rights and freedoms They have acknowledged our inherited rights as British subjects, so we are declaring ourselves independent from a government that does protect our rights and freedoms.