Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1810-07-03

ioit1ces and sent hither swarms of Off
1rers, to harrass our people, aud eat gu,
their substance. 80 1884,, =
He has kept among ue, IN times oil
. ipeace, standing armies without the
iconsent of our legislatures.
!. He has affected to render the mill
tary independent Of, and sups rior to
/ the civil power. -
i He has Combined With Others. to
.jsubject US to a Jurisdiction, foreign 10
j our Constitution and unacknowledged
4 By our laws giving bis assert, to their
acts of pretended legislation.
j For quartering large bodies of arm
ledrroops among us :--I ga
/ For protecting them, bs mock tri.
al, from punishmsnt for any MURDERS
(which they should commit o., the In.
lhahitants of these Sites - y ~
For cutting off our trade with all
iparts of the world 49, 80 20
For imposing taxes on Jus without
Jour consent -
For depriving as in msny cases, of
the benefits of trial by jury:--
For transporting US beyond seas,
to be tried for pretended offences So
4 For abolfshiog the free system of
English laws in a neighboring pro-
vince, establishing therein an arbitrary,
government. and enitrging its boands-
fries SO IS To render it at once an ex.
ample and at instrument, for intro
ldncing the same absolute rcle into
these colonies s:--
For taking away our charters abo-
Fishing our mcstvaluahie laws, and al.
| sering fundamentally the forms of our
tgovernmenfs 49,
Forsuspending our own legislatures,
land declaring themselves invested
with power, to 1egislate for as in all
cases whatsoever.
I He has abdicated government here,
lby declaring us out OF bis protection
and waging war against US.
/ He has plundered our seas, ravaged
our coasts, burnt our towns. and de-
! sire ed the lives of onr people. .s--5
He is at this time transporting large
armies OF foreign mercenaries TO com
plete the works of death, desolation,
md tyranny, already begun, with cir
cumstances of cruelty and per6dy,
scarcely PARALLEL in the most barba-
rous ages, and totally unworthy the
head Of a civilized nation.
I He has constl aimed our fellow cisi.
j gems, taken captive on the high seas, to
20 bear arms against their country, be-
lcome the executioners of their friends
and brethren, or to fall themselves by
their hands. D
He has excited domestic insusrecti-
ons amongst Us, and has endeavored
4 TO bring on he inhabitants of our from
4 tiers, the mereiless Indian savages,
whose known rule of warfare is an un-
disting uished destruction of all ages,
i sexes, and conditions.
| In every stage of these oppre isions,
we have petitioned for redress, in the
most humble terms our repeated Pc
ttions have been answered only-by
repeated imjcry.-A prince whose cha-
racter is thus marked by every act
J which may define a tyr'int, is unfit to
De the ruler of Free People.
4 Nor have we been wan ing in at.
tention to our British brethren. We
have warned them from time to time,
/. of attempts made by their legislature
Z 20 ex,end an unwarrantaole jurisdicti-
on over us. We have reminded them
lof the icumsrances OF our emigration
and settlement here. We have APP
'!pealed to their native justice and mag
mani nifty, and we have conldred them,
! by the ties of our common Kindred, "a
disavOw these asurpatlons, which
; you'd inevitably interrupt our con-
nections and correspondence. They
TOO have been deaf u the voice of jus-
ice and cJnsanguinity. We must,
. therefore, acq aiesce Ia the necessity
which denouncss our separation, and
nold the N as we hold the rest OF man.
S.ni IN warm peace,
trends.
We, therefore, the Representatives
'jof the Uaited States &C America il
Congress assembled, appealing TO tbs
jupreme Jadge at the world Tor ths
ectitudc of our intentions, DO, IN lhs
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