The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1810-07-03

/ For qaar,cring large bodies Of armed troop;
| protecting them, by mock trial, from pu.
nisinent iur any murders which they should
commit or the inhahi,an;s oftaese States:
Far cutting off our trade with all part, OF the
world:
Forimposng taxes on us without our consent
For depriving us, in many cases of the bcne
fit. Of trial by Jury.
Transporting US beyond seas to be tried Tor
pretended offences.
Fa- abniishinc the free system - English laws
in a nc'ghhouring Province, establishing therein
Al arbitrary govtrnment, 6. charging IT'S bounda
RES, 50 As To render it at once m example and
hi instrument f,r Introducing the same absolute
rule INTO these colonies
For ',kng away charters abol shrg our
most vausDie laws, & altering Fundamentally tn t
forms of car government
For suspend'ng our own legislatures. and
d. c.aring themss ives invested with power to ic-
sislste tor US in all cases wla'soeyer
He has abdicsted government here, by dec,ar
ing US out fhis protection, and wasing war IL
Sainst us
He has plindered our seas, ravace,l our coas:
buru, our towns and destroyed the lives of OH
people, +
He is II tiis time, transporting large armies
of foreign mercenaries to complete the works Of
death. Oscillation and tyranny. air adv be gun with
circu instances ct cruelty and pelfidy, So ais.tiy
paialclcu III tho mos baroarous ages, and totalli
uu worthy the head OF a civilized nation
III has constrained our fellow citizens, taken
captive on The high seas, to hsar arms ag,,nst
Their country, to become the .Xccu,ioners OF
their friends and brethren, TO fall themselves
BY ueir hands
He has .xc,ted domestic Instructions amongst
us, and has endeavored 20 bring on the inhahi
tantS ofour frontiers, the merc,l Indiap sav.gcs
whose known rule of warfare s IN unt,ist;ngnish
ed destruction q. all ages, sexes and conditions
In pNa~. oil. . h. l.
petitoned for redress in the most bumhle terms
Our repeated petitions have been answered on
iy by repeated injury prince, whose charlotte
is thus marked by every act which may dcfime a
tyrant, is unfi, to be the ruler IF free people
Nor have we oeen wanting ia attention 10 o,ir
British Brethren We have warned them from,
time 10 time, Of attempts by their legsi tur,. 10
extend an unwarrsntable Jurisdiction over u.s.
We have reminded them of the circumstsn, G
ot our emigration and settlement here w hav,
appealed IL their native justice and m gnAnimi,y,
and we have CON ured them b, the ties at our
common kindred, TO disavow these u,urpation-
which would inevitably interrupt our come xions
| and correspondence They, too, have been deaf
to the voice of justice and Of cons1nguinity. We
must, therefore, acquesce in the necessity which
denounces our separation, and hold thcm, as W (
hold the rest of mankind enemies in war; in
peace, friends
| We, therefore, the Representatives of the u
NITED STA FES OF AMERICA, IN General
Congress assembled, appealing /, Supge me
| Judge otth world for the recutude of our in,en-
| tons, Do, in the name, and by tic authority OF
the good People at these colonies, solennly pub
iish ard declare, That these United Colon. are
N of right ought to be. Free AID Indt pen tenn
| States J: ;hat they absoivs from all als ganc.
10 the British Cream, & that all political ccnn-x
on between them and the State of Great Britain,
IS, and ought 5e totally dissolved; and that 40
Free AID Independent States. they have full power
To lev, war, CON ude peace, contract alliances.
establish commerce, and 70 do all other acts and
things which Inds pendent States ~ Of right 90
And for The support Of this declaration, with
firm reliance on tieprotection of DIVINE Plov
derce, we mutu'iy pledge each Other, our
lives. our fortunes aud CIV. cd honor
| Sighed by ord and IN be.,sif If the CorSress
JCHN HANCOCK Preca4ent
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| CHAKLES THNAIPSON S.r.etnr-