The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1811-07-02

Ibished should not be changed for light and
transient causes; and accordingly all ex-
Iperience hath shewn, that mankind are
| more dispose u suffer, while evils are suf-
| terable than to right themselves by abol-
ishing the forms to which they are accus-
toned But when long train OF abuses and
usurpatons. pursuing invariably the same
object, evinces design to reduce them un-
der absolute despotism, It is their right, il
is their duty, to throw off such government,
and To provide new guards for their future
security. Such has been the patient suffer
ance OF these Colonies; and such is now
the necessity which Constrains them TO al
ter their former system OF government
The history of the present King of Great
Britain is 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 candid world.
He has refused his assent. to laws, the
most wholesome and necessary for the pub
lie good
He has forbidden his Governors to pass
laws o. Immediate and pressing Importance,
unless suspended in their operation till his
assent should be obtained; and when So sus-
pended, he has utterly neglected to attend
Co them.
He has refused top pass other laws for the
accommodation of large districts of people,
unless those people would relinqush the
right of representation, in the Legislature, a
right ines,imable to them, and formidable 10
tyrants only. N :.
He has called together Legislative bo-
dies at places unusual. uncomfortable, and
distant from the depository of their pub
lie records, for the sole purpose of IA
riguing them into compliance with his mea-
sures.
He has dissolved Representative houses
repeatedly. for opposing with manly firm
ness his invasions on the rights of the PEG.
pie
He has refused for long time, after such
dIssoutiOns. 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 re-
naming IN the mean time exposed to all the
danger of invasion from without, and con-
WILSON'S within.
He has endeavored to prevent the popu
lation of these States; for that purpose OBJ
structing the laws for naturalzat alton of TO
reigners; refusing to pass others to-en-
courage their mgrations hither, and raising
the conditions OF new appropriations of
lands. -. ., =
He has INSTRUCTED the administration of
justice, by refusing his assent to laws for
establishing judiciary powers.
de mas made Judges dependent on his
will alone, for the tenure of their Offices,
and the amount and payment of their sala
ries. -.
He has erected multitude of new off
ces, and sent hither swarms of officers
to harass our people, and eat out their SUBJ
stance. -.
e has kept among us. in times of peace
standing armies, without the consent of our
legislatures.
He has affected to render the military
independent Of and superior to the civil
power.
2 he has combined with others TO subject
us to jurisdiction toreign~io our constitute
on, and meteorological by our laws; giving
his assent to their acts of pretended legisla-
ton;
For qnartering 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
Fur cutting OFF our trade with all parts of
the world; -
For imposing taxes on US without our con-
sent;
For depriving us in many cases, of the
benefits OF trial by jury;
.Fertransporting us beyond seas to be .ri.
ed for pretended offences
Fer abolishing the free system of English
laws in neighboring Province, establishing
therein an arbitrary government, and enlar-
gIng It's boundaries, so as to render it at
once an example and fit instrument for in
Producing the same absolute rule into these
Colonies
For taking away our charters, abolish
ing our most valuable laws, and altering
fundamentally the forms of our govern
ments
For suspending our own Legislatures,
and declaring themselves invested with
power to legislate for us in all cases what
soever.
He has abdicated government here, by de i.
claring us out of his protection, and waging
war against U.s.
He has pluhdered our seas, ravaged our
coasts. burnt our towns, and destroyed the
lives of our people
He is at this time. transporting large
armies of foreign mercenaries to COM
plete the works of death, desolation and
tyranny, already begun with circumstan-
ces of cruelty and Perfdy, scarcely pa
ralleiled 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