Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1815-07-01

mItted to a candid world.
lie has refused his assent to laws. the
most wholesome and necessary for the pub
,ic good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass
laws OF Immediate aud pressing import
ance, unless suspended in their operation
| I'D his assent should be obtained and
when So suspended, he has utterly ne
elected to attend 10 them.
Tie has refused to pass other laws for
the accommodation of large districts of
Peapic, unless those people would relin-
quisn inc right OF representation in the le-
-yis'atnre, right inestimable to them, and
formidable to tyrants only.
lie has called together Legislative boz
dies at places unusual, uncomfortable. and
distant from the depository OF tier public
records, for the sole purpose OF fatieuing.
them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Hou-.
ses repeatedly, for opposing with manly
tirmness his iuvasiOns on the rights of the
people.
Hehas refused for 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
stateremaining IN the mean time exposed
to all the danger of invasion from without.
and convulsions within.
re mas endeavored to prevent the po-
pg "tion of these States for t.at purpose,
o5structing the laws for naturalization of
foreigners refusing to pass others to en-
courage their migrations hither, and rails
ing the conditions of new appropriations OF
lands.
He has obstructed the administration of
ljustice. by refusing his assent to laws for
establishing judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent OH his
will alone, for the tenure OF their Offices.
and the amount and payment Of their saIa-
ries.
lie has erected a multitude of new Off
ces. and sent lither swarms of officers to
harrass our people, and eat out their sub
stance.
He has Kept among us, in times of
pe-ce, standing armies, without the con-
sent of our Legislatures.
lie has affected to render the military
independent of, and superior to, the civil
power.
He has combined with Others to sub
ject US to a jurisdiction foreign to our con-
stitution, and unacknowledged0 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 a mock trial
| from punishment for any murders which
they should commit Oh the inhabitants OF
these States
For cutting Of 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 offences
! For aboiishing the free system Of English
laws in a neighforing province, establish
ing therein an arbitrary government, and
charging its boundaries. so as to render II
at once an example and cit instrument for
introducing 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
sOeyer.
RE has abdicated government here, by
declaring us out of his protection, and wa
ging war against US.
He has plundered cur seas, ravaged our
coast, burnt our towns, and destroyed the
lives Of our people.
Heis, at this time. transporting large ar
mice Of foreign mercenaries to complete
the works of death ,desolatiou and tyranny,
lalready begun with circumstances Of cruel
Ety and perhdy, scarcely paralieled in the
lmOst barbarous ages, and totally unworthy
the head of civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow citizens,
taken captive on the high seas, to bear
arms against their country, to become the
execudoners of their friends and brethren,
or to fall themselves by their hands.
He has excited domestic Instructions
amongst US, and has endclvored to bring
on the inhabitants of our froutiers, the
Imerciless Ipdian saysges, whose known
rule of warfare is an undistineuished des-
ltruction Of all aces, sexes and conditions.
! In every stage Of these expressions we
have petitioned for redress, in the most
humble terms our repeated petitions have
been answered by repeated injury. A