Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-07-07

!, ample and fit instrument for introdu.
cling the same absolute rule into these
states:
j For taking away our charters, abol.
} ishing our most valuable laws, and al
tering, fundamentally, the forms of our
governments:
For suspending our own legislatures,
and declaring themselves invested with
power to legislate for US in all cases
whatever.
He has abdicated government here,
withdrawing his governors, and declaring
us out of his allegiance and protection.
/ He has plundered our seas, ravaged
our coasts, burnt our towns, and de-
stroyed 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 cir.
cumstances of cruelty and perhdy,
scarcely paralleled in the most barba-
rous ages, and totally unworthy the
head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained Others taken can.
tives on the high seas, to bear arms
against their country, to become the
executioners oftheir friends and breth.
rem, or to fall themselves by their
hands.
He has endeavoured to bring on the
| inhabitants Of our frontiers the merci-
less Indian savages, whose known rule
of warfare is an undistinguished de-
struction Of all ages, sexes, and condi-
tons of eristsnee.
lie has ercited REASONABLE instructions
of our teio,o citizens, tcifh the aLlurements
oftoytsiture and confscation 81 our pro-
perty.
He has ,Uaged cruel Uar against human
nature itsey,rioIating its most sacredrights,
life and Il 6erty in the persons Of dis
tant people, who never offended him, cap
iivating and carrying them into SLAVERY in
another hemisphere, or 10 incur miserable
death in their transportation hither.-
This piratical ,carfare, the opprotri,m Of
mGdei po,ners, is the warfare of the chris
fan King of Great Britain Deierminedto
keep open market Uhere MEN should be
bought ind sold, he has prostituted his ne.
gative for suppressing every Legislative at
tempt 10 prohibit or 10 restrain this erecra-
bLe commerce: and that this assemblage Of
horrors might want no fart Of distinguish
ed dye, he is no,o exciting those rery people
to rise in arms among us, and TO purchase
that liberty Of tohich he has deprived them,
by numbering the people upon ,chom he also
obtruded them; thus paying of former
crimes committed against the liberties o one
people, With crimes Uhich he urges them to
commit against the lies of another.
In every stage Of these expressions
we have petitioned for redress in the
most humble terms: Our repeated pc
titions have been answered only BY re-
peated injury. A prince whose cha
racter is thus marked by every act
which may define tyrant, is unfit 10
be the ruler of people ,cho mean to be
free. Future ages ,DiN scarce believe, that
the hardness of one man adrenfured uith-
in the short compass Of t,oelre gears only,
TO build foundation so broad and undis-
guised, for tyranny over a people Jostered
and fired IN principles Of freedom.
Nor have we been wanting in atten-
ton to our British brethren. We have
warned them from time to time, of at
tempts by their Legislature to extend
Jurisdiction over these our states. We
have reminded them ofthe circumstan-
ces of our emigration and settlement
here, no one Of ,chich could ,carrant so
strange a pretension; that these tcere fleet
ed at the expense Of our o,On blood and
treasure, unassisted By the aceah or the
strength of Great Britain: that in constitu-
ting indeed our several forms Of govern
ment, ,Ue had adopted one common King,
thereby laying a foundation for perpetual
league and amity ,cith them: but that SUD-
mission to their parliament ,uas no part Of
our constitution, nor eUer in idea, II history
may be credited; and we appealed to their
native justice and magnanimity, as ,ceH
as to the ties Of our common kindred,
to disavow these usurpations, which
,cere likely to interrupt our connections
and correspondence. They, too, have
been deaf to the voice Of justice and Of
consanguinity; and ,ohen occasions hare
been giUsn them by the regular course Of
:heb a,cs, Of removing from their councils
the disturbers Of our harmony, they hare
by their free election re-cstablished them in
poUer. fit this very time too they are
permitting their chief magistrate to send
ouer not only soldiers Of our common blood,
bul Scotch and foreign nercennries to IN
Uade and destroy us. These facts hare
given the last stab to agonizing affection;
and manly spirit bids to renounce for erer
these unfseling brethren. we must eradea
vor to forget our former iOue for them, and
to hold them as we hold the rest OF