Piney Woods planter and Amite union literary reflector. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1838-1838, 1838-06-30

offices, and sent hiaher sWarms Of Ill
GERS, to harrass our people and cat on
their substance.
3 Ho has kept among rs, in times o.
peace, standing armies, witEou. thc
consent of our legislatures.
lie has affected to render the milf
tary independent of, and superior 10,
the civil power.
He has combined with others, TO
subject US to jurisdiction, foreign 10
our Constitution, and unacknowledgcd
by our laws; giving his assen. TO their
acts of pretended legisla.:on;--
For quartering large bodies of arm
cd troops among US:
For protecting them by a mock tri-
al, from punishment for any murd r
which they should commit on the in
habitants of these satcs:-
For cutting off 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 oficnccs:-
For abolishing the free system OF
English law in neighbourihg pro.
vince, establishing therein an arbitrary
government, and cnlarging It's boun-
DIARIES so as to render it at once an
example and fit instrument, for miro
ducing the same absolute rnlc into
these colonies:--
For taking away our charters, abo-
fishing our most valuable laws, and
altering fundamentally the forms OF
our governmenss:---
For suspending our own Legisla-
turos- and declaring, tlegsciy,ss i ~ =,
ted with power, to legislatc Tor US ~
all cases whatsoever.
He has ahdicatcd government here,
by declaring US on. OF his protection,
and waging war against us.
He has pIundcrcd our seas, ravagcd
cur coasts, burnt our towns, and dcs-
troyed the lives Of or people.
lie is, ut this time, Transporting
large armies of foreign mcrccnarles.
to complete the works of death, desc
lation, and tyranny, already begun,
with circumstances Of cruelty and per.
fdy, scarcely parallclcd in The most
barbarous ages, and totally unworthy
the head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fcllow-citi-
zons. taken captive on the high seas,
TO bear arms against their country, TO
become the cx2cu.ioners ofthcir friends.
and brethren, or to fall Themselves by
their hands.
He has excited domestic insurrcc-
lions amongs. US, and has cndcavorcd
10 bring on the inhabitants of our from
tiers. the morciless Indian savagos,
whose known rule of warfare is an I'M
destruction of all ages,
sexes, and conditions.
In every stage Of these expressions.
we have pctitioned for redress, in Che
most humble terms: our petitions haVc
been answered only byrepeatcd injury.
A prince whose character is thus mar
ked, by every act, which may define q
tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler OF free
people.
Nor have we been wanting in attcn-
lion to our British brethren. We have
warned them, from time TO time, o! at
tclnpts made by their legislature, 10
extend an understandable jurisdiction
over IL. We have reminded them CT
the, circumstances Of our emigration
and settlement here. We have APP
pealed to their native justice and mag
and VIC have conlufcd thcm1
by the Tics of our common kindred, 10
disavow these usurpations, which would
interrupt our connections
and correspondence. They, too, have
been deaf to the voice of justice and
consanguinity. We must therefore
acquiesce in the necessity. which de-
nounces our separation, and hold them,
as we hold the rest of mankind-cne-
mics in wor;-in peace, friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives
of the United States of America, in
general Congress assembled, appeal,
ing to the Supreme Judge Of the world
for the rcctisuie Of our intentions, Do,
in the name and by the authority of
the good people of these colonies,
solomnly publish and declare, that these
United Colonies are, and of right
ought to be free and Independent
states; that they are abSolved from all
allegiance to the British crown, and