Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1839-07-04

mas refused 10 pass Olner laws Tor the accom-
notation Of large districts of people, unless
those people would relnqush the right of rep
resentation in the legisIature-a right nesti-
mable to them, and formidable to tyrants only
He has called together legislative bodies at
places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant
from the repository OF their public records, for
the sole purpose oliatiguing them into compIi
anGWwith his measures.
lie has dissolved Representative Houses re-
peatedly, for opposing, with manly lirmness,
his invaslons on the rights Of the PEG b.
He has refused for a long time after such dis
solutions, to cause others to be elected where
Iby the legislative powers, incapable of annihi-
laton, have returnet TO the people at large for
their exercise, the State remaining, in the
mean time, exposed to all the dangers of inva-
sion from without, and commissions within.
He has endeavored TO prevent the population
of these States; for that purpose obstructing the
laws Of naturalization offoreigners; refusing to
pass others TO encourage their migration hth-
or, and raising the conditions of new appropri-
atoms OF lands.
lie has INSTRUCTED the administration of JUS
tice, by refusing his assent to laws for estab-
hshing judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his will
alone, for the tenure ofther Offices, and the "a
mount and payment oftheir salaries.
lie has erected multitude of new offices,
and sent hither swarms Of officers, to harasS
our people, and eat out their Substance.
lie has kept among US, in times Of peace,
standing armies, without the consent ofour lc-
Igslatures
| He has affected 10 render the military, indie
pendent Of, and superior to, the civil power.
He has combined with others to subject US
to jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution, ard
junacknowlcdged by our laws; giving his assent
to their acts of pretended legisIaton:
For quartering large bodies Of armed troops
Iamong US:
For protecting them, by mock trial, from
punishment for any murders which they should
commit on the Inhabitants Of these States:
For cutting off our trade with all parts of the
world.
For imposing taxes on US without our con-
sent:
For depriying us, in many cases, of the ben
efits Of trial by jury;
For transporting US beyond seas to be tried
for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free system Of English
laws in a neighboring province, establishing
therein an arbitrary government, and enar-
Iglng its boundaries, so as 10 render it at an
example and fit instrument for introducing the
same absolute rule into these colonies.
For taking away our charters, abolishing|
our most valuable laws, and altering, lunda-
mentally, the forms of our governments:
For suspendng our own legislatures, and de.
clarng themselves invested with power to le-
gisIate for us in all cases whatsoever.
lie has abdicated government here, by de-
IcIaring us out Of his protection, and wagingI
war against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our
coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives
of our people.
lie is at this time Transporting large armies
of foreign mercenaries to complete he works
| Of death, desolaton, and tyranny, already be-
gun with circumstances Of cruelty and perfdy,
scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages,
and totally unworthy the head Of a civilized
nation.
lie has constrained our fellow-ctizens, taken
captive on the high seas, to bear arms against
their country, to become the oXecutioners OF.
their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves
by their hands.
He has excited domestic instructions a.
mongst us, and has endeavoured 10 bring on
| the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless
Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare
is an undistnguished destruction of all ages,
sexes, and conditions.
In every stage Of these expressions we have
petitoned for redress in the most humble terms ::
our repeated petitions have been answered only
by repeated injury, A prince, whose charac-
ter is thus marked by every act which may de-
fine tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler OF a free
people.
Nor have we been wanting in attentions tot
our British brethren. We have warned them,
from time TO time, Of attempts by their legisla-
lure to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction
over us. We have reminded them OF the CIR
cumsiances of our emigration and settlement
here. We have appealed to their native JUS
tlce and magnanimity, and we have conJured
them by the ties Of our common kindred to dis
avow these usurpations, which would inevta-
bly, interrupt our connexions and correspon-
dence. They too have been deaf to the voice
OF justice and Of consanguinlty, We must
therefore, ocquesce in the necessity which de-
.nounces our separation, and hold them, as we
hold the rest Of mankind in war, mi
peace friends.
We, therefore, the representatives OF the
United States Of America, in General Congress
assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge OF
the world for the rectitudo Of our inlentlons,I
do, in the name and by the authority Of the good
people Of these colonies, soemnly publish and
declare, that these United Colonies are, and of