The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1845-07-05
IN, Md, SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 1916.

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" He has re fused his assent to laws, the
most wholesome and necessary for the
public good.
Gle has forbidden his governors to
pass laws of immediate and pressing i'm
portance, unless suspended in their ope.
ration, till his assent should be obtained;
and, when so suspended, he has utterly
neglected to attend to them. He has
refused to pass other laws for the accom-
mediation Of large districts of people, un-
less those people would relinquish the
right cf representation in the legislature
a right inestmable TO them, and rormida..
BILE to tyrants only.
Gle has called together legislative bod
les at places unusual, uncomfortable, and
distant from the repository other public
records, for the sole purpose of fatigu-
ing them into compliance with his mea.
sures.
"IIe has dissolved representative hou-
ses repeatedly, for opposing, with manly
frmness, his invasions on the rights of
our people.
ale has refused, for long time after
such dissolulions, TO cause others TO be
elected; whereby, the legislative pow
ers, incapable of humiliation, have return
ed to the people at large, for their exer-
else, the state remaining, in the mean
time, exposed to all the dangers of inva-
sion from without, and commissions with
in.
ole has endeavored to prevent the pop
ulation of these states; for that purpose,
obstructing the laws for naturalization of
foreigners; refusing to pass others to en-
courage their migration hitler, and rails
ing the condition of new appropriations OF
lands.
she has obstructed the administration
Of justice, by refusing his assent to laws
for establishing judiciary powers.
"Ile has made judges dependent on his
will alone, for the tenure of their offices,
and the amount and payment Of their sal
aries.
'IIe has erected multitude Of new
offices, and sent hi,het swarms of officers,
to harass our people, and eat out our sub
stance.
'Ile has kept among us, in times of
peace, standing mics, without the con-
sent of our legislatures.
"Ile has affected to render the military
independent Of, and superior, to, the civil
power.
Gle has combined with others to sub
ject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our
constitution, and unacknowledged by our
laws; giving his assent to their acts of
pretendel legislation, for quarerng large
bodies of armed troops among us; for pro-
tecting them, by mock trial, from punish
ment for any murders which they should
commit on the inhabitants Of these States,
for cutting of our trade with all parts of
the world: for imposing taxes on us with
out our consent: for deprivng us, in
many cases, Of the benefits of trial by jus
ry: for transporting us beyond seas TO be
tried for pretended offences; for abolishing
the free system Of English laws in
neighboring province, establishing there
in an arbitrary government, and enlarg-
| ing its boundaries, so as to render it at
once an example and fit instrument for
introducing the same absolute rule into
these colonies; for taking away our char
tiers, abolishing our most valuable laws,
and altering fundamentally, the forms Of
our governments. for suspending our own
legislatures, and declaring themselves in
vested with power to legislate for us in
all cases whatsoever
Gle has abdicaled government here, by
declaring us out Of his protection, and
waging war against us.
ole has plundered our seas, ravaged
our coasts, burnt our towns, and des-
troyed the lives of our people.
''IIe is at this time transporting large
armies of foreign mercenaries to complete
the work of death, desolaion, and tyran.
ny, already begun with circumstances of
cruelty and perlidy, scarcely parallelled
in the most batbarous ages, and totally
unworthy the head of civilized nation.
"lIe 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 breth>
rem, or to fall themselves by their hands.
"FIe has excited domestic instructions
amongst us, and has endeavored to bring
on the inhabitants Of our frontiers, the
merciless Indian savages, whose unknown
rule Of warfare is an undistingulshed des-
truction of all ages, sexes, and conditions.
In every stage of these expressions, we
have pettioned for redress, in the most
humble terms: our repeated petitions have
been answered only by repeated injury.
A prince whose character is thus marked
by every act which may define tyrant,
is unfit to be the ruler Of free people.
"Nor have we been wanting in at,en-
ton to our British brethren. We have
warned them, from time to time, of at
tempts made by their legislature to ex-
tend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over
us. We have reminded them Of the cir