American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-07-04

lice, by refusing his assent TO laws Tor estao
fishing judiciary powers.
He has made judges dependent on his will
! alone, for the tenure of their Offices, and TIL
amount and payment OF their salaries.
! He has erected multitude of new Offices
and sent hither swarms Of officers to haras
our people, and eat out their substance.
Tie has kept among us, in time Of peace
standing armies without the consent Of oul
legislatures.
He has affected to render the military indie
pendent of, and superior to, the civil power.
he has combined with others to subject u!
to jurisdiction foreign to our constitution
and unacknowledged by our laws; giving hi
assent to their acts of pretended legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops
among 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 o.
the world
For imposing taxes on Us, without our con-
sent.
For depriving us, in many cases, of the ben.
efts of trial by jury.
For Transporting US beyond seas, to be tried
for pretended offences.
For aboishiDg the free system Of English
laws in neighboring province, establishing
therein an arbitrary government, and enarg-
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 charters, aboshing
our most valuable laws, and altering, funda-
mentally, the forms of our governments.
For suspending our own legislatures, and de-
claring themselves invested with power 10 le-
gislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
| He has abdicated government here, by de-
claring US out of his protection, and waging
war against US.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our
coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the
lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large armies
Of foreign mercenaries to complete the works
OF death, desolation and tyranny, already be-
gun, with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy,
scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages
and totally unworthy the head of civiiz d
nation.
He has constrained our fellow citizens, Ia
ken captive on the high seas, to bear arms a
galnst their country, to become the execu'
TONERS of their friends and brethren or 10 fall
themselves BY their hands.
| He has excited domestic instructions a.
mongst Us and has endeavored to bring on the
inhabitants of our frontiers, the merclless In
dian savages, who known rule OF warfare is
an undistingushed destruction of all ages sex
es and conditions.
! In every stage of these operations, we have
petitioned for redress in the most humble
terms; our repeated petitions have been an.
swered 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 a free people.
Nor have we been wanting in attentions 10
our British brethren. We have warned them,
from time to time, of the attempts, by their
legislature 10 extend an unwarrantable juris-
diction over US. We have reminded them ofthe
circumstances Of our emigration and settlement
here. We have appealed TO their native JUS
tice and magnanimity, and we conjured them
by the ties of our common kindred to disavow
these usurpations, which would inevitably in.
terrupt our connexions and correspondence
| They too have been deaf to the voice of JUS
tice and of consanguinity. We must, there
! fore, acquiesce in the necessity which denounc,
es our separation, and hold them, as we hold
the rest of mankind-enemies in war; 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 rectitude of our intentions
! do, in the name and by the authority of the
good people of these colonies, solemnly pub
lish and declare, that the United Colonies are
and Of right ought to be, free and independent
States; that they are absolved from all allegi-
ance TO the British crown, and that all polili
cal connexion betae cen them and the state o
Great Britain is and ought 10 be, totally dis
solved, and that, as free and independent States
they have full power TO levy war, conclude
peace, contract alliances, establish commerce
and to do all other acts and things which in
dependent States may of right do. And fol
the support of this declaration, with firm re
lance on the protection of Divine Providence
we mutually pledge to each other our lives
| our fortunes, and our sacred honor.
ENGLISH OPINION OF THE MEXICAN WAR
Advices from the British West Indies to the
18th ult., have been received. The Barbados
West Indian, noticing our war with Mexico
says:
"The consequence will be that Britain (fol
her own sake) will aid Mexico in the ensuing
conflict, and their united powers will be toe
formidable for the combined energies of the
United States successfully to resist. Their
again, France, tempted by the overtures Of
the monarchical party in Mexico, who are sale
to be DESTROYS of having French Prince tC
reign over them, will, it is generally believed
unite at the outset, at least, her forces with
those of Britain, for the protection of the i'll
used Republic. Such combination of two
the most powerful kingdoms in the world, il
must be manifest, will, if it last but for q
month, be quite sufficient for the humiliation
of the United States, or the reduction of them
to the most humiliating condition. One or the
other of these fatal catastrophes is now await
ing the movements of the American govern
ment, and the world must prepare itself to re-
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