Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1848-06-29

while evils are Sufterable, than 10 rlSht lhtH-
selves by abolishine the forms 10 which
they are accustomed. But. when long
train of abuses and usurpalions, pursuing
invariably the same object, evnces design
to reduce them under absolute despollsm, IT
is their right, it is their duty, to throw OH
such government, and to provide new guards
for their future security. Such has been The
patient sufferance of the colonies, and such
is now the necessity which constants them
to alter their former systems OF government.
The history of the present king of Great
Britain is history of repeated injuries and
usurpalions, all having, in direct object, the
establishment of an absolute tyranny over
these states. To prove this, let facts be
submitted TO candid world: He has relus
led his assent 10 laws the most wholesome
and necessary for the public good. lie has
forbidden his governors to pass laws Of i'm
mediate and pressing importance, unless
suspended in their operations till his assent
should be obtained; and, when so suspend
ed, he has utterly neg ectedto attend to them
He has refused to pass other laws for the
accommodation of large districts Of people,
unless those people would reinquish the
right of representation in the legislature a
right ines,imable 10 them and formidable
to ,yrants only. He has called together le
legislative bodies at places unusual, uncom-
Ifortable. and distant from the repository of
their public records, for the sold purpose Of
(atiguing them into compliance with his
measures. lie has dissolved representative
houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly
6rmness, his invasions Oh the rights of the
people. He has refused, for long time
after such dssolulionS, 10 cause others to
be elected: whereby the legislative powers,
incapable of annihilation, have returned TO
the people at large for their exercise the
stale remaining, in the mean time, exposed
to all the dangers of invasion from without,
and convuIsions within. He has endeavoI-
ed to prevent the population oilhese states
for that purpose, obstruclng the laws Of ma
,uraiza.ion of foreigners, refusing to pass
others 10 encourage their migration ihilher,
and raising the condition of new approprla-.
tons of lands. He has INSTRUCTED the ad
min slra,ion Of Justice, by refusing his assent
to laws for establishing Judiciary powers
He has made judges dependent on Slis will
alone, for the tenure Of their offices, and the
amount and payment of their salaries. lie has
erected a multitude Of new offices, and sent
hilher swayms of officers to harrass our peo-
pie, and eat on, their substance. He has kept
among US in time Of peace standing armies.
without the consent of our legislatures. He
has affected to render the military indepen-
den, Of, and superior To, The civil power. He
has combined, with others, 10 subject us to
jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and
unacknov edged by our laws; giving his
assent to their acts Of pretended legislation.
For qnarlering large bodies of armed troops
among US. Forprotec,ing them. by mock
trial, from punishment, for any murders
which they should commit on the inhabi
lan,s Of these states: For cutting off our
trade with all paris of the world: For i'm
posing taxes on Us without our consent !:
For depriving Us, IN many cases. of the bene
fit of trial by jury For transporting Us
beyond seas to be lried for pretended often
ces For abolshing the free system Of Eng
lish laws in a neighborIng province, eslab
fishing therein an arbitrary government, and
enlarging its boundaries SO as to render it
d, once an example and fit instrument for
introducing the same absolute rule into these
colonies For taking away our charters, a.
polishing our most valuable laws, and alter
ing, fundamentally, the forms of our govern
menls: For suspending our own legislatures,
and declaring themselves invested with pow
/ err to legslae for us in all cases whatsoever
! He has abdicaled government here, by de-
claring US out Of his protection, and waglng
war against us. He has plundered our seas,
ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and
destroyed the lives of our people. lie is al
/ this time, transporting large armies of TO-
reign mercenares 10 complete the works OF
death, desoIalion, and tyranny, already be-
gun, with circumstances of cruelty and per-
iddy scarcely PARALLEL in the most barba-
rous ages, and totally unworthy the head Of
a civilized nation. He has constrained our
fellow citizens, taken captive on the high
seas, TO bear arms against their country, to
become the eXecniloners Of their friends and
brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands
He has excited domestic Instructions a.
mongst us, and has endeavored 10 bring on
The inhabitants of our frontiers. the merci-
less indian SaVageS, whose Known rule oil
warfare is an undslnguished destruction of
all ages, sexes, and conditions. In every
stage of these expressions, we have petition
ed 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 lyrant, is unfit to be the ruler
of free people.
Nor have we been wanting in attentions
to our British brethren. We have warned
them, from time to time, of the attempts, by
their Legislature, to extend an unwarranlabe
jurisdiction over us. We have reminded
them of the circumstances of our emigration
and settlement here. We have appealed
to their native justice, and magnanlmity, and