The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1850-07-03

should be obtained; and when so suspended,
he has utterly neglected 10 attend TO them
lie has refused to pass other laws for the ac-
commodallOn Of large districts of people, un>
less they would relinquish the night ol repre-
seniatiop in the legslature--a right inesIle.
mable to them, and formidable 10 iyrunis only.
lie has called together Legislative bodies al
places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant
from the repository of their public records
for lhe sole purpose of faliguing them into
compliance with mis- measures.
lie has dissolved representative houses
repeatedly for opposing with manly frmnessl
his invasIons on The rights of the people.
He has refused, for long time after such
dssolulons, to cause others 10 be elected !;
whereby the legislative powers, incapable Of
annihiation, have returned 10 the people at
large, for their exercise; the s.ate remaining,
in the meantime, exposed 10 all the dangers
Of invasion from without, and commissions
within
He has endeavored TO prevent the popula-
ton of these states; for that purpose o3struct.
ing the laws IOr the naturalization Of foreign
ers, refusing TO pass others TO encourage
their migration hither, and raising tie Gun
dIions OF new appropriations of lands.
lie has obsructed the administration of
justice, by refusing his assent to laws Tor es.
Iablishing judiciary powers.
lie has made judges dependent on his
w,Il alone, for the tenure of ,heit Offices,
and the amount and payment Of their salaries.
lie has erected multitude of new offices,
and sent hilhor sworms OF officers, 10 harass
our population, and eat oul their substance,
He has kept among us, in iime of peace
standing armies, without the consent OF our
legislature.
lie has affected 10 render the military IN
dependent OF, and superior to the civil power.
lie has combined with others to subject us
to q jurisdiction iCreign TO our constitution,
and uiacknowitdged by oui laws; giving his
assent to their acts OF pretended legislation
For qualtcElng large bodies oIaImed 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 ol
the World:
For imposing taxes On us wlhoutour con
sent:
For Gcpriving US, in many caseI, of the
benefits oil trial by jury:
Fot transporting us beyond seas, 10 be
tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free system of English
laws IN neighboring province, establishing
therein an arbitrary govermenland enIarging
Is boundaries, SO as to render il al once an
example and fit instrument for introducing
he same absolute rule into these colonies:
For taking away uur charters a3oishng ouT
most valuable laws, and altering lundamen'
ally the forms of Our governments.
For suspeud,ng our own legislatures, and
declaring themselves invested with power te
egisIato for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdjcaled government, here by de-
cIaring US out otnls protection aud waging wal
1gaiast US.
lie his plundered our SEES, ravaged on
coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the
lives of our people.
lie is at this time transporting large armic:
of foreign merccnaries to co mpote the worl
of death, dissolution and tyrnnny,already be
gun. with circumstances Of cruelty and perfidy
scarcely paralle ia the most harbarinu,
lagos, and totally unworthy the head Of ;
civilized nation.
lie has constrained our fellow citizens takeI
captive on thohigh seas to become the exc
.culioncrs Of their friends and brolhren o
fall themselves by their hands.
II, bos nvctcJ dpyonstio inc,,ry q cfinro opoon,
US, and has enGeavored 10 bring on the inh1b
tanis o. our frontiers, the merclless indiar
savages whose known rule of warfare IS al
'undislnguihed destruction OF all ages, sexes
and conditions.
In every stage OF these expressions we
have potiioped for redress, in the most um
be terms. Oar repeated petitions have been
answered oAly by repeated injury. A prince
whose character is thus marked, by every act
which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the
ruler of a free people.
Nor have we been wanting in attention tc
our British brethren. We have warned then
from time to time, of attempts nude by theiI
legislature, to extend an unwarrantable iuris.
dIction over US. We have reminded them
Of the circumstances OF our emigration and
settlement here. We have appealed to their
native justice and mognanimity, and we have
conjured them by the ties of our common
kindred, to disavow these usurpations, which
would inevitably interrupt our connection
and correspondence. They too have been
deaf to the voice ofiustice and consanguinity
We must, therefore, acquiesce in the neces
eity, which dcnounces our separation, and
hold them, as we hold tho rest of mankind
enemies in par, in peace friends.
We, therefore, the representatives Of the
United States ofAmerca in general Congress
assembled, appealing 10 the Supreme Judges
Of the world for the rectilude of our inten-
tons, do, it The name and by the authority OF
the good people Of these colonies, 8olemnly
publish and declare hnt these united colo.
MES, arc, and of right ought TO be Free and
Independent States, that they are absoIved from
all allegiance to the British Crown and that
all political connection between them and
the state of Great Britain is and ought to be
totally dissolved; and that as free and indie
pendent states they have full power 10 levy
war, conclude peace, contract alliances, es-
tablsh commerce, and to do all other nets
and things which independent states may oI
right do And for the support Of this dec.
laration, with firm reliance on the pro
lection of Divine Providence, VIC mutually
p'edgo to each other our Hpes our fortunes
and our sacred honor.
Signed by the order ana in behalf of the
Congress.
JOHN HANCOCK, President
CHARLES THOMSON, Secretary.