Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1858-07-03

uSurnaliOhS, pursuing lnVaSlaOly lne ShUe
object, evinces design to reduce them under
absolute despotism, it is their duty TO throw
Off such government, and to provide new
guards for their future security. Such has
been the patient sulferance of these colonies;
and such is now the necessity which coa.
strains them to alter the former system Of
government. The history of the present
king Of Great Britain, is history Of repeated
injuries and usurpations, all having in direct
object, the establishment Of an absolute ty-
ranny over these states. TO prove this, let
facts be submitted to q candid world:
Ho has refused his to assent laws the most
wholesome and necessary for the public good
He has forbidden his governors to pass
laws Of immediate and pressing Importance,
unless suspended in their operation, till his
assent should be obtained and when so sus-
pended, be has utterly neglected to attend to
them. He has refused to pass other laws for
the accommodation Of large districts orpeople
unless these people would relinquish the
right of representation in the lpgislature--a
right inestmable to them and formidable 10
tyrants only.
lie has called together legislative bodies
at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant
from the repository Of their public records
for the sole purpose of futiguiug them into
OI'plIuuCe Win us ultuSuIbS.
He has dissolved representative houses re-
peatedly, for opposing. with manly frmness
his invasions on the rights Of the people
He has refused for a long time after such
dSsolutions, to cause others to be elected ;
whereby the legislative powers, incapable Of
annihilation, have returned TO the people at
large for their exercise. the state remaining
in the meantime exposed to all the dangers
Of invasion from within and couyulsions with
in.
lie has endeavored to prevent the popula-
tion of these states; for that purpose OBJ
structing the laws for naturalization Of for
egners refusing to pass others to encourage
their migration hither, and raising the con.
ditons Of new appropriations Of land.
llo has obstructed the administration Of
Justice, by refusing his assent TO laws for es-
tabllshing judiciary powers.
lie las made judges dependent on his will
alone, for the tenure Of their Offices and the
amount aud payment of their salaries.
lie has erected multitude of officers, and
sent hither swarms Of officers, to hnrrass our
people, and eat ont their substance.
He has kept among us in times Of peace
standing armies, without the consent OF our
legislatures.
lie has affected to render the military inie.
! pendendent OF, and superior to, the civil pow
/ cr.
lie has combined with others TO subject Us
TO jurisdiction foreign to our constitution
and unacknowledgeJ by our laws; giving his
assent to their acts Of pretended legislation
| For Qurteriny large bodies Of armed troops
| among US:
! For protecting them, by mock trial, from
punishment, for any murders which they
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states
! For emitting of 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
eft of trial by jury:
For transporting us beyond seas, 10 b.
tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free system Of En2isl
laws in a neighboring province, establishing
therein an arbitrary government, and enlarg
ing its boundaries so as to render il at ono,
an example and ct instrument for introdu
cling the same absolute rule into these colo
MES:
For taking away our charters, aboiishin!
our most valuable laws, and altering funda
mentally, the forms OF our government:
For suspendlpg our own legislatures anC
declaring themselves invested with powe
to le9islate for US in all cases whatsoever:
lie has abdcnted goyerumeu: here, by dc
clarng MS out OF his protection, and waginl
war against us.
lie has plundered our seas, ravagod onl
coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed tht
lives of our people.
lie is at this time transporting large or
mics of foreign mercenaries, to complete the
work of death desolatiou and tyranny alrea
dy begun, with circumstances OF cruelty anC
perildy, scarcely pare!leled in the mos. bar
barous, ages, and totally unworthy the heaC
Of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow citizens, Ia
ken captive on the high seas, TO bear arms
against their country, to become the execH
TONERS Of their friends and brethern, or to Ial
themselves by their hands.
lie has excited domestic insurrection!
against US, and has endeavored to bring OF
the inhabitants Of our frontiers, the merclIes
Indian savages, whose known rule Of wartar,
is an undistingnished destruction of all ages
sexes and conditions,
In every stage of these oppression We hav
petitoned for redress in the most humG.
terms only by repeated injury.
a prince, whose character is thus mar&e
by every act which may define tyrant,
unfit TO be the ruler Of a free people.
Nor have we been wanting in attention t
our British brethren. We have warned ther
from time to time or attempts by their legj;
ature TO extend an unwarrantable juriSdiC
ton over us. We have reminded them {
the circustances of our emigration and sci
tlemeut here. We have appealed TO thei
native Justice and magnanimity and we bay
coniured them, by the ties Of our commo
kindred to disavow these usurpations, whlc
would inevitably interrupt Our connection
and correspondence. They too have bee
, deaf to the voice Of justice and Of cousauguiI
ity. We must therefore acquiesce in the N
cessity which denounces our separation, an
hold them. as we hold the rest Of mGukin
enemies in ar-iH peace, friends.
We therefore, the representatives, OF Il
United States of America in general col
gress assembled appealing TO the supren
, Judge OF the world, FOR the rectilude OF OF
intentions, do in the name aud by the a
thority of the good people OF these Unlte
! Colonies are, and Of right ought TO be, fri
/. and independent states; that they are a
solved from all allegiance to the British CROW
aud that all political connexion between the
and the state of Great Britain, is, and ouaI
a TO be. totally dissolved; aud that as In
q aud independent states, they have full pow
! TO lew war, conclude peace, contract ailia
n ces. establish commerce, and to do oil 9th
y acts and things which independen, sta,
NAV of ripht do And for the support OF ID