The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-07-07

ing, IN the meantime, exposed to oil the dan.
gers OF invasion from without, and convul.
sions within
He has endeavored to prevent the popu.
latlon OF these States; for that purpose OBJ
structing the laws for naturalization Of for
eigners refusing to pass others TO encourage
their migrations hither, and raising the con.
.ditiobs of new appropriations OF lands.
He has obstructed the administration of
justice, by refusing his assent TO laws for
establishing judiciary powers.
He has made judges dependent on his
will alone, for the tenure Of their offices,
and the amount and payment Of their sala.
ries.
He has erected multitude Of new Offices.
and sent hither swarms Of officers, TO harass
our people and eat out their substance.
He has kept among US in times Of peace,
standing armies, without the consent Of our
legislatures.
He has affected TO render the military in
dependent Of, and superior to, the civil
power.
He has combined with Others to subject
US to jurisdiction foreign to our constitu-
ton, and unacknowledged by our laws /;
giving his assent to their acts Of pretended
legislation
For quartering large bodies Of armed
troops among US:
For protecting them, by q mock trial,
from punishment 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 without our
consent;
For depriving US, in many cases, Of the
benefit Of trial BY jury;
For transporting US beyond the seas to be
tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free system OF English
laws in q nsighboring province, established
therein an arbitrary government, and en-.
larging its boundaries, so as to render it at
once an example and fit instrument for in.
Producing the same absolute rule into these
colonies;
For taking away our charters. abolishng
our most valuable laws, and altering funda.
mentally the forms Of our governments
For suspending our own legislatures, and
declaring themselves invested with power to
legisIate for Us in all cases whatsoever
lie has abdicated government here, by
declaring rs out Of his protection and wag.
gng war against US.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our
coasts, burnt our towns and destroyed the
lives OF our people.
He 10 at this time transporting large ar
mics of foreign mcrcenaries TO complete the
works OF death, desoation, and tyranny, al
ready begun with circumstances OF cruelty
and perfdy, scarcely paralleled in the most
bsrbsrous 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
agains. their country, to become the execn'
TONERS Of their friends and brethren, or to
fall themselves by their bands.
He has excited domestic Instructions
amonsgt Us, and has endesvored to bring on
the inhabitants Of our frontiers the merci-
less Indian savages, whose known rule OF
warfare is an undistinguished destruction OF
all ages, sexes and condition.
In every stage OF these expressions we
have pe,ltioned for redress in the most hum
BILE terms. Our repeated petitions have BEEN
answered only by repeated injury. A
prince, whose character is thus marked by
every act which may define tyraDt, IA unit
to he the ruler OF free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions
to our British brethren. We have wsrned
them, from time to time, Of attempts by their
legislature 10 extend an unwarrantable ju.
risdicti0n over us. We have reminded them
OF the circumstances Of our emigration ami
settlement here. We have Appealed 20 their
native justice and msgnanimi,y and We
have coDared them by the ties OF oar com
mon kindre4 to disavow these usurpations,
which would inevitably interrupt our con
nec,ions aud correspondence. They too have
been deaf TO the voice oi justice aud Of con
sanguDltv. We must. therefore. acquIesce
10 the necessity which den9unces our spa
ration, and bod them "a We hold the rest ol
mankind, enem ~ IN war, 10 pscs friends.
We, Therefore, the representatives OF the
UxIrgD STATE. ~ AsEEIcA, in general
i congress assembled, appealing 70 the "a
/ preme Judge Of the world ior the rec'itude
/ OF our intentions, do, 10 the name, and b.
the authority Of the good p'opIs Of ,hese
coionis4, ADlemnly pabIish aod declare, that
( thee Cni'et Colonie. ar, and OF right
ouybt % b. FREE AND IsDEPESDgSr STATE
,hs, they arr ab.olvs1 from all allegiance 20
the British erosn and that oil political con
nec,ioo be, sen them and the state OF Grea,
Britain is. and ought 10 be totally Dissolved