The Carrollton sun. (City of Carrollton, Parish of Jefferson, La.) 185?-1???, 1860-07-04


powers, incapable of annihilation, have
returned to the people at large, for
their exercise !; the state remaining, in
the mean time, exposed to all the dan
ger of invasion from without, and con-
vulsions from within.
He has endeavored to prevent the
population of these states for that pur-
pose 1Abstructing the laws for natural-
ization Of foreigners; refusing to pass
others to encourage their migration
hither, and raising the conditions 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 OF
fees, and the amount and payment of
their salaries.
He has erected multitude of new
Offices, and sent hither swarms of Of
fcers, 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 Legislature.
He has effected to render the milit-
airy independent of, and superior to,
the civil power.
He has combined with others to sub
ject US to a jurisdiction, foreign to our
constitution, and acknowledged By our
laws: giving his assent to their acts of
pretended Legislation.
I. 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 of the world:
i For imposing taxes on us without
orr consent:
For depriving us, in many cases. of
the benefits of trial by jury:
For transporting us beyond the seas,
to be tried for pretended offences:
For aholishing the free system OF
English laws in neighboring province,
establishing therein an arbitrary gov
eminent, and enlarging 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, abol-
ishing our most valuable laws, and al
tering fundamentally the powers of oul
| governments
, For suspending our own Legislatures
, and declaring themselves invested witt
, power to legislate for us in all case!
, whatsoever. fu
, He has abdicated government here
| by declaring us out OF his protection
, and waging war against us.
, He has plundered Our seas, ravage'
our coasts, burnt our towns, and de
stroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting larg
armies of foreign mercenaries to com
, plete the work of death, desolation an
: | tyranny, already begun, with circum
!, stances of cruelty and perfidy scarcel
:, paralleled in the most barbarous ages
! and totally unworthy the head of a civil
= ICED nation
:. He has constrained our fellow-citi
: zens, taken captive on the high seas, t
!, bear arms against their country, to be
= come the executioners of their friend
and brethren, or to fall themselves b
\ their hands.
: He has excited domestic insured
= tons amongst us, and has endeayore
" to bring on the inhabitants of our fror
, tiers, the merciless Indian savage
! whose known rule of warfare is an i'll
i distinguished destruction of all age
II sexes, aud conditions.
4 In every stage of these oppression
Is we have petitioned for redress in tt
% most humble terms our repeated pet
- tions have been answered only by r
= peated injury. A Prince whose cha
-, acter is thus marked by every act whit
. may define q tyrant is unfit to be tt
70 ruler of free people.
~ Nor have we been wanting in atte
8 ton to our British brethren. ave ha'
-, warned them from time to time of g
20 tempts made by their legislature to g
teed an understandable jurisdiction ov
!, us. We have reminded them of t
az circumstances of. our emigration a.
-, settlement here. We have appealed
= their native justice and paagnanimit
80 and we have conjured them by ties
10 our common kindred to disavow the
Az usurpations, which would inevitably
=. terrupt our connexions and correspo