Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-11-23

Editors PafytoL:-The extre me men ia our
country, who are eudeavoring to destroy our
Government, attempt to make their present
position parallel with that of our Revolu-
tiOnary ancestors. They may mislead some
of our people. unless the effort is counteraet-
ed by the truth. 1t was deemed necessary,
in I776, to proclaim to the world that,
when in the course Of human events. it be-
comes necessary for one people to dissolve
the political bands which have connected
them with another, and to assume among the
powers of the earth, the separate and equal
station 10 which the laws of nature and OF
uarure's God entiile them, decent respect
for the opinions of mankind requires that
they should d. clare the causes which impel
them TO the sepa, alton" Accordingly, the
trainers of the Declaration OF Independence
proclaimed to the world the reasons for their
course, saying that "The history of the pre-
sent King of Great Britain is a history of re-
peated injuries and usurpations, all having
ia direct object the establishment of an abso-
lutte tyranny of these States. To prove this,
let facts be submitted 10 candid wo Id"
He has refused his assent to 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-
| pend d. he has utterly eglected to attend to
| Ihem.'
He has refused to pass other laws for the
| accommodation OF large districts of people,
unless those people would relinquish the
| right of representation in the Legislature;
| right utstimable to them and formidable to
tyrants only
He has called together legislative bodies
at places unusual, uncomfortable, AMI dis
tant from the depository of their public re-
cords, for the sole purpose of iatiguing them
into compliance with his measures"
He has dissolved representative houses
repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness
his invasions on the rights of the people,"
''He has refused for long time after such
dissoIutions, to cause others to be elected,
whereby the legislative powers, Incapable of
humiliation. have returned to the people at
large, for their exercise; the State, remain
ing in the mean time, exposed to all the dam
gers of invasions from without aud conyul-
sions within"
"He has endeavored TO prevent the popula
ton of these States; for that purpose Oh
structing the laws for naturalization of for
eigEers; refusing to pass others to encourage
their migration hither, aud raising the con-
ditions of new appropriations of lands''
He has INSTRUCTED the administration of
Justice, by refusing his assent to laws for es-
tablishing Judiciary powers" $3.50
HE has made judges dependent on his will
alone for the tenure of their offices, and the
amount of payment of their salaries"
He has erected multitude Of new offices
aud sent hither swarms of officers to harrass
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
independent of, aud superior TO, the civil
power.v TE
He has combined with others to subject us
to Jurisdiction foreign to our constitution,
and unacknowledged by our law; giving
his assent TO their acts of pretended legisla-
tion.;, -
For quartering large bodies of armed
troops among Us. 41e1 e =:
I For protecting them, by mock trial, from