The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-07-04

BE has ferbidden bis governors to pass
| laws Of. immediate and pressing impor-
| lance, unless suspended in their opera
ltion till bis assent should be obtained;
and, when so suspended, he has utterly
neglected to attend to them 60,
He has refused to pass ofher Jaws iot
the accommodation of large dlstIlcts VI
people, unless those people w9nld ..ls.in,
auish the right of representation III III, ono
legislatures right lnestlma9le u !noin'
and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legisiaIese o ~
led at places unusual uhcolpiVio nv:
and distant from the repository OF theif T
public records, for the sole purpose Oh
| fatiguing them into compliance VITA MS
He has dissolved representative houses
I. repeatedly for opposing WIN many
firmness his invasions on the rights Vi
the people. 49,. or.ar
such dissolutions, to cause ot9crs TO or 70
| elected; whereby the legislative powers
Incapable of humiliation, have returneu
to the people at large for their exercise
the state remaining, IN the meanIino'
exposed to all the dangers OF INVASION
from without and commissions WlGhlu.
He has endeavored to prevent the pop,
ulation of these States-for tnat purpose
obstructing the laws OF naturalization ol
foreigners, refusing to pass others 10 en-.
courage the migration hither, and raislhg
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 MS
i will alone for tenure of their oflces
and the amount and payment OF their
salaries. ls.,5I =,
He has erected multitude of new OF
fees, and sent hither swarms OF officers
; to harrass our people and eat out thelr
substance acif1t- "'
, He has kept among US, in times OF
! peace, standing armies, withoat the con-
= sent of our Legislatures.
He has affected to render the military
independent Of and superior to, the CIVIL
!. power. ,...
He has combined with others to subject
. | us to a jurisdiction foreign to our consul
tuition, and unacknowledged by our laws
t giving his assent to their acts of pre-
tended legislation. aTsE1
For quartering large bodies of armed
troops among us; r-f.-sl s.r..a..
: For protecting them, by mock trial
T from punishment for any murder which
they should commit on the inhabitants OF
. these States;
For cutting off our trade with all parts
of the world
For imposing taxes on us without our
consent;
For depriving u.s. in many cases, of the
benefits Of trial by jury =
For transporting us beyond seas to be
tried for pretended offences; ,'
For ab3lishiug the free system of Eng
lish laws in a neighboring province, es-
tablisbing therein an arbitrary govern
ment, and charging its boundaries, so as
| To render it at once an example and TT
, instrument for Introducing the same alb,
solute rule into these colonies
. For taking away our charters, abolish
ing our most valuable laws, and alter
J. ing, fundamentally, the forms Of our gov
O ernments;
For suspending our own Legislatures
g and declaring themselves invested witt
f power to legislate for us i'll all ciasse
n whatsoever.
lie mas hCIO ".
declaring us out Of his protection ant
7 waging war against us. ,rl
He has pludered our seas, ravaged Uu
coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed
the lives Of our people.
He is at this time transporting iarg'
. armies of foreign meTcenaries to complete
J, the works of death, desolation and tyran
r ny, already begun, with circumstances o
cruelty and perfidy scarcely parallelet
Q in the most >barbarous ages, aud total,
+ unworthy the head of a civilized nation
r He has constrained our lel'oT.-ltizens
( taken captive or the high seas, 10 bea
!. arms against their country, to become
: the executoners of their friends anC
G brethren OF TO fall themselves ny their
;. hands
t He has excited domestic lusu ERECTION
q among us, and has endeavored TO bring
on the inhabitants of our frontiers the
merciless Indian savages, whose known
rule of warfare is an unGistlrEnlShed
. destruction of all ages, sexes. AID con
ditions.
In every stage of these oppTess!ogs, we
have petitioned for redress in the most
humble terms. Our repeated petitions
I nave DGeD answered only Dy Itp'a|th
injury A prince, whose character is
thus marked by every act which may
define tyrant is unfit to he the inlcr of
free people.
Nor have we been wanting III atteu.
tons to our British brethren W" have
warned them, from time to TIM. of at
tempts by their legislature, to extend an
understandable jurisdiction over us We
have reminded them of the circumstances
of our emigration and settlement here.
We have appealed to their native iIstice
and magnanimity, and we have COM ured
them, by the ties of our common kindred,
, to disavow these uSupations which
would inevitably interrupt our conneX-
ions and correspondence. They, 100,
have been deaf to the voice Of lpstice
and of cOnsanguiuity. We must, there.
fore, acquieSce in the necessity which
denuunees our separation and hoFi chem
as we hold the rest of mankind enemies
in war, in peace, friends.
We, therefore, the representatives of
the United States of America i'll general
Congress assembled, appealing to the SUI
preme Judge of the World for the recti.
tude of our intentions, do in the name,
and by the authority of the good people
of these colonies, solemnly publish and
declare THAI these united celonic> are,