Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-07-12
THE Fourth of July.

submitted a few facts to a candid world,
from which we expect to make extracts to-
day. We are thus particular to state before
hand the source from whence we draw these
facts, fearing those in power, not seeing the
strange difference between "tweedledum
and tweeledee," or unobservant OF the foot
note that ninety-one years is supposed to
elapse between the acts, might do us the
gross injustice to suppose for an instance
that the facts were our own, the time was
the present year, and the offenders the Con
gress of the United States and our military
commanders, instead of the King of Great
Britain. Truly does history repeat itself.
Among other charges submitted" by
our disloyal sires were the following:
He has refused his assent to laws 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.
He has refused to pass other laws for the
accommodation of large districts of people
unless those people would relinquish the
right of representation i'll the legislature Il
right inestimable to them and formidable to
tyrants only.
He has dissolved representative houses
repeatedly for opposing with manly firm
ness his inyasions on the rights of the peo-
pie.
He has INSTRUCTED 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
He has erected multitude of new offices,
and 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
legislature.
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 outlaws /; CIV
ing his assent to their acts of pretended
legislation
For quartering large bodies of armed
troops among us:
For protecting them, by u mock trial.
from punishment for any murders which
they may commit on the inhabitants of
these States
For imposing taxes on US without our
consent:
For depriving US, in many cases, of the
benefits of trial by jury:
For taking away our charters, abolishing
our most valuable laws, and altering, fun
damentally, the powers of our governments ::
For suspending our own Legislatures,
and declaring themselves invested with
power to legislate for us in all cases what
ever.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our
coasts, burnt our towns and destroyed the
lives of our people.
He has excited domestic instructions
amongst US.
In every stage of these expressions we
have petitioned for redress, in the most
humble terms; our repeated petitions have
been answered only by repeated injury.
What terrible bill of Indictment, but
true every word of it, and would have been
none the less so if in the wager of battle, to
which it was referred for arbitrament, an
unfavorable issue had converted our glori-
Gus revolutionary patriots into outlawed
rebels. To extol their virtues, to commem-
70 k6oi1. RI IN ho1r
memories, to assemble around the national
altar upon this, the natal day, of the coun-
try, in honor of their wisdom, their patriot
ism. their suffering and their heroism, is
the sunanaum 6onuna of loyalty.
Jealous admirers must, however, recol-
these honored and revered men pledged
their lives, their fortunes and their sacred
honor, to support each other in resisting
the tyranny under which they suffered. To
complain of similar tyrannies now, by our
own Government, is the hight of disloyalty
and treason, and we would hardly feel war
ranted in making the above extracts, did
we not know in what honored veneration
the men who spread them before the world
were held by the American people
We can only again warn those who may
read the above extracts, not to confuse men
and dates, or else what might be very
harmless and commendable occupation of
portion of this day will become a heinous
and objectionable sin. We might feel in
clined to excuse them, on account of an ap-
parent similarity that might justify so great
an error, but the "powers that be" could
not be expected to wink at it.
Daily Journal, July 4.
The Presidents Policy.