The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1872-06-29
RTCHMOND ID.

King Of Great Britain is . history Of repeat
ed injuries and usurpations, ali having, in di-
rect object. the establishment of an absolute
tyranny over these States. To prove this, let
facts be submitted to candid world:
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 10 their operation till his assent
should be obtained and when so suspended,
he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other laws for the
accommodation of large districts of people
unless those people wsuld relinquish the right
of representation in the Legislature a right
inestimable to them, ind formidable to tyrants
only.
He has called together legislative bodies at
places UNUSUAL, uncomfortable, and distant
from the depository of their public records,
for the sole purpose of iatiguiDg them into
compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved represertativ houses re-
peatedly, for opposing, with manly firmuess,
his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused, for long time after such
! dissolutions, 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 remaining.
in the meantime, expo sed to all the dangers
of invasion from without. and convulsions
| within
He has endea vored to prevent the popula-
tion OF these States for that purpose, OBJ
| structiug the laws for naturalization of for
eigpers refusing TO pass others to encourage
their migration bither. and raising the con-
diiions OF new appropriations OF lands.
He has obsructed the administration tf
justice, by refusing to assent to laws for es-
tablishing judiciary powers.
He has made judges dependent on his will
alone, for the tenure Of their Offices, and the
amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected multitude of new Offices,
and sent hither s~arms Of officers to harass
our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among US in times of peace
standing arme s, without the consent of our
legislature.
He has affected to render the military in
depen dent Of, and superior to. tie civi; power.
He has Goa bined, with others. to subject US
to jurisdiction foreign to our constitution,
and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his
assent to their acts of legislation.
For qnartering large bodies of armed troops
among us
For protecting them, by mock trial, from
punishment. for any murders which they
should commit on the inhab itants of these
States;
For cutting off our trade with all parts of
the world
For imposing taxes on us without our con-
sent;
For depriving us, in many cases, of the
benefits of trial by jury;
For transporting US beyond seas to be tried
for pretended offences
For abollshng the free system of English
laws in q neighborinx province, establish ing
therein An arbitrary government, and enarg-
ing its boundaries, SO IS to render it III once
ing the same absolute rule into these colon
les;
For taking away our charters, abolishing
our mo t valuable laws, and altering, funda .
mentally. the powers of our governments;
For suspending our own legislatures, and
declaring then selves invested with power to
legislate for US in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated government here. by de-
clariDg Us out of lis protection, and waging
war sgaiust us.
He has plundered our seas, ravsged our
coasts, burnt our towns and destroyed the
lives OF our people.
He is, at this time, Transporting large ar
0, mics of foreign mercenaries to complete the
works of death, desolation , and Tyranny, al
ready begun, with circumstances of cruelty
and perfdy scarcely paralellsd in the most
barbarous ages and totally unworthy the
head of . civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow-citizens, tax
en- captive on the high seas, to bear arms
again st their country, to becoms the execu
> tiones Of their friends and brethren, or tc
fall themselves by their hands.
a. He has excited domestic instructions
amongst US, aud has endeavored to bring or
d the inhabitants of our frortiers. the merc
70 less Indian savages, whose known rule o
warfare is an undistinguished destruction, o
10 all ages, sexes, aud conditions.
In every stag Of these expressions we have
:" petitioned for redress in the most humble
" terms our repeated petitions have been an
: swered only by repeated injury. A prince
'' whose character is thus marked by every
act which may define tyrant, is unfit to b,
~ the ruler OF free people.
Nor have we been wanting in attention t
our British brethren. We have warned them
in from time TO time, of attempts made by thei
legislature to extend an unwarrantable juris
e- dict,on over US. We have reminded them O
be the circumstances Of our emigration and set
m tlement here. We have appealed to their ma
" tive justice and magnan unity, and we ha7
A. coDjured them, by the lies of our commo
a- kicdred, to disavow these usurpatious, whic
to would inevitably interrupt our connection
ey and correspondence. They, too, have bee
IN deaf to the voice OF justice and consanguinity
We mnst, therefore, acquiesce 10 the neces
-. sity, which denounces our separation, and hoi
them, as we ho! Id the rest Of mankind, enc
:. mics in warm peace, friends.
',y We. therefore, the representatives of til
ire UNI ED STATES OF AMERICA, in GEN
ed ERAL CONGRESS assembled, appealing t
I'm the Supreme Judge of the World tor the rec
Or titude Of eur intentions, do in the name an
iva BY the authority of the good people of thes
to colonies, solemnly publish and declare, Tha
pv these United Colonies are, and of right ough
ch to be, FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES tbs
ch they are absolved from all allegiance to til
to British crown, and that all political conuee
70, ton between them and Great Britain, is, an
es- ought to be totally dissolved and that, a
yht FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES. the