The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-07-05

their Offices. "a no amount and
payment Of tll6ir salaries.
He has, crested ) multitade Of
new Offices, ana sent mther swarms
Of officers TO harrass our people,
and eat out their substance. ,.fe'
He has kept among us in times
Of peace, standing armies, without
the sonsent Of our Legislature.
----He- has- a1sstsd to rendsr the
military independent of and super.
ior to, the civil power.
He has combined, with others, to
subject N to q jurisdiction foreign
to our constitution, and unacknowl-
edged to our laws; giving his a.
sent to their actl Of pretended leg
islatioAs
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 of our trade with all
parts Of the world;
For imposing taxes on us without
our cousent; -
For depriying us, IN many cases.
Of the benefits Of trial by jury.
For transporting us beyond seas
to be tried for pretended offences;
For abolishing the free system Of
English laws in neighboring pro
vince, establishing therein an arbi-
,trary government, and charging it's
boundaries, 80 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,
aboishing our most valuable laws,
and altering, fundamentally, the
! powers Of our government;
I For suspending our own legisla-
lures, and declaring themselves in
vested with power to legislate 70,
us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated government
here, by declaring us out Of hi,
protection, and waging war against
us.
he has plundered our seas, raw
aged our coasts, burnt our towns
and destroyed the lives Of our PEG
pie. 81,
s. he is, at this time, transporting
large armies Of foreign mercenaries
TO complete the work of death
desolation, and tyranny, already be-
gun, with circumstances of cruelt,
and per6dy scarcely pa,alleled il
the most barbarous ages, and total
y unworthy the head of q civilized
nation.
ar tttF
He has constrained our fellow
citizens, taken captive on the higl
seas, to bear arms against thei,
country, to become the executioner,
Of their friends and brethren, or Il
fAll themselves BY their hands.
he has excited domestic insur-
! rections amongst US, and has en-
deavored to bring on the inhabi
tants Of our frontiers, the merciles
Indian sayagea whose known rul,
of warfare is an undistinguishe.
destruction, of all ages, sexes, an.
conditions. ].
In every stage Of these oppres-
sions, We have pettoned for redres
in the most humble terms; our re
peated petitions have been answer
ed only by repeated injury. 4
prince, whose character is thu
! marked by every act which ma,
! define tyrant il unfit to be tn
ruler Of . ree people. ~ !
Nor have we been wanting in e,
tention to our British brethren
We have warned them, from tim
10 time, of attempts made by thei
| Legislature to extend a. unwarrani
able jurisdiction over us- We hav
reminded them Of the circumstan
/ oes Of our emigration and settle
ment here. We have appealed t
a their native justice and magnaninli
ty, and we have conjured them, b
the ties Of our common kindred, !
disavow these usurpAtions, whicl
would inevitably interrupt our cor
nections and correspondence. They
too, have been deaf to the voice Q
| Justice. and eonsanguinity w
must, therefore, acquiesce in tn
necessity, which denounces our ~
paration, and hold them, aswe hol
the rest of mankind, enemies i
warm peace, friends.
We, therefore, the representative
of the UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA, in GENERAL CON
GRESS assembled, appealing to tn
Supreme Judge of the World fo