Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1874-07-04

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and TO provide new guards for their fu-
ture security. Such has been the pa
tient sufferance of the colonies, and
such is now the necessity which con-
strains them to alter their former sys-
TENS Of government. The history of
the present king Of Great Britain is a
history Of repeated injuries and usur-
pations, all having, in direct object, the
establishment Of an absolute tyranny
over these States. To prove this, let
facts be submitted to a 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 in their
operation till his assent should be OBJ
tanned; 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 these people would re-
linquish the right of representation in
the legislature; right inestimable to
them, and 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
fatiguing 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 dissolutions, to cause others to be
elected; whereby the legislative powers,
incapable of annihilation, have returned
to the people at large for their exercise;
the State remaining, in the meantime,
exposed to all the danger of invasion
from without, and commissions within.
He has endeavored to prevent the
population of these States; for that
purpose, obstructing the laws for the
naturalization of foreigners; refusing to
pass others to encourage their migration
hither, and raising the conditions of
new appropriations of lands.
He has obstructed the administration
of justice, by refusing to assent to laws
for establishing 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 swarms of Off
GERS 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, and superior to, the
civil power.
He has combined with others to sub
ject us to jurisdiction foreign to our
constitution, and unacknowledged by
our laws; giving his assent to their
acts Of pretended legislation:
For quartering large bodies Of armed
troops among US;
For protecting them, bya 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
consent;
For depriving us, in many cases, of
the benefit of trial by jury;
For transporting us beyond seas to
be tried for pretended offences; 1885,.
For abolishing the free system of
English laws in neighboring province.
establishing therein an arbitrary gov
ernment, and enlarging it's boundaries,
50 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, abol-
ishing our most valuable laws. and al
tering, fundamentally, the powers of
our governments; ..l......+...
For suspending our own legislatures.
and declaring themselves invested with
power to legislate for us in all cases
whatsoever.
He has abdiccated governmen there, by
declaring US out of his protection, and
waging war against US. -as-i s4
He has plundered our seas. rayared