National Republican., 1876-07-04


For imposing taxes on Us without our
consent.
For deprivtng us [in many casesl of the
benefits of trial by jury.
For transporting US beyond seas, to b.
tried tor pretended ofenses.
For abolishipg the free system o. English
laws in a neighbouring province, establish,
ing therein an arbitrary government, and
enlarging its boundaries so as to render ii
at once an example and fit instrument for
introducing the same absolute rule into
these States" [COlonies.l
For taking away our charters, abolish
ing our most valuable laws, and altering
Fundamentally the forms of our govern
meDts.
For suspending our own Legislatures,
and declaring themselves Invested with
power to legislate for US in all cases what
ever.
He has abdicated government here,
withdrawing his governors, and" [byl
declaring US out of his allegiance" Gprc-
lection. land waging war against us. ]
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our
coasts, burnt our towns and destroyed the
lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large
armies of foreign mercenaries to complete
the works of death, desolation and tyranny
already begun, with circumstances oi
cruelty and perfidy [scarcely paralleled in
the most barbsrous ages and totally un-
worthy the head of civilized nation.
The thee nert paragraphs in the original
uero as JoIIosos:
9" He has endeavored to bring on the iu-
babitants of our frontiers the merciless
"Indian savages, whose known rule of
warfare is an undistinguished destruction
" of all age, sexes and conditions of exist
"epce.
"He has melted reasonable insurrec-
tions of our fellow citizens, with the al
"lurcments of forfeiture and confscation
Z" Of cur property.
"He has constrained others, taken cap
Gives on thehigh seas, to bear arms against
'their country, to become the executioners
"of their friends and brethren, or to fall
themselves by their hands,
In place Of the three paragraphs erased,
these acsro tntrOducsd:
He has constrained our fellow citizens,
taken captive on the high seas, to bear
arms against their country. to become the
executioners of their friends and brethren,
or to fall themselves by their hands.
lie has excited domestic instructions
amongst us, and has endeavored to bring
on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the
merciless Indian sayages, whose known
rule of warfare is an uudistinguished de-
struction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
Tie ntst paragraph, tchich related to the
sldrc trade, uas entirely erased. 1t tcas as
,follor,:
Ik"He has waged cruel war against human
nature ITSELF violating its most sacred
" rights of life and liberty in the persons of
"a distant people. who never offended
" him, captivating and carrying them into
slavery, in another hemisphere, or to
" incur miserable death in their trans
portation thither. This piratical war
" fare, the opprobrium of infdel powers,
:" in the warfare OF q Christian king of
" Great Britain. Determined to keep open
" market where MEN should be bought
" and sold, he has prostituted his mega
tive for suppressing every legislative
" attempt to prohibit, or restrain, this
" execrable commerce; and that this as
" semblage of horrors might want no fact
" of distinguished dye, he is now exciting
q" those very people to rise in arms among
&" Us, and to purchase that liberty Of which
he has deprived them, by numbering
"the people upon whom he also obtruded
"them; thus paying of former crimes
" committed against the liberties Of one
people, with crimes which he urges
{" them to commit against the lives of
" another"
In every stage of these expressions we
have petitioned for redress, in the most hum
be terms: our repeated petitions have been
answered only by repeated injury. A
prince whose character is thus marked, by
every act which may define a tyrant, is
unfit to be the ruler of q free] people "who
''mean 10 be free. Future ages will scarce
"believe that the hardness Of one man, ad
"venturcd within the short compass Of
twelve years only, to build 4 foundation
$50 broad and undisguised, for tyranny over
"a people fostered and fixed in principles
''of freedom"
Nor have we been wanting IN attention
TO our British brethren. We have warned
them, from time to time, of attempts made
by their Legislature ''to extend jurisdic
''lion over tlese our States" Ito extend an
unwarrantable jurisdiction over us.l We
have reminded them of the circumstances
of our emigration and settlement here. ''no
zone of which could warrant SO strange
I" pretensiCn; that hese were effected at
"the expense of our own blood and treas
cure, urassisted by the wealth or the
" strength of Great Britain; that in con-
" stitutiDg indeed our several forms of
" government, we had adopted one common
" king, thereby laying foundation for per-
"petual league and amity with them; but
" that submission to their parliament was
" no part of our Constitution, not ever in
" idea, if history may be credited; and
We [havcl appealed to their nstive justice
and magnanimity, ''as well as to" land We
have conjured them byl the ties of our
common kindred, to disavow these usurpa-
tions. which "were likely to- would in
eyitably interrupt our connexions and
correspondence. They, too, have been
deaf to the voice of justice and of consan
guinity; "and when occasions have been
"given them by the regular course of their
laws, of removing from their councils
the distu1bers of our harmony. they have
"by their free elections re-established
them in power. At this very time, too,
they are permitting their chief magistrate
:" to send over not only soldiers of our
common blood, but Scotch and foreign
merccnaries to invade and destroy us.
These facts have given the last stab to
"agonizing affection, and manly spirit
bids us TO renounce forever these unfeel-
"ing brethren. We must endeavor to
forget our former love for them, and to
hold them as we hold the rest of man