Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-04

till his assent should be obtained; and whe1
so suspended he has utterly neglected to at
| tend to them.
He has refused to pass other laws for tn,
accommodation of large districts of people
unless those people would relinquish til,
right of representation in the Legislature
right inestimable to them, and formldabl,
to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies
at places unusual, uncomfortable and distant
from the repository 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 firm
ness, his lnvaslons on the rights OF the peo-
| pie.
He has refused, for a 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 or their exercise; the State remain.
ing, in the meantime, exposed to all the
dangers of invasions from without and con-
vulsions within.
He has endeavored to prevent the popu-
lation of these States; for that purpose, OBJ.
structing the Jaws or the naturalization Of
foreigners; refusing to pass others to ell.
courage their migration hither, and raising
the conditions of new appropriations Of
lands.
He has obstructed the administration ot
justice, by refusing his assent to laws fol
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 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
legislatures. -.- .
He has affected to render the military in
dependent of, and superior to, civil power.
He has combined, with others, to subject us
to jurisdiction foreign to our Constitu-
tions, 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, by mock trial, from
punishment for any murders which they
should commit on the inhabitants of these
States:
For cutting off our trade with all parts of
the world:
For imposing taxes on US without our
consent:
For deriving us, in many cases, Of the
For transporting us beyond seas to be tried
for pretended offenses:
For abolishing the free system of English
laws in a neighboring province, establishing
therein an arbitrary government, and en-
larging its boundaries, so as to render it at
once an example and fit instrument for in
Producing the same absolute rule into these
colonies:
For taking away our charters, abolish
ing our most valuable laws, and altering,
fundamentally, the forms of our govern
ments:
For suspending our own Legislatures,
and declaring themselves invested with
power to legislate for US in all cases what
soeyer:
He has abdicated government here. by de-
claring us out Of his protection and waging
war against US.
He has plnndered our seas, ravaged our
coasts, burned our towns and DESTROYED the
lives of our people.
He is, at this time, transporting large
armies of foreign merceharies to complete
the works Of death, desolation and tyranny,
already begun, with circumstances OF cruelty
and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most
barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the
head of civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow-citizens,
taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms
against their country, to become the execu-
tioners of their friends and brethren, or to
tall themselves by their hands
He has excited domestic insurrection
among us, and has endeavored to bring on
the inhabitants Of our frontiers, the merci-