The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-07-03

them and formidable to tyrantS only.
He has called together legislative
bodies at places unusual, uncomfort
able. and distant from the depository
of their public records. for the sole pur-
pose of fatiguing them into compliance
with his measures.
He has dissolved representative
houses repeatedly, for opposing with
manly firmness his invas!ons on the
rights of the people.
He has refused for long time afte.
such dissolutions, to cause others to
be elected; whereby the legislati
powers. incapable of annihilation have
returned to the people at large for their
exercise; the state remaining in the
meantime exposed to all the dangers
of invasion from without. and convul
siOns within.
!, He has endeavored to prevent the
population of these states for that pur-
| pose obstructing the laws for naturalfz-
alton of foreigners: refusing to pass
others to encourage their migration
| hither, and raising the conditions OF
new appropriation of lands.
He mas INSTRUCTED the administration
of justice. by refusing his 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 a multitude of rev
offices, and sent hither swarms of Of
ficers to harass our people, and eat
out their substance.
He has kept among us in times OF
peace, standing armies without the
| consent of our Legislature.
He has affected to render the military
| independent of and superior to the civ
| il power.
He has combined with others to sub
! ject us to a 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 by a mock trial.
from punishment for any murders
which they should commit on the in
| habitants 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
| 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 a neighboring province
establishing therein an arbitrary gov
eminent, and charging its boundaries
so 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 forms of our
governments:
For suspending our own legislatures.
and declaring themselves invested with
power to legislate for us in all cases
whatsoever
he mas abdicated government here
by declaring US out Of his protection
and Waging war against us
He has plundered our seas. ravaged
our coasts, burnt our towns. and de-
stroyed the lives OF our people.
He is at this time transporting. large
armies Of Dreign merccnaries to COM
rlete the works of death. desoIation
and tyranny, already begun with cir
cumstanceS Of cruelty and perfidy
scarcely paralleled in the most barbar-
Gus ages. and totally unworthy the
head of q civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow cit
liens taken captive on the high seas
to bear arms against their country. to
become the eXecutionefs of their
friends and brethren. or TO fall them
selves by their hands
He has excited domestic inSurrac-
ions amongst us, and has endcavored
to bring on the inhabitants of orr
frontiers, the merciless Indian savages
whose known rule of warfare, is an I'M
distinguished destruction of all ages
sexes and conditions
In every stage of these expressions
we have petitioned for redress in the
most humble terms Our repeated peti- |
ions have beer answered only by re-
peated injury a prince. whose charac- |
ter Is thus marked by every act which
may define tyrant. is unfit to be the !
ruler Of free people.
Nor have We been wanting in at
tentlons to our British brethren. We
have warned them from time to time
Of attempts by their legislature to ex-
tend an urWarrantable Jurisdiction
over US. We have reminded them of
the circumstances of our emigration
and settlement here. We have appealed
10 their native justice and maganim-
lty, and we have conjured them bv the
Ties OF our common kindred to disavow
these usurpations, which, would newt
aoly interrupt our connections and
They too have been
deaf TO the voice of justice and con-
We must, therefore. ac-
lulesce in the necessity, which de /,
nounces our separation, and hold them
is we hold the rest of mankind. enemies
N war, in peace, friends.
We, therefore, the representa-
ives of the United States of /,
America, in general congress as
'embled. appealing to the supreme
i