TaÌˆgliche Omaha tribuÌˆne. [volume] (Omaha, Nebr.) 1912-1926, 1917-07-03

sent W laws LOT establishing Juulcla-
ny 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 new
offices, and sent hither swarms OF Of
fcers 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 legislatures.
He has affected to render the mil
itary Independent Of, and superior to,
the civil power.
He has combined with others to
subject US to a jurisdiction foreign
to our constitutions, and unacknow-
lodged by our laws; giving his assent
to their acts of pretended legisla-
ton;
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 inhabitants of these States;
For cutting off our trade with all
parts of the world;
For imposing taxes on US With
out 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 prov
ince, establishing therein an arbitra-
ry government, and charging its
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 Jul charters, abb
olishing our most valuable laws, and
altering, fundamentally, the forms
Of our governments;
For %suspending our own legis-
latures. and declaring US out of his
protection, and waging war against
us.
He has plundered our seas. raw
aged our coasts, burned our towns,
and destroyed the lives Of our peo-
pie.
He is at this time transporting
large armies of foreign m~ercenaries
to complete the works Of death, de-
ISOLATION and tyranny, already begun
with circumstances of cruelty and
perfdy scarcely p~aralleled in t he
most barbarous ages, and totally I'M
worthy the head Of d civilized ma
ton.
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.
He has excited domestic %insurrec-
ton among US, and has endeavored
to bring on the inhabitants Of our
the merciless Indian saw
ages, whose known rule of warfare
is an undistinguished destruction Of
ages, sexes, and conditions.
In every stage of these expressions
we have petitioned for redress in the
most humble terms; our repeated
petitions have been answered only by
repeated injury. A prince whose
is thus marked by every
act which may define a tyrant, is I'M
fit to be the ruler Of a free people.
Nor have we been wanting in our
attentions to British brethren.
have warned them, from time to
OF attempts by their legislature
TO extend an unwarrantable jurisdic-
ton owe us. We have reminded
them of the circumstances of our
emigration and settlement here.
We have appealed to their native
and magnanimity; and we
have conjured them, by tho ties Of
bur common kindred, to disayow
.hese usurpations. which would in
svitably interrupt cur connections
and correspondence. They. too, have
been deaf to the voice of justice and
,onsanguinity. We must, therefore,
'cquiesee in the necessity which de-
lOunces u separation, and hold
as we hold the rest Of man