Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-07-04

He has combined with others to subject MS to A
jurisdiction foreign to our constitutions, and M
acknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to
their acts of pretended legislation:
For quartering large bodies Of armed troops among
u.s.
For protecting them, by mock trial, from pun
lshment for any murders which they should com
NIT on the inhabitants of these States:
FOR cutting Off our trade with all parts of tue
world;
For imposing taxes 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 Erglish laws
IN neighboring province, establishing therein an
arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries
so as to render it at example and fiji in
strlment for introducing the same absolute rule
into these colonies:
For taking away charters aboljs!ins our
most valuable laws, and altering fundampu.rllv iEc
forms of our governments;
For suspending legislatures and tleclr.
ing themselves invested with power to lesiaate
us in all cases Whatsoever.
lie has abdcated government here by declaring lis
out OF his protection and waging against us
lie has plundered seas, ravaaed .,r CORES
burned 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
uesolatlon, and tyranny, already begun with cir
chstances of cruelty and perfdy scurctlw ar;llrcd
IN the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy
the head of civilized nation.
lie has constrained fellow citizens taken can
1--WE on the high seas, to bear arms against their
country to become the eXecutioners their friends
ana brethren, or to fall themselves by their hnlls
lie has excited domestic Instruction :lr,nEg us
ana has endeavored to bring on the inl,bit3Ets OF
our frontiers the merciess Indian slvagcs, whose
KNOWN rule of warfare is undistnguishcd Icatluc-
ton of all ages, sexes and conditions
In every stage of these opprnsso.S we have reti-
tory
repeated petitions have been answered Only by re-
pe'ted injury. prince whose character is thus
marked by every act which may define tvran.. is
unht to be THE ruler of free people
Nor have we been wanting in our attentions to
our British brethren We have warned them, fron,
time TO time, of attempts by their Legislature to ex-
tend an unwarrantable jurisdiction us. We
nave reminded them OF the circumstances Of our
emigration and settlement here We have appealed
to their native justice and ma2nanimity; and we
nave coniured them, by the ties of common kill
dred, to disavow these usu:pations when would in
eVltaDly interrupt connection and correspond
ence. They, 1oo, have been deaf to the voice OF
Justice and co'sansunity. We must, therefore, ac-
quiesce in the necessity which denounccs seara
ton, and hold them as we hold the rest of ,,aaknd
enemies in war. in peace fricnGs
We, therefore, the Repes: natyc s Of tho United
States of America, in General Congress .ss,.mb;.1,
appealing to III" Supreme Judge of the wor:. the
rcctitudc Of mtenticMs 30, In the name and by
the authority Of the good people ca.cni.s
solclnnIy publish ana declarA That tl..se L,i:c,
Colonies and of rSht ought to ne Tree 10! in.
dependent states: that they abS.:ve, ron al.
alleGiace TO the British 'rown. and that all p,t.a
connection between t"ein ard tie state 81 G.eat
Britain is, ard 6::...t to w. totally L:.-,lyeI and
that "> Ire" ana, il ;t.n!rnt sntr, toy bave ,-Il
power I" levy Va. 2;AclH'a p::tc. Conflict al
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