Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-04

He has combined with others to subject us to a acknowledged 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 pun ishment for murders which they should init on the inhabitants Of these States;
 For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world;
 For imposing without
 For depriving us, in many cases. of the benefits
 For transporting beyond be tried for pretended offences;
 For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein arbitrary government, and enlargng its bounda- res, so as to render 1t at once an example and ht instrument for introducing the same absolute rule these colonies;
 For taking away our charters, abolshing our most valuable laws, and altering, fundamentally the forms of our governments;
 suspending legislatures, caring themselves invested with power legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
 has abdicated government here, by declaring out of his protection, and waging against us
 He has plundered our seas, ravaged coasts burned our towns, and estro.sd the lives of our people.
 foreign mercenaries complete death, desolaton and tyrrany, already begun with worthy head of civilized nation.
 He has constrained fellow citizens, taken captive the high seas, bear agianst their country become the executioners of their friends brethren, to themselves by their hands
 He has excited domestic instruction among and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of frontiers, the rerci1ess Indian savages known rule of warfare is an undistinguished de- struction of all ages sexes, and conditions
 In stage of the expressions have peti- toned for redress the most humble terms; peated petitions have been only by peated injury. A prince whose character thus marked by every act which may define tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free
 Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to tme of attempts by their legislature tend unwarrantable jurisdiction over us We have reminded them of the crcuustances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanmity; and have conjured them, by the ties of kin dred, to disavow these usurpations. which in- evtably interrupt connections ence. They, too, hove been deaf the voice justice and consanguinity We must therefore quiesce in the necessity which denounces ration and hold them, hold the kind, enemies in war, in peace friends.
 We therefore the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled appealing to the Supreme Judge world for the rectitude of intentions, do in the by the authority of the good people of these colonies solemnly publish and declare, That these united dependent states; that they absolved from all allegiance to the British crown political connection between them and of Britain is, and ought to be- totally dissolved; that as free and independent state they have full power to levy war conclude peace, contract al- nances establish commerce and do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And, for the support of this declaration with firm reliance the protection Divine Prov idence, we mutually pledge each our lives our fortunes and our sacred honor.