The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-07-02

/ population of these States; for that
| purpose obstructing the Laws fol
| Naturalization of Foreigners; refus-
| ing to pass others to encourage their
mIgrations hther, and raising the
conditions of new Appropriations of
! Lands.
He has obstructed the Administra-
tion of Justice, by refusing his AS
sent to Laws for establishing Judic-
iary Powers.
lie 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
Officers 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 Civil power.
He has combined with others to
subject us to jurisdiction foreign to
our constitution, and unacknowl-
edged by our laws; giving his AS
sent to their Acts Of pretended Leg
islation:
For quartering large bodies of
armed troops among US:
For protecting them, by a mock
Trial, from punishment for any Muir
ders 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 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 neighboring Prov
ince, establishing therein an ArOi-
trary government, and enlarging 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,
abolishings our most valuable Laws.
ard altering fundamentally the
Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legis-
latures, and declaring themselves in
vested with power to legislate for
Us in all cases whatsoever
He has abdicated Government
here, by declaring US out of his Pro-
lection and waging War against us.
lie has plundered our seas, ra-
vaged our Coasts, burnt our towns,
and destroyed the lives of our peo-
pie.
He is at this time transporting
large Armies of foreign Mercenaries
to compleat the works of death, des-
olation and tyranny, already begun
with circumstances of Cruelty and
pefidy scarcely paralleled in the
most barbarous ages, and totally un-
worthy the Head Of a civilized ma
ton.
He has constrained our fellow Citi-
zens taken captive on the high Seas
to bear Arms against their Country,
to become the eXecutioners Of their
friends and Brethren, or to fall them
selves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrec-
tions amongst US, and has endeav-
ored to bring on the inhabitants
of our frontiers, the merciless In
dian Savages, whose known rule of
Warefare, is an undistinguished de-
struction of all ages, sexes and con-
ditiOns.
In every stage of these Oppres-
sions We have Petitioned for Re-
dress in the most humble terms:
Our repeated Petitions have been an
swered only by repeated injury. A
Prince, whose character is thus
marked by every act which may de-
fine Tyrant, is unfit to be the
ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in at
tentions to our British brethren. We
have warned them from time to time
of attempts by their legislature to
extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction
over US. We have reminded them of
the circumstances of our emigration
and settlement here. We have ap-
pealed to their native justice and
magnanimity, and we have conjurred
them by the ties of our common kin
dred to disavow these usurpations.
which would inevitably interrupt our
connections and correspondence.
They too have been deaf to the voice
of justice and consanguinity. We
must, therefore acquiesce in the ne
cessity, which denounces our Separa-
tion, and hold them, as we hold the
rest Of mankind, Enemies in War,
in Peace Friends.
We, Therefore, the Representa-
tives of the United States of America
IN General Congress, Assembled, ap-
pealing to the Supreme Judge of the
world for the rectitude of our inten-
tions, do, in the Name and by au-
thority of the good people of these
Colonies, solemnly publish and de-
clare, that these United Colonies are.