List of grievances

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This is the list of grievances sent to King George, of what he did and

why the Colonies declared Independence. How many has Bush commited,

in America or abroad <-- (making reference particularly to " He has

plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts burnt our towns, and destroyed

the lives of our people. " )

 

The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of

repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the

establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this,

let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

 

He has refuted his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary

for the public good.

 

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing

importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should

be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend

to them.

 

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large

districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of

Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and

formidable to tyrants only.

 

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual,

uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public

Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with

his measures.

 

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with

manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

 

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause

others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of

Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise;

the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of

invasion from without, and convulsions within.

 

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that

purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners;

refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and

raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

 

He has obstructed 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 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 legislatures.

 

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to

the Civil Power.

 

He has combined with others to subject 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 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 benefit 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 neighbouring

Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary 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, abolishing our most valuable Laws and

altering 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 has 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

destroyed the lives of our people.

 

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to

compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun

with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the

most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized

nation.

 

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 insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured

to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian

Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction

of all ages, sexes and conditions.

 

 

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" Those fortunate enough to have been touched

by its mystique will agree that once the

strange Oriental magic of the Siamese cat

has been revealed to them, they will forever

remain in its enchanted spell. " Joan Moore