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power to legislate for us in themselves invested with
all cases whatsoever. power to legislate for us in
all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated government He has abdicated government
here, _withdrawing his here _by declaring us out
governors and declaring us of his protection and waging
out of his allegiance and war against us_.
protection_.

He has plundered our seas,
ravaged our coasts, burnt our Not altered.
towns and destroyed the lives
of our people.

He is at this time transporting He is at this time transporting
large armies of foreign large armies of foreign
mercenaries to complete the mercenaries to complete the
works of death, desolation works of death, destruction
and tyranny already begun and tyranny already begun
with circumstances of cruelty with circumstances of cruelty
and perfidy unworthy the and perfidy _scarcely
head of a civilized nation. 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 Not altered.
become the executioners of
their friends and brethren, or
to fall themselves by their
hands.

He has endeavoured to He has _excited domestic
bring on the inhabitants of insurrections among us and has_
the frontiers the merciless endeavoured to bring on the
Indian savages whose known inhabitants of the frontiers
rule of warfare is an the merciless Indian savages
undistinguished destruction of whose known rule of warfare
all ages, sexes and conditions is an undistinguished destruction
_of existence_. of all ages, sexes, and
conditions.

He has excited treasonable
insurrections of our
fellow-citizens, with the Struck out.
allurements of forfeiture and
confiscation of our property.

He has waged cruel war
against human nature itself,
violating its most sacred
rights of life and liberty in
the persons of a distant people
who never offend