ed him,
captivating and carrying them
into slavery in another
hemisphere, or to incur
miserable death in their
transportation thither.
This piratical warfare, the
opprobrium of INFIDEL powers,
is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN
king of Great Britain.
Determined to keep open a
market where MEN should be
bought and sold, he has
prostituted his negative for Struck out.
suppressing every legislative
attempt to prohibit or to
restrain this execrable commerce.
And that this assemblage
of horrors might want no fact of
distinguished die, he is now
exciting those very people to
rise in arms among us, and to
purchase that liberty of which
he has deprived them, by
murdering the people on whom he
also obtruded them; thus paying
off former crimes committed
against the LIBERTIES of one
people with crimes which he
urges them to commit against
the LIVES of another.

In every stage of these
oppressions we have petitioned
for redress in the most Not altered.
humble terms; our repeated
petitions have been answered
only by repeated injuries.

A prince whose character is A prince whose character is
thus marked by every act thus marked by every act
which may define a tyrant is which may define a tyrant is
unfit to be the ruler of a unfit to be the ruler of a
people _who mean to be free. _free_ people.
Future ages will scarcely
believe that the hardiness of one
man adventured, within the
short compass of twelve years
only, to lay a foundation so
broad and so undisguised for
tyranny over a people fostered
and fixed in principles of
freedom._

Nor have we been wanting Nor have we been wanting
in attention to our British in attention to our British
brethren. We have warned brethren. We have warned
them from time to time of them from time to time of
attempts by their legislature to attempts by their legislature to
extend _a_ jurisdiction over extend _an unwarrantable_
_these our states_. We have jurisdiction over _us_. We have
reminded them of the reminded them of the
circumstances of our emigration circumstances of our emigration
and settlement here; _no one of and settlement here; we _have_
which could warrant so appealed to their native justice
strange a pretension; these and magnanimity, _and we
were