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APPENDIX BHe has made Judges dependent on hisWill alone, for the Tenure of their offices,and the amount and payment of theirsalaries.He has erected a multitude of NewOffices, and sent hither swarms ofOfficers to harrass our people, and eatout their substance.He has kept among us, in times ofpeace, Standing Armies, without theConsent of our Legislatures.He has affected to render the Militaryindependent of and superior to the Civilpower.He has combined with others to subjectus to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution,and unacknowledged by ourlaws; giving his Assent to their Acts ofpretended Legislation:For quartering large bodies of armedtroops among us:For protecting them, by a mock Trial,from punishment for any Murders whichthey should commit on the Inhabitants ofthese States:For cutting off our Trade with all partsof the world:For imposing Taxes on us without ourConsent:For depriving us, in many Cases, of thebenefits of Trial by Jury:For transporting us beyond Seas to betried for pretended Offences:For abolishing the free System ofEnglish Laws in a neighbouring Province,establishing therein an Arbitrary government,and enlarging its Boundaries so asto render it at once an example and fitinstrument for introducing the sameabsolute rules into these Colonies:For taking away our Charters, abolishingour most valuable Laws, and alteringfundamentally the Forms of ourGovernments:For suspending our own Legislatures,and declaring themselves invested withpower to legislate for us in all caseswhatsoever.He has abdicated Government here, bydeclaring us out of his Protection andwaging War against us.He has plundered our Seas, ravaged ourCoasts, burnt our towns, and destroyedthe lives of our people.He is at this time transporting largeArmies of foreign Mercenaries to compleatthe works of death, desolation, andtyranny, already begun with circumstancesof Cruelty and perfidy scarcelyparalleled in the most barbarous ages,and totally unworthy the Head of acivilized nation.He has constrained our fellow Citizenstaken Captive on the high Seas to bearArms against their Country, to becomethe executioners of their friends andBrethren, or to fall themselves by theirHands.He has excited domestic insurrectionsamongst us, and has endeavoured tobring on the inhabitants of our frontiers,the merciless Indian Savages, whoseknown rule of warfare, is an undistinguisheddestruction, of all ages, sexesand conditions.In every stage of these Oppressions wehave Petitioned for Redress in the mosthumble terms: Our repeated Petitions havebeen answered only by repeated injury. APrince, whose character is thus markedby every act which may define a Tyrant,is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.812 Appendix B