104 HAYS — DRAUGHT OF DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. [Ap. 1, 



no solitary fact to contradict the uniform tenor of the rest ; but] 

 all [have] having in direct object the establishment of an absolute 

 tyranny over these states. To prove this let facts be submitted to 

 a candid world, [for the truth of which we pledge a faith yet unsul- 

 lied by falsehood]. 



He has refused his assent to laws the most wholesome and neces- 

 sary for the public good. 



He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate & 

 pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his 

 assent should be obtained ; and when so suspended, he has [neglected 

 utterly] 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, & 

 formidable to tyrants only. 



He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncom- 

 fortable, & 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 [& con- 

 tinually], 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 meantime exposed to all the dangers of 

 invasion from witjiout, & convulsions within. 



He has endeavored 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 ; & 

 raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands. 



He has [suffered the administration of justice totally to cease in 

 some of these states] obstructed the administration of justice by 

 refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers. 



He has made [our] judges dependant on his will alone, for the 

 tenure of their offices, and the amount & paiment of their salaries. 



He has erected a multitude of new offices [by a self-assumed 

 power] & sent hither swarms of officers to harrass our people, and 

 eat out their substance. 



He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies [and 

 ships of war,] without the consent of our legislatures. 



