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