"For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us;
"For protecting them, by a mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states;
"For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world;
"For imposing taxes on us without our consent;
"For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury;
"For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses:
"For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries, so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these colonies;
"For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering, fundamentally, the forms of our governments;
"For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
"He has abdicated government here by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us.