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those very negroes whom he hath ^"},{"attributes":{"italic":true,"script":"super"},"insert":"by an inhuman use of his negative"},{"insert":" "},{"attributes":{"strike":true},"insert":"from time to time"},{"insert":" refused us permission to exclude by law:\n\n\t13. by endeavoring to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian savages whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes, & conditions ^"},{"attributes":{"italic":true,"script":"super"},"insert":"of existence "},{"attributes":{"strike":true,"italic":true,"script":"super"},"insert":"of life"},{"insert":": \n\n\t14. by transporting at this time a large army of foreign mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, & tyranny already begun ^"},{"attributes":{"italic":true,"script":"super"},"insert":"with circumstances of cruelty & perfidy"},{"insert":" "},{"attributes":{"strike":true},"insert":"in a stile"},{"insert":" so unworthy the head of a civilized ^"},{"attributes":{"italic":true,"script":"super"},"insert":"nation"},{"insert":" "},{"attributes":{"strike":true},"insert":"people"},{"insert":":\n\n\t15. by answering our repeated petitions "},{"attributes":{"script":"super"},"insert":"for redress with a repetition of"},{"insert":" "},{"attributes":{"strike":true},"insert":"against these repeated"},{"insert":" injuries: "},{"attributes":{"strike":true},"insert":"with an accumulation of new injury"},{"insert":"\n\n\t16. and finally by abandoning the helm of government ^"},{"attributes":{"script":"super"},"insert":"&"},{"insert":" "},{"attributes":{"strike":true},"insert":"&"},{"insert":" declaring us out of his allegiance & protection\n\n\t["},{"attributes":{"strike":true},"insert":"and by various other acts of tyranny too often enumerated to need repetition and too cruel for the reflection of those who have felt them"},{"insert":"]\n\nby which several acts of misrule the sd. George\t_______________ Guelp has forfeited the kingly office and has rendered it necessary\n\n\t"},{"attributes":{"strike":true},"insert":"Whereby it has become absolutely necessary"},{"insert":" for the preservation of the people "},{"attributes":{"strike":true},"insert":"that the sd. George _______________ Guelp"},{"insert":" should be immediately deposed from the ^"},{"attributes":{"italic":true,"script":"super"},"insert":"same"},{"insert":" "},{"attributes":{"strike":true},"insert":"kingly"},{"insert":" office & divested of all it’s privileges, powers, & prerogatives:\n\n\tAnd forasmuch as the public liberty may be more "},{"attributes":{"strike":true},"insert":"effectually"},{"insert":" "},{"attributes":{"italic":true,"script":"super"},"insert":"certainly"},{"insert":" secured by abolishing an office which all experience hath shown to be inveterately inimical thereto, "},{"attributes":{"strike":true},"insert":"in which case it"},{"insert":" and it will thereupon become"},{"attributes":{"strike":true},"insert":"s"},{"insert":" further necessary to re-establish such antient principles as are friendly to the rights of the people & to declare certain others which may "},{"attributes":{"strike":true},"insert":"fortify &"},{"insert":" cooperate with & fortify the same in future\n\n[in right margin: \"Constitution of Virginia first ideas of Th: J. communicated to a member of the Convention,\"]\n"}]