I expose simply the tyranny which upholds the existing Usurpation, and asks for additional appropriations. Let it be judged by example from which in this country there can be no appeal. Here is the speech of George the Third, made from his throne to Parliament, in response to the complaints of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, which, though smarting under laws passed by usurped power, had yet avoided all armed opposition, while Lexington and Bunker Hill still slumbered in rural solitude, unconscious of the historic kindred they were soon to claim. Instead of Massachusetts Bay, in the royal speech, substitute Kansas, and the message of the President will be found fresh on the lips of the British King. Listen now to the words, which, in opening Parliament, 30th November, 1774, his Majesty, according to the official report, was pleased to speak. “_My Lords and Gentlemen_:-- “It gives me much concern, that I am obliged, at the opening of this Parliament, to inform you that a most daring _spirit of resistance and disobedience to the law_ still unhappily prevails in the Province of the _Massachusetts Bay_, and has in divers parts of it broke forth in fresh violences of a very criminal nature. _These proceedings have been countenanced and encouraged in other of my Colonies, and unwarrantable attempts have been made to obstruct the commerce of this kingdom by unlawful combinations._ I have taken such measures and given such orders as I judged most proper and effectual _for carrying into execution the laws which were passed in the last session of the late Parliament_, for the protection and security of the commerce of my subjects, and for the restoring and preserving peace, order, and good government in the Province of the _Massachusetts Bay_.”[95]