Paragraph 18. "He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun, with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy unworthy the head of a civilized nation." On the above two counts, which charge war and invasion, I submit from Common Sense, page 62, as follows: "_It is the violence which is done and threatened to our persons, the destruction of our property by an armed force, the invasion of our country by fire and sword_, which conscientiously qualifies the use of arms; and the instant in which such mode of defense became necessary, all subjection to Britain ought to have ceased, and the independence of America should have been considered as dating its era from, and published by the first musket that was fired against her." Under the above, also, may be classed paragraph 19. Paragraph 20. "He has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes, and conditions of existence." Compare Common Sense, page 47, as follows: "There are thousands and tens of thousands who would think it glorious to expel from the continent that barbarous and hellish power which hath stirred up the Indians and negroes to destroy us." Paragraph 21. "He has excited _treasonable insurrection_," etc. Compare Common Sense, page 61, as follows: "The tories dared not have assembled _offensively_, had they known that their lives, by that act, were forfeited to the laws of the State. A line of distinction should be drawn between English soldiers taken in battle and inhabitants of America _taken in arms_: the first are prisoners, but the latter _traitors_--the one forfeits his liberty, the other his head." The above paragraph and the following one, it will be remembered, were stricken out by Congress. I now come to the closing paragraph of this part of the indictment, and, as it is the most important of all, the author kept it for a climax, and he throws his whole soul into it. I will transcribe it here: