That thus have we hastened through the reigns which preceded his Majesty's, during which the violation of our rights were less alarming, because repeated at more distant intervals, than that rapid and bold succession of injuries, which is likely to distinguish the present from all other periods of American story. Scarcely have our minds been able to emerge from the astonishment into which one stroke of Parliamentary thunder has involved us, before another more heavy and more alarming is fallen on us. Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematical plan of reducing us to slavery. [Sidenote: Act for granting certain duties.] That the act passed in the fourth year of his Majesty's reign, entitled 'an act [Sidenote: Stamp act.] One other act passed in the fifth year of his reign, entitled 'an act [Sidenote: Act declaring the right of Parliament over the colonies.] One other act passed in the sixth year of his reign, entitled 'an act [Sidenote: Act for granting duties on paper, tea, &c.] And one other act passed in the seventh year of his reign, entitled 'an act Form that connected chain of Parliamentary usurpation, which has already been the subject of frequent applications to his Majesty, and the Houses of Lords and Commons of Great Britain; and, no answers having yet been condescended to any of these, we shall not trouble his Majesty with a repetition of the matters they contained. [Sidenote: Act suspending legislature of New-York.] But that one other act passed in the same seventh year of his reign, having been a peculiar attempt, must ever require peculiar mention. It is entitled 'an act