an Literature Through the Eighteenth Century
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Select the correct text in the passage.
Which sentence in this excerpt from the Declaration of Independence indicates that the colonists did not wish to remain hostile toward Great Britain in
the future?
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by
repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people
.
Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our
emigration and
settlement here.
We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred
to disavow these
usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf
to the voice of justice and of
consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold
them, as we hold the rest of
mankind,
Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
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