The passage shows the desire of the colonists to separate but not maintain hostility with Great Britain.
The sentence in the excerpt that indicates the colonists did not wish to remain hostile toward Great Britain in the future is: '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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