Source 1: John Dickinson, from the ‟Olive Branch Petition," July 5, 1775

Attached to your Majesty’s person, family and government with all the devotion that principles and affection can inspire, connected with Great Britain by the strongest ties that can unite societies, and deploring every event that tends in any degree to weaken them, we solemnly assure your Majesty, that we not only most ardently desire the former harmony between her and these colonies may be restored, but that a concord may be established between them upon so firm a basis as to perpetuate its blessings uninterrupted by any future dissensions to succeeding generations.

Source 2: John Dickinson and Thomas Jefferson, from "Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms," July 6, 1775

In our own native land, in defense of the freedom that is our birthright, and which we ever enjoyed till the late violation of it; for the protection of our property, acquired solely by the honest industry of our forefathers and ourselves, against violence actually offered, we have taken up arms. We shall lay them down when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, and all danger of their being renewed shall be removed, and not before.

1. What are the main differences between these two sources?