"... The second position which your Lordship has endeavoured to establish is, that the Americans do not wish for peace, they would not be satisfied with relief from particular grievances; they aim at independence, and would throw off their subjection to the crown of Great Britain. As this very charge is circulated through every part of the kingdom by those who would justify the oppressor by casting a darker shade on the oppressed, I have taken much pains to discover the evidence on which it is founded; but after all my researches I cannot find any better reason for supposing that the Americans desire to be independent, than their own uniform declarations that they do not desire it..."
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
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