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(Langguth, 28) So my friends, I ask you all how long can we continue to be treated as hostiles? Why should we wish to remain loyal to a country that deprived us of religious freedoms for generations, not to mention those of us who have no tie to the king and Britain at all? Why should we not seek independence? Why should we give into our selfish, greedy, loyalist neighbors, while the British troops are killing our friends, attacking our cities, and laying sole claim to OUR goods?
I say we put a sharp and decisive end to our ties with the tyrannical king and HIS country. This bold declarative statement, however, will require the support and backing of all colonists not just my northernmost neighbors. If an end is not brought to these intolerable and coercive acts AGAINST us in the north, it will be only a matter of time before "His Majesty" lays claim to all of this great land, north, south, and everything in between! Langguth, A.J. Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution, Simon And Schuster, 1989; Page 28.