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What is the author's purpose in this excerpt?
Nor have We been wanting in attention to our Brittish
brethren. We have warned them from time to time of
attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable
jurisdiction over us. 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.
to inform readers about British immigration to the colonies
to convince readers that Britain has treated the colonists
unfairly
to inform readers about specific acts of British military
aggression
to convince readers that American colonists should be
tried in Britain
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