Britain: Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves longer. Sir,
we have done every thing that could be done, to avert the
storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we
have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have
prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored
its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the
ministry and parliament. Our petitions have been slighted;
our remonstrances have produced additional violence and
insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we
have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the
throne!
What is most likely the author's purpose in this section of the speech?
A. To rationalize the need to resort to war