What role did the north and south play in the growth of cotton?

What is the central idea of this excerpt?

What rhetorical device were the declaration's signers using when they said used strong, emotional words to describe the grievances against the king?

[v]ast numbers of our people are compelled to seek their livelihood by begging, robbing, stealing, cheating, flattering, suborning, forswearing, forging . . which satirical element is most dominant in the passage above?