What Does The Following Source Show About Attitudes To The British? I challenge the warmest advocate for reconciliation to show a single advantage that
this Continent can reap by being connected with Great Britain … But the injuries and
disadvantages which we sustain by that connection, are without number; and our
duty to Mankind at large, as well as to ourselves, instruct us to renounce the alliance;
because any submission to, or dependence on, Great Britain, tends directly to
involve this Continent in European war and quarrels, and set us at variance with
nations who would otherwise seek our friendship, and against whom we have neither
anger nor complaint … Every day wears out the little remains of kindred between us
and them, and can there be any reason to hope, that as the relationship expires, the
affection will increase, or that we shall agree better, when we have ten times more
and greater concerns to quarrel over than ever … Now! Now! Now! At this very
moment must these uncorrupt and democratic colonies throw off the trammels of an
effete and vicious monarchy.