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Author: James HoggJames Hogg Date: Feb 20, 2008 16:28
On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:03:17 -0000, "D. Spencer Hines"
excelsior.com> wrote:
"Nebulous, we have done everything 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!
"In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace
and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish
to be free--if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable
privileges for which we have been so long contending--if we mean not
basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long
engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until
the glorious object of our contest shall be obtaine--we must unleash
McGonagall!"
Patrick Henry
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