Hayden murphy "We have petitioned". We have done everything we could to avoid conflict. We have tried to resolve this matter with Britain. We have tried such things such as the Olive Branch Petition. "Our supplications have been disregarded". Everything we have tried has been in vain. Every peace we try to make only ends in more violence and more insult from the British. "If we want to be free, we must fight". Britain has backed us into a corner, and there is only one option now. If we want to live free and how we please, with no tyrant above us, we have to take action! "They say we are weak" We are outgunned by the British. But things won't get better, only worse. In time, the British will subdue us. We will be stripped of our arms and guarded
