IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776

An Appeal to the British people:

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren.

We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their

legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us.

We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and

settlement here.

We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and

We have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence.

They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity.

We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
"The Declaration of Independence"

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