突然有種微妙的感覺。 節錄 我們不是沒有顧念我們英國的弟兄。我們時常提醒他們，他們的立法機關企圖把無理的管轄權橫加到我們的頭上。我們也曾把我們移民來這裏和在這裏定居的情形告訴他們。我們曾經向他們天生的正義感和雅量呼籲，我們懇求他們念在同種同宗的份上，棄絕這些掠奪行為，以免影響彼此的關係和往來。但是他們對於這種正義和血緣的呼聲，也同樣充耳不聞。因此，我們實在不得不宣布和他們脫離，並且以對待世界上其他民族一樣的態度對待他們 : 和我們作戰，就是敵人;和我們和好，就是朋友。 Extract of 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.
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