Select the correct text in the passage
Which sentence in this excerpt from Patrick Henry's famous "berty or death speech at the Second Virginia Convention in 1775 emphasizes the
American colonists efforts to avoid war?
Speech to the Second Virginia Convention
by Patrick Henry (excerpt)
Let us not, I beseech you, sk. deceive ourselves Sir, we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on We have
petitioned, we have remonstrated, we
we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored i interposition to arrest the
petitions have been sligh our remonstrances have produced addition folence and insult, our
supplications have been disregarded and we have been spurned with contempf, from the foot of
In vain after these things, may we indulge
violate those
tyrannica hands of the ministry and Parliament
the fond hop
and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hop
an to
estima
for which we have been so long contending- we mean no
to abandon the noble struggle which we have been so long
ve pledge ourselves never to abandon und the glorious object of our contest shad ba obtained-wo must Bight I repeat
peal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left o
and which wo
sk, we must Sight Ani
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