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2116. DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, People of England and.—

The pusillanimous idea that we had any friends in England worth keeping terms with,
still haunted the minds of many. For this
reason, those passages which conveyed censure
on the people of England were struck
out, lest they should give them offence.—
Autopiography. Washington ed. i, 19. Ford ed., i, 28.
(1821)