produce insult after insult; that the more we conceded, the higher
America rose in her demands, and the more insolent she has grown. It
is for this reason that I am now for the most effective and decisive
measures; and am of opinion that no alternative is left us, but to
relinquish America for ever, or finally determine to compel her to
acknowledge the legislative authority of this country; and it is the
principle of an unconditional submission I would be for maintaining."

Can words be more expressive than these? Surely the Tories will
believe the Tory lords! The truth is, they do believe them and know
as fully as any Whig on the continent knows, that the king and
ministry never had the least design of an accommodation with America,
but an absolute, unconditional conquest. And the part which the
Tories were to act, was, by downright lying, to endeavor to put the
continent off its guard, and to divide and sow discontent in the
minds of such Whigs as they might gain an influence over. In short,
to keep up a distraction here, that the force sent from England might
be able to conquer in "one campaign." They and the ministry were, by
a different game, playing into each other's hands. The cry of the
Tories in England was, "No reconciliation, no accommodation," in
order to obtain the greater military force; while those in America
were crying nothing but "reconciliation and accommodation," that the
force sent might conquer with the less resistance.

But this "single campaign" is over, and America not conquered. The
whole work is yet to do, and the force much less to do it with. Their
condition is both despicable and deplorable: out of cash- out of
heart, and out of hope. A country furnished with arms and ammunition
as America now is, with three millions of inhabitants, and three
thousand miles distant from the nearest enemy that can approach her,