Select the correct text in the passage.
Which sentence in this excerpt from the Declaration of Independence indicates that the
colonists
did not wish to remain hostile toward Great
Britain
the future?
most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the
answered only
Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a
Nor
have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. 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 and hold them, as we hold the
sanguinity. 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