Select the correct text in the passage.
Which sentence in
American colonists* efforts to avold war? this excerpt from Patrick Henry's famous "liberty or death" speech at the Second Virginia Convention in 1775 emphasizes the
Speech to the Second Virginia Convention
Let us not, I beseech you, sir, decelve
by Patrick Henry (excerpt)
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 have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have Implored its
interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament. Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced
thronel In valn, after these things, may we additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the Indulge the fond hope of peace and reconcillation. There Is no longer any room for hope. If we wish
to be free-if we mean to preserve inviolate those Inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending--If we mean not basely to
us!
object of our contest shall be obtained-we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fighti An appeal to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious 0 arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left