You and I were long friends; you are at present my enemy, and I am yours.
B. FRANKLIN.
FOOTNOTE:
[148] This letter appeared, shortly after the period of its date, in most of the public papers. We extract it from the Gentleman's Magazine. Editor.
[Conciliation hopeless from the Conduct of Great Britain to America.]
Philadelphia, July 7, 1775.
Dear Friend[149],
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The congress met at a time when all minds were so exasperated by the perfidy of general Gage, and his attack on the country people, that propositions of attempting an accomodation were not much relished; and it has been with difficulty that we have carried another humble petition to the crown, to give Britain one more chance, one opportunity more of recovering the friendship of the colonies; which however I think she has not sense enough to embrace, and so I conclude she has lost them for ever.