Excerpt from The Address of the People of Great-Britain to the Inhabitants of America

But the views intended to be compassed by the last of these papers we impute to those who framed it, and not to you. For to men generous and open as you are, the integrity of whose intentions we believe corresponds to our own, we will not permit ourselves to impute insidious views or insidious arts. We give you a generous credit because we expect it from you.

In our turn, we address you, not as Foes, not as Communities which would league yourselves with Frenchmen against us, not as Individuals who would conceal the hatred which you have, or stab under pretence of the love which you have not, but as our Friends and our Countrymen. God forbid these endearing appellations should ever be exchanged for these of Enemy and Traitor: for the flame of liberty which burns in our breads we revere in yours: your services in the late wars, with the oblivion of which you reproach us, we remember well: your industry, your virtue and your piety we honour, because we believe that those who stand in awe of the estimation of their own minds, and fear their God, will seldom go far in a wrong path.

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