But till such time as they can show some real reason, natural, political, or conscientious, on which their objections to independence are founded, we are not obliged to give them credit for being Tories of the first stamp, but must set them down as Tories of the last.
Paine asserts that loyalists must provide substantial reasons for their opposition to independence, otherwise they should be considered unprincipled.
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