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If they are relieved in part only, what do you, as a reasonable and dispassionate man, and an equal friend to both sides, imagine will be the probable consequence?
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gutenberg.orgBenjamin Franklin: “If they are relieved in part only, what do you, as a reasonable and dispassionate man, and an equal friend to both…”
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Franklin questions the consequences of only partially relieving the Americans from their grievances.
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