It would be a station of degradation, debased by our pity, and despised by our pride, and would place England in a more contemptible situation than any she has yet been in during the war.
In "The American Crisis," this passage asserts that any continued British presence in America would result in a state of profound degradation for England, marked by American pity and scorn.
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