We are invited to submit to a man who has attempted by every cruelty to destroy us, and to join him in making war against France, who is already at war against him for our support.
Paine highlights the hypocrisy and absurdity of the British inviting the American colonists to submit to their oppressor and then join him in fighting France, an ally.
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