Long before the first Continental Congress assembled, the backwoodsmen, whatever their blood, had become Americans, one in speech, thought, and character, clutching firmly the land in which their fathers and grandfathers had lived before them.
Roosevelt emphasizes that the backwoodsmen had already become distinctly American before the Continental Congress convened.
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