..."Lest this declaration should disquiet the minds of our friends and fellow-subjects in any part of the Empire, we assure them that we mean not to dissolve that Union [with the King] which ... we sincerely wish to see restored." 102 This conceptual dissonance was cleared...

...Congress also passed a Declaration of the Causes and Necessity for Taking Up Arms, in which it proclaimed "that we mean not to dissolve that union which has...us, and which we sincerely wish to see restored." Like the other delegates, Franklin agreed for the sake of consensus to sign the Olive Branch Petition....

..."Lest this Declaration should disquiet the Minds of our Friends and Fellow- Subjects in any part of the Empire, we assure them that we mean not to dissolve...which has so long and so happily subsisted between us" (Jefferson 1950, i: 217). Thomas Jefferson's original draft of the Declaration had been softened in...

..." Lest this declaration should disquiet the minds of onr friends and fellow subjects in any part of the empire, we assure them that we mean not to dissolve...between us and which we sincerely wish to see restored. We have not raised armies with ambitious designs of separating from Great Britain and establishing...

...Philadelphia, setting forth the Causes and Necessity of their taking up Arms." Jefferson, Papers, vol. 1, 217. which has so long and so happily subsisted between...Necessity has not yet driven us into that desperate Measure."11 The passage turns on the ambiguous "yet," which unsettles the present by anticipating a...

...a right to receive from us. — We however, assure our fellow subjects in every part of the Empire, that we mean not to dissolve that union which has so long subsisted between us, and which we sincerely wish to be restored. We have not raised armies with ambitious...