King George's response to the Declaration of Independence
His Majesty’s Most Gracious Speech to Both Houses of Parliament
on Thursday, October 31, 1776
My Lords, and Gentlemen,
Nothing could have afforded Me so much Satisfaction as to have been able to inform you, at the Opening of this Session, that the Troubles, which have so long distracted My Colonies in North America, were at an End; and that My unhappy People, recovered from their Delusion, had delivered themselves from the Oppression of their Leaders, and returned to their Duty. But so daring and desperate is the...
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