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Quotation from The Olive Branch Petition by Continental Congress
“The union between our Mother country and these colonies, and the energy of mild and just government, produced benefits so remarkably important, and afforded such an assurance of their permanency and increase, that the wonder and envy of other Nations were excited, while they beheld Great Britain riseing to a power the most extraordinary the world had ever known.”
The Olive Branch Petition, The remembered union (Avalon, Journals of the Continental Congress, 8 July 1775)
The petition begins by praising the old connection, in the source spelling “riseing.”
Citation: "The union between our Mother country and these colonies, and the energy of mild and just government, produced benefits so remarkably important, and afforded such an assurance of their permanency and increase, that the wonder and envy of other Nations were excited, while they beheld Great Britain riseing to a power the most extraordinary the world had ever known." — Continental Congress, The Olive Branch Petition, The remembered union (Avalon, Journals of the Continental Congress, 8 July 1775). (id olive-branch-petition-q2)
