Independence

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16. The government of the Virginia Colony.
====//Gentlemen may cry, peace, peace -- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! ….Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? …..Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! -- I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!//====

**Revolutionary Tea** //There was an old lady lived over the sea// //And she was an island queen.// //Her daughter lived off in a new country// //With an ocean of water between.// //The old lady’s pockets were full of gold// //But never contented was she,// //So she called on her daughter to pay her a tax// //Of three pence a pound on her tea,// //Of three pence a pound on her tea.//