rough draft #1 for essay #2

A letter to the continental congress from a disgruntled loyalist.

Who do you think gives you the right as continental congress to assume control over the colonies just because you falsely claim His majesty the king of England is being a tyrant? You don’t, the king has more of a right to rule the colonies more than you. Yes he has messed up I wont argue that but he is a mere human like you and me. It is not the king’s fault for the circumstances surrounding the civil strife and the ill content of the rebelling patriots. With out the Kings political support, influence, and economic stability, North Carolina and all the colonies will soon fall prey to civil war, corrupt dictatorship and division of the once united colonies.

Violence in North Carolina has erupted between colonists that are either patriot, loyalist, or on the fence between us. “In the years just before the outbreaks of the rebellion in the American colonies, violence and civil strife were peculiar characteristics of a bitter political struggle, in North Carolina this struggle was particularly venomous for, it had been said, the colony contained a greater number of loyalists in proportion to its population than any other”. Hugh F. Rankin, Lawrence Babits. "The North Carolina Continentals." ISBN 0807856622(2005) 3-15. 17 Nov 2008 . North Carolina is a hot spot for civil conflict and political debate because of the high number of loyalists to patriots. Usually the patriots outnumbered the loyalists three to one, but in North Carolina the odds were pretty much even or even more so in the loyalists favor. Conflict is spreading through out the colonies in just a few weeks of the King’s absence of power; imagine what the colonies will be like you force the people to secede from the protection of the gracious King. Your argument for dissolving the ties we have with our mother country Brittan because you claim it is a tyrannical force out to bend the will of her subjects thousands of miles away. I say to you that you have become a more terrifying and cruel ruler then the king ever was.

You and the patriots are hypocrites; you have accused the King of being a tyrant when you yourself have become the tyrannical force. You have traded a Monarchical tyranny for a democratic tyranny. You have declared independence from the king who protected us from the French and Indians; you have betrayed his compassion and grace with an ill-fitting contempt for him and his loyal subjects still among the colonies. In the deceleration of rights you gentlemen write,
“1st That there are certain natural rights of which men, when they form a social compact, cannot deprive or divest their posterity, among which are the enjoyment of life, and liberty, with the means of acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
9th That no freeman ought to be taken, imprisoned, or disseized of his freehold, liberties, privileges or franchises, or outlawed or exiled, or in any manner destroyed or deprived of his life, liberty, or property but by the law of the land.
13th. That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted”. "Constitution of North Carolina." A Declaration of Rights &C December 18, 1776 1. 16 Nov 2008 .
How can you write these “rights” for ALL men, then break them treating us loyalists like rabid animals? We have the right to pursue life and liberty, with the means of acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. How can we do so when you will not allow the king to protect us and when you men of congress let your fellow patriot brothers tar and feather my loyalist’s brethren, burning our houses, destroying our land, hanged, abused, used cruel and unusual punishments, and all other meticulous deeds to we loyalists.
The torments are so atrocious that many loyalists are lucky to escape and move away, “If they escaped [the loyalists] at all they had cause to rejoice. Letters soon followed them telling of insults and threats to the friends that remained. Their private coaches burned or pulled in pieces, loads of the rich importers goods were attacked and destroyed or stolen, and his effigy hung up in a conspicuous place in sight of his house, during the day, to be burned or ignominiously treated at night. One his riding horse, with saddle and bridle tarred and an image on its back, driven though town with an infamous figure pinned on the figures breast. Others were frightened by finding incendiary letters which intimidated tortures for all loyalists. Van Tyne, H. van Tyne, Claude H van Tyne. "The loyalists in the American Revolution." (1975-1989) 45-46. 17 Nov 2008 . I believe that these deeds do not go unheard but unpunished, how can a bunch of aristocrats run 13 colonies. It takes a king, solid, righteous, and powerful to effectively run things. Look at all the chaos that has manifest itself in the short while that the patriots are rebelling.
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Once again I say that the king knows what’s best for this new land its inhabitants; his experience and power have led this mass of people in the right direction for along time. We need not reseed from the empire, but harmonize with the king, nay work with him. He provides economic support, defense civil war, and with a majestic leader we need not fear a corrupt diplomatic system.