The correct answer to this open question is the following.
Inglis believed that what would result from declaring independence from Great Britain would be blood, death, destruction of seaports, people would suffer from poverty and the colonies would fail.
As an Irish clergy, he was, Charles Inglis (173-1816) was a loyalist that supported the presence of England in the colonies. However, he was wrong, the Declaration of Independence signed on July 4, 1776, brought to life a new country where liberty was the path that led to the formation of a prosperous United States.