The British people are referred to as “our British brethren.” They and the colonists share a “common kindred”. Their unselfishness and graciousness are noted through the word magnanimity. But they, like their king, “have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity.” Thus, the British people must be held, as the rest of the world is held, as “enemies in war, in peace, friends.” The king and Parliament bear the brunt of the colonist “wrath.” It is the king who is charged with all their grievances. His history is one “of repeated injuries and usurpation.” Because he desires to establish “absolute tyranny”