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Select the correct text in the passage Mastery Test Submit Te Which sentence in this excerpt from Patrick Henry s famous liberty or death speech at the Second Virginia Convention in 1775 emphasizes the American colonists efforts to avoid war Speech to the Second Virginia Convention by Patrick Henry excerpt Let us not I beseech you sir deceive ourselves Sir we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on We have petitioned we have remonstrated we have supplicated we have prostrated ourselves before the throne and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament Our petitions have been slighted our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult our supplications have been disregarded and we have been spunged with contempt from the foot of the throne In vain after these things may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation There is no longer any room for hope If we wish to be free if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained we must fight I repeat it sir we must fight An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left us