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Compare "Strictures upon the Declaration of Independence" by Thomas Hutchinson" (http://oll.libertyfund.org/pages/1776-hutchinson-strictures-...)

"Mr Hutchinson believes that the majority of Americans were deluded into war with Britain by a few crazies. A common experience in history. Read it, it's short. Pay attention to Mr Hutchinson pointing out logical inconsistencies between the revolutionaries' calls for freedom and their owning slaves." (https://foseti.wordpress.com/2009/04/10/review-of-strictures...)

    MY LORD,

    The Last time I had the honour of being in your Lordships company
I will be honest. I couldn't read past this. I just couldn't. I hope you do not fail to see the point.

What's your point? Sorry, I am but a humble unAmerican and might be hard of understanding.

It is a level of groveling that no free man should willingly endure, nor require.

It's a traditional form of address.

The proto-US people kept slaves at the time. That's worse.

What's your point?

My inference is the reference to deference

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