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Source: Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams (February 18, 1776)
My dearest Friend
I sent you from New York a Pamplet intitled Common Sense, written in Vindication of Doctrines which there is Reason to expect that the further Encroachments of Tyranny and Depredations of Oppression, will soon make the common Faith: unless the cunning Ministry, by proposing Negociations and Terms of Reconciliation, should divert the present Current from its Channell.
Reconciliation if practicable and Peace if attainable, you very well know would be as agreable to my Inclinations and as advantages to my Interest, as to any Man's. But I see no Prospect, no Probability, no Possibility. And I cannot but despise the Understanding, which sincerely expects an honourable Peace, fro its Credulity, and detest the hypocritical Heart, which pretends to expect it, when in Truth it does not...
I need help understanding what its saying. I also need to answer this questions.
1. find evidence in the Adams letters that indicate that even after the publication of Common Sense, independence was not universally supported.
2. find a passage that illustrates John Adam's reaction to the ideas in Common Sense.
