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Feathers Delivered in Confirmation of Friendship
The speaker recalls meeting with Governor of Carolina and presents a bundle of feathers as a pledge. He contrasts their naked condition with the colonists wealth and promises unity with Great King George against common enemies, while warning of slave bonds and iron chains. He asserts shared lineage and readiness to live and die together, concluding with a ceremonial feather offering as a symbol of pledged alliance.
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