tions from redress thought beneath answer; themselves published as cowards in the councils of their mother country and courts of Europe; armed troops sent among them to enforce submission to these violences; and actual hostilities commenced against them. No alternative was presented but resistance, or unconditional submission. Between these could be no hesitation. They closed in the appeal to arms. (117)
             European perception of the colonies was important to Jefferson because he knew the fledgling nation would need allies to break free of Britain's tyranny. He felt that other European nations would be more inclined to respect and admire a country that simply sought to protect their natural rights to freedom.
             To ease European criticism, Jefferson dispelled the notion that the United States enslaved its indigenous people. Jefferson proclaimed, "An inhuman practice once prevailed in this country of making slaves
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