"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." (from patrick henry's "speech in the virginia convention", 1775)
to whom is the speaker addressing his comments?
a) leaders of the opposition party
b) citizens who share the speaker's aims
c) people who don't understand the conflict
d) enemy soldiers who have captured the speaker