We shall be fired on; we shall risk our lives.

You've done that before, however, and will do it again.
"We have to work out our own problem and fight our own fight.

Well, what I want to know is this--are we to give in to the government, or do we stand to be hammered by Sir Erasmus Gower?
Remember what that means.
It means that if we fight the government ships, we must either die in battle, or die with the ropes round our necks.

There is another way.
I'm not inclined to surrender, or to stand by men who have botched our business for us.

I'm for making for the sea, and, when I get there, I'm for striking for the West Indies, where there's a British fleet fighting Britain's enemies, and for joining in and fighting with them.