After the publication of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense and the Declaration of Independence, Loyalists (those sympathetic to the British cause) attempted to dissuade the colonists from further aggravating the strained relations between the colonies and England. The Reverend Charles Inglis, a minister in Delaware and New York, published his response to Common Sense, a pamphlet titled The Deceiver Unmasked, which resulted in the print shop that published it becoming a target for the Sons of Liberty. Undeterred, Inglis republished the document as The True Interest of America Impartially Stated in a renewed effort to encourage the colonial rebellion to come to a peaceful end.