The author of the Olive Branch Petition uses rhetoric to enhance his argument because he was trying to persuade King George III to allow the colonists to have peace, justice, and safety. An example in the document is, "God, to your Majesty, to our fellow subjects, and to ourselves, immediately to use all the means in our power not incompatible with our safety, for stopping the further effusion of blood, and for averting the impending calamities that threaten the British Empire" (Paragraph 8). The reason why he was trying to persuade the King was because he did not want him to think of the petition as a threat but more as a compromise. An example is, "We therefore beseech your Majesty, that your royal authority and influence may be graciously interposed to procure us relief [sic] from our afflicting fears and jealousies occasioned by the system before mentioned, and to settle peace through every part of your dominions, with all humility submitting to your Majesty's wise consideration, whether it may not be expedient for facilitating those important purposes, that your Majesty be pleased to direct some mode by which the united applications of your faithful colonists to the throne, in pursuance of their common councils, may be improved into a happy and permanent reconciliation" (Paragraph 12). The author implied that if the British accepted their request, both the British government and the American colonists will improve more economically.