He asked for peace and trust in book 13
4. They were trying to influence the readers, which were mainly the American Colonists and the citizens of countries like England.
5. The readers might not have gotten the point they were trying to make. The repetitive sentences kind of enforced the point they were making.
The faulty logic that the given sentence contains is B. Either-or Fallacy. An either-or fallacy is the limiting of possible answers into two or it is oversimplifying. In the given sentence above, it only gives two possible answers: either meeting the deadline, or if not the town will suffer.
