What is pains point in the following passage from “The crisis, No. 1”?

“Whether the independence of the continent was declared too soon, or delayed to long, I will not now enter as an argument;... However, the fault, if it were one, was all our own;... but no great little resolution will soon recover.”

A.) Pains point is whether we delayed too long or declared independence too soon needs to be argued.
B) paines point is that, even thought we may have made a mistake by delaying, we can still recover.
C.) pain’s thesis or point is that we are the only ones to blame for being too soon or too late.
D.) paines point was that no matter how unjust life was, declaring independence was never acceptable.