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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 13: (search)
of gaining time by protracted parleys,—the executive government sent a flag to ask Chap. XIII.} 1779. of the invaders their terms for a capitulation. In answer, the British general offered peace to the inhabitants who would accept protection; to all others, the condition of prisoners of war. The council, at its next meeting, debated giving up the town; Moultrie, Laurens, and Pulaski, who were called in, declared that they had men enough to beat the invaders; and yet against the voice of Gadsden, of Ferguson, of John Edwards, who was moved even to tears, the majority, at heart irritated by the advice of congress to emancipate and arm slaves, proposed a neutrality, during the war between Great Britain and America; the question whether the state shall belong to Great Britain or remain one of the United States to be determined by the treaty of peace between the two powers. Laurens, being called upon to bear this message, scornfully refused, and another was selected. The British gene
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 18: (search)
service of my king, and as I was unvoluntarily an impostor. This request was granted in its full extent, and in the whole progress of the affair he was treated with the most scrupulous delicacy. Hamilton's Account of Arnold's Affair, in Works, i. 176. Andre further wrote: Gentlemen at Charleston on parole were engaged in a conspiracy against us; they are objects who may be set in exchange for me, or are persons whom the treatment I receive might affect. The charge of conspiracy against Gadsden and his fellow-sufferers was groundless; and had been brought forward only as an excuse for shipping them away from the city, where their mere presence kept the love of independence alive. To seek Chap. XVIII.} 1780. Sept. 25. security by a threat of retaliation on innocent men was an unworthy act which received no support from Sir Henry Clinton. Andre was without loss of time conducted to the headquarters of the army at Tappan. His offence was so clear that it would have justified the
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 28: (search)
ion, and all others in high command, were never once led by the assassinations committed under the authority of Lord George Germain to injure the property or take the life of a loyalist, although private anger could not always be restrained. In conformity to the writs issued by Rutledge, as governor, the assembly met in January at Jacksonborough, on the Edisto. In the legislature were many of those who had been released from imprisonment, or had returned from exile. Against the advice of Gadsden, who insisted that it was sound policy to forget and forgive, laws Chap. XXVIII.} 1782. July 11. were passed banishing the active friends of the British government, and confiscating their estates. The Americans could not recover the city of Charleston by arms. The British, under the command of the just and humane General Leslie, gave up every hope of subjugating the state; and Wayne, who was satiate of this horrid trade of blood, and would rather spare one poor savage than destroy twe