... 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 que...