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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 46: (search)
he was sure that the unreasonableness of Great Britain would precipitate the epoch of American Independence. South Carolina received his letters, still urging union, directing attention to the Chap. XLVI.} 1770. Dec. necessity, of finding some more efficacious method of redress than a bare resolution to suspend commerce, and encouraging in the young men the ambition of making themselves masters of the art military. Samuel Adams to Peter Timothy of Charleston, South Carolina, Boston, 21 Nov. 1770. Zeal for the cause was not wanting in the South. The people had their tribunes and most determined leaders in Thomas Lynch, praised by royalists as a man of sense, and inflexible firmness, Christopher Gadsden, the enthusiast in the cause, ever suspicious of British moderation, and John Mackenzie, whose English education at Cambridge furnished him with arguments for the Colonies. Lieut. Gov. Wm. Bull, private letter to Hillsborough, 5 Dec. 1770. On the thirteenth of December t