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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 46: (search)
and too little trained to a participation in public life, to have fixed opinions. The planters were in constant connection with England; enough of them had been bred there to give a tone to society, and a direction to opinion; they looked down upon the boors of the interior as men of low degree, though of eminence in that new country; totally illiterate, though of common natural parts; and there were not wanting agents or partisans of the crown—Fletchall, the very active and spirited Robert Cunningham, Patrick Cunningham and others—to fill the minds of these rude husbandmen with bitterness against the gentlemen. The summer was passed in indecisive struggles for superiority; the crown had its emissaries, whom the Council of safety sent William Henry Drayton and a clergyman, William Tennent, to counteract. The Chap. XLVI.} 1775. July to Oct. opposing parties prepared for war; Fort Augusta in Georgia was taken and held by the Americans; the possession of the fort at Ninety-six was