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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 18: (search)
ent by happy intuition; rebelled against the politics of the Stuarts; and, uneasy at the royalist principles which prevailed in its forming aristocracy, soon manifested the tendency of the age at the polls The inclinations of the country, wrote Spotswood, when the generation born during the period of Bacon's Chap XVIII.} 1710 rebellion had grown to maturity, are rendered mysterious by a new and unaccountable humor, which hath 1710 obtained in several counties, of excluding the gentlemen from being burgesses, and choosing only persons of mean figure and character. But Spotswood, a royalist, a High Churchman, a traveller, reverenced the virtues of the people. I will do justice to this country, he writes to the bishop of London—and his evidence is without suspicion of a bias; I have observed here less swearing and prophaneness, less drunkenness and debauchery, less uncharitable feuds and animosities, and less knaverys and villanys, than in any part of the world where my lot has been