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Interesting Revolutionary Incidents and Sketches of Character, Chiefly in the Old North State - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 Excerpt: ...He had been only a short time in this country, and that accounts for his Toryism. The few preachers they had, being all Tories, left the country except the Rev. James Campbell, who was such a strong Whig that he would not even baptize the children of Tories. On this expedition Colonel Caswell kept his men from insulting the persons or plundering the property of Tories, and in that region the name of Caswell is respected to this day. If all the Whig party, or all who went into that region with arms in their hands, had followed the example of Caswell and obeyed the orders of the Congress, a great amount of unnecessary suffering and crime would have been prevented; but individuals and irresponsible companies, who acted without any special authority, seemed to think that, because the Highlanders had risen in arms against the country, and had been vanquished, they were at liberty to insult them, plunder them and trample upon them as they pleased. In this way a great many cruelties and outrages on decency were practised which were too disgusting to appear on the pages of history, and we pass them over with the names of the actors, leaving them to the imagination of the reader, but assuring him that when he has given his imagination full play he will hardly go beyond the reality. The Congress and all the better part of the Whig community deplored these things; but as they were beyond their control, in such a lawless and disordered state of society, they were not to be blamed or held responsible for them. The Tories were not slow to retaliate, and in one sense, they did right, for it is a universal law of nature to protect itself. The worm on which you tread will writhe under your foot; the serpent will coil round and strike its fangs into the instrument by which i...
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- PublisherRarebooksclub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1235883094
- ISBN 13 9781235883095
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages112
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