A history of the American people . to the government, from Virginia, that every countywas arming a company of men for the avowed pur-pose of protecting their committees/ and that his ownpower of control was gone. There is not a justiceof peace in Virginia, he declared, that acts exceptas a committee-man 1 and it gave him the graver con-cern to see the turn affairs were taking because menof fortune and pre-eminence joined equally with thelowest and meanest in the measures resorted to torob him of authority. To the south and north of Virginia, counsels weredivided. Those who led against the gove
A history of the American people . to the government, from Virginia, that every countywas arming a company of men for the avowed pur-pose of protecting their committees/ and that his ownpower of control was gone. There is not a justiceof peace in Virginia, he declared, that acts exceptas a committee-man 1 and it gave him the graver con-cern to see the turn affairs were taking because menof fortune and pre-eminence joined equally with thelowest and meanest in the measures resorted to torob him of authority. To the south and north of Virginia, counsels weredivided. Those who led against the government inNorth Carolina had good reason to doubt whether theyhad even a bare majority of the people of their colony attheir back. Every country-side in South Carolina, forall Charleston was as hoi as Boston against the min-isters, was full of warm, aggressive, out-spoken sup-porters of the Kings prerogative. The rural districtsof Pennsylvania, every one knew, were peopled withquiet Quakers whose very religion bade them offer no219. THE APPROACH OF REVOLUTION resistance even to oppressive power, and of phlegmaticGermans who cared a vast deal for peaee but very littlefor noisy principles that brought mischief. Many awealthy and fashionable family of Philadelphia, more-over, was much too comfortable and much too pleasant-ly connected with influential people on the other side ofthe water to relish thoughts of breach or rebellion. Vir-ginians, it might have seemed, were themselves remoteenough from the trouble which had arisen in Massa-chusetts to keep them in the cool air of those who waitand will not lead. But they were more in accord thanthe men of Massachusetts itself, and as quick to the close of June, 1775, Charles Lee could writefrom Williamsburg, Never was such vigor and con-cord heard of, not a single traitor, scarcely a silentdissentient. As the men of the several counties arm-ed themselves, as if by a common impulse, all turnedas of course to Colonel Washington, o
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