Young people's history of the American Revolution . the soldiers. Their loyalty, however, had apparentlynot been appreciated, and long before the passage of theStamp Act they had been becoming angry and rest-less. The men in the North were in reality contend-ing more for the principle than they were from any per-sonal suffering they had been compelled to undergo. Butin North Carolina the people were suffering greatly fromthe personal injustice and oppression of the officers of theking. The judges were corrupt. The public officers didnot seem to care for anything except obtaining by everymeans
Young people's history of the American Revolution . the soldiers. Their loyalty, however, had apparentlynot been appreciated, and long before the passage of theStamp Act they had been becoming angry and rest-less. The men in the North were in reality contend-ing more for the principle than they were from any per-sonal suffering they had been compelled to undergo. Butin North Carolina the people were suffering greatly fromthe personal injustice and oppression of the officers of theking. The judges were corrupt. The public officers didnot seem to care for anything except obtaining by everymeans in their power the largest sums of money possiblefrom the people, who for the most part were poor, andall together there was scarcely a man in the colony whohad not suffered from the rapacity of those who were incontrol. When the Stamp Act itself had been enacted, the NorthCarolina men had been as bitter in their opposition to it ashad their Northern friends. To make matters still worse,Tryon, who afterward became the loyalist governor of New 2
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