ugh incursion of wolves,
flocked in as soon as they were aware of the retreat of their enemy.
Lord Cornwallis, upon whom the command devolved after the return of Sir
Henry Clinton in June to New York, recruited his army from these
repentant or unwilling republicans; and the people rejoiced at what they
thought the end of strife and the establishment of law. The auxiliaries
who had marched from Virginia and North Carolina under Colonel Buford,
to assist in the defence of the southern capital, were informed of its
surrender as they journeyed thither, and soon found themselves obliged
to fly through a country they had come to succor;--and when even at the
distance of one hundred and fifty miles from the city, were overtaken by
the ruthless troopers of Tarleton, and butchered under circumstances
peculiarly deplorable.

In truth, a large proportion of the population of South Carolina seem to
have regarded the revolution with disfavor, and they were slow to break
their ancient friendship for the land of their forefathers. The colonial
government was mild and beneficent in its action upon the province, and
the people had a reverence for the mother country deeper and more
affectionate than was found elsewhere. They did not resent, because,
haply, they did not feel the innovations of right asserted by the
British crown, so acutely as some of their neighbors; to them it did not
seem to be so unreasonable that taxation should be divorced from
representation. They did not quarrel with the assumption of Great
Britain to regulate their trade for them in such manner as best suited
her own views of interest; nor did they see in mere commercial
restrictions the justification of civil war and hot rebellion;--because,
peradventure, (if I may hazard a reason) being a colony of planters
whose products were much in demand in England, neither the regulations
of their trade nor the restrictions upon commerce, were likely to be so
adjusted as to interfere with the profitable expansion of their labors.

Such might be said to be the more popular sentiment of the State at the
time of its subjugation by Sir Henry Clinton and Lord Cornwallis. To
this common feeling there were many brilliant exceptions; and the more
brilliant because they stood, as it were, apart from the preponderating
mass of public judgment. There is no trial of courage which will bear
comparison with that of a man whose own opinions stand in opposition,
upon fearful questions of