Our Debt to Cornelius Harnett: An Address (Classic Reprint)

Name: Our Debt to Cornelius Harnett: An Address (Classic Reprint)
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By Smith, Charles Alphonso

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Excerpt from Our Debt to Cornelius Harnett<br/><br/>The year 1771 witnessed another crisis in North Caro lina history, the uprising of the Regulators, culminating on the 16th of May in the Battle of Alamance. To one who studies carefully the character of Harnett it occa sions no surprise that he did not sympathize with the Regulators. He had neither the mind of a visionary nor the temper of an insurrectionist. He knew that the time was not ripe for measuring swords with the armies of King George. He saw clearly also that the Regula tors were held together not by the cohesion of principle but merely by a common hatred of governmental officials and a determination to wreak vengeance upon them. No man felt more keenly than Harnett the difference between liberty and license. To his mind the Regulators were playing with fire; they were adopting measures that were neither remedial nor palliative; they were jeop ardizing the very existence of free institutions and con stituted authority.

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Number of Pages:

40

Release Date:

2018-05-01

Publication Date:

2018-05-01

Publisher:

FB&C LTD

Languages:

Published: English, Original: English

ISBN10:

0366404741

Weight:

213 g

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