Levi Hart Quotes
When shall the happy day come when Americans shall be consistently engaged in the cause of liberty?
Contrasting the early American views of freedom with the reality of slavery:
Levi Hart, 1738-1808, Connecticut Clergyman, Liberty Described & Recommended, 1775
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Marion was the initiator of Guerilla Warfare and he and his men traveled lightly spending much time in the South Carolina swamps. They had few supplies and when chased by the British could not stop to hunt. The British called him the “Swamp Fox”. The American colonists at this point still thought of the British as “their countrymen.”
The Congress was encouraging all men volunteer for the military and defend the new nation now that the British were landing in force to put down the revolution. By modern language standards, this is a little “over the top” but it shows not only the passion felt by the Congress but the importance they placed on the struggle.