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

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Excerpt from Our Debt to Cornelius Harnett: An AddressThe 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.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.