to err, and the majority
cannot complain if the minority insist on the same privilege for which
the predominant party are contending--the liberty of judging for
themselves."--_Ib._, Vol. I., p. 483.]

[Footnote 104: Even in South Carolina. Mr. Hildreth remarks:

"Not, however, by armies alone were hostilities carried on. All the
scattered settlements bristled in hostile array. Whigs and Tories
pursued each other with little less than savage fury. Small parties,
everywhere under arms, some on one side, some on the other, with very
little reference to greater operations, were desperately bent on plunder
and blood." (Hildreth's History of the United States, Vol. III., Chap.
xli., p. 329.)]

[Footnote 105: Hildreth's History of the United States, Vol. III., Chap,
xxxiii., pp. 137, 138.]

[Footnote 106: Having thus recovered their capital (Boston), one of the
first acts of government exercised by the Provincial Assembly was to
order the effects and the estates of those who fled with the British
troops to Halifax to be publicly disposed of, and their produce applied
to the use of the State. Such adherents to Britain as had risked to
remain behind, were treated with great severity. They were prosecuted as
enemies and betrayers of their country, and their estates were
confiscated accordingly. (Dr. Andrews' History of the Late War, Vol.
II., Chap. xix., p. 159.)]

[Footnote 107: Lord Mahon's History, etc., Vol. VI., Chap. liii., pp.
127, 128.

"The American Loyalists, in arms on the side of England, had grievous
cause throughout the war to complain of the merciless treatment of such
among them as fell into their countrymen's hands."--_Ib._, Vol. VII.,
Chap. lxvi., p. 250.

"The Legislature of North Carolina passed a law (1780) to put a stop to
the robbery of poor people under the pretence that they were Tories--a
practice carried on even to the plundering of their clothes and
household furniture." (Hildreth's History of the United States, Vol.
III., Chap. xli., p. 329.)

"In New York, in 1776, a rage for plundering, under pretence of taking
Tory property, infected many of the common soldiery, and even some of
the officers." (Dr. Ramsay's History of the United States, Vol. II.,
Chap. xi., p. 154.)]

[Footnote 108: Dr. Ramsay's History of the United States, Vol. II.,
Chap. xi.]

[Footnote 109: Dr. Andrews' History of the Late War, Vol. II., Chap.
xxvi., pp. 370, 371.]

[Footnote 110: In connection with these transa