Hewatt, Alexander, An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volumes I and II (1779)
Such, at this period, was the happy situation of the people
and province of South Carolina ; safe under the royal care and protection, and
advancing to an opulent state by the unlimited credit and great indul gence
granted by Britain. However, if we proceed a little farther, we shall see the
face of things gradually changing. We shall behold the mother country, as wealth
of her colonies increased, attempting some alteration in their political and
commercial system: and the different
provinces, infected with pride and ambition, aspiring after independence. Let
us take a flight view of the causes of that unhappy quarrel which at this time
began between them, and after wards proceeded to such a degree of violence as
to threaten a total diffolution of all political union and commercial intercourse.
