"The forces under the command of General Prevost marched through the richest settlements of the State, where are the fewest white inhabitants in proportion to the number of slaves. _The hapless Africans, allured with hopes of freedom, forsook their owners_, and repaired in great numbers to the royal army. They endeavored to recommend themselves to their new masters by discovering where their owners had concealed their property, and were assisting in carrying it off."[121] [121] History of South Carolina, Vol. I. pp. 312, 313. The same candid historian, describing the invasion of the next year, says:-- "The slaves a _second_ time _flocked_ to the British army."[122] [122] Ibid., p. 334. At a still later day, Mr. Justice Johnson, of the Supreme Court of the United States, and a citizen of South Carolina, in his elaborate Life of General Greene, speaking of negro slaves, makes the same unhappy admission. He says:-- "But the number dispersed through these [Southern] States was very great,--_so great as to render it impossible for the citizens to muster freemen enough to withstand the pressure of the British arms_."[123] [123] Life of Greene, Vol. II. Appendix, p. 472. Here is illustration from an English pamphlet entitled "Account of the Duckenfield Hall Estate Negroes, 1806, Law Case," where will be found the following incident. "In 1779 I bought ten negroes, which, with sixty others, were taken by a privateer from a plantation in South Carolina." Thus from every quarter are we conducted to the same conclusion. And all this cumulative and unimpeachable testimony is reinforced by testimony of an earlier day, also from South Carolina. The Assembly of the Colony represented to the King, in 1734, that they were "Subject to _many intestine dangers from the great number of negroes_ that are now among us."[124] [124] Grahame, History of the United States, Vol. III. p. 161. Another representation shortly afterwards declared:-- "If any stop be put to the exportation of rice from South Carolina to Europe, it ... may render the whole Colony an easy prey to their neighbors, the Indians and Spaniards, _and also to those yet more dangerous enemies, their own negroes, who are ready to revolt on the first opportunity_, and are eight times as many in number as there are white men able to bear arms."[125] [125] Ibid., p. 215. Thus was it before, as during the Revolution,--weakness always, nothing but weakness. And this is precisely according to human experience. It was in South Carolina as it had been in other lands where Slavery prevailed. Here I read the testimony of a remarkable writer, Archbishop Whately.