Those who explore and settle new countries are generally bold, hardy, and adventurous men, whose minds, as well as bodies, are fitted to encounter danger and fatigue; their object is the acquisition of property, and they generally succeed.
Beveridge describes the characteristics of pioneers who explore and settle new territories, highlighting their adventurous spirit.
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The Virginians, on their part, found the giving of new notes a convenient way of canceling old obligations and thus piled up mountains of debt which they found hard to remove.
Washington was the soul of the American cause.
Thus were the ideas of Nationality and localism in America brought into sharper conflict by the mob and guillotine in France.
Thus provincialism in the form of States' Rights was given a fresh impulse and a new vitality.
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