Their maxim was that of habitual tyranny--"might is right".

They seemed to recognize no other standard.

The articles of capitulation, the laws of nations, private treaty, the dictates of humanity and religion, were all equally set at naught.

The wealth of private families,--slaves by thousands,--were hurried into the waists of British ships, as the legitimate spoils of war.

The latter found a market in the West India islands; the prisoners made by the fall of Charleston were, in defiance of the articles of capitulation, crowded into prison-ships, from whence they were only released by death, or by yielding to those arguments of their keepers which persuaded them to enlist in British regiments, to serve in other countries.