The country seemed everywhere subdued.

An unnatural and painful apathy dispirited opposition.

The presence of a British force, sufficient to overawe the neighborhood, at conspicuous points, and the awakened activity of the Tories in all quarters, no longer restrained by the presence in arms of their more patriotic countrymen, seemed to settle the question of supremacy.

There was not only no head against the enemy, but the State, on a sudden, appeared to have been deprived of all her distinguished men.

Moultrie and others who might have led, were prisoners of war.