Now and again, in moments of imminent peril, they had united for a common object; but they fell apart almost at once.

Each had its own pet quarrel with its Governor, which was far more interesting to the people at the moment than anything else.
Julian and Fritz listened in amaze as Ashley, who was a well-informed man and a shrewd observer, put before them, as well as he was able, the state of affairs reigning in Pennsylvania and the sister states.
"I am often ashamed of our policy, of our bickerings, of our tardiness," concluded the good man; "yet for all that there is stuff of the right sort in our people.

We have English blood in our veins, and I always maintain that England is bound to be the dominant power in these lands of the west.

Let them but send us good leaders and generals from the old country, and I will answer for it that the rising generation of New England will fight and will conquer, and drive the encroaching French back whence they came!".