Men do not change lightly their political allegiance.

Probably Boston was the most completely revolutionary of American towns.

Yet even in Boston there had been a sad procession of exiles who would not turn against the King.

The South had been more evenly divided.

Now the Loyalists took heart and began to assert themselves.
When the British seemed secure in Georgia bands of Loyalists marched into the British camp in furious joy that now their day was come, and gave no gentle advice as to the crushing of rebellion.