The Story of Georgia and the Georgia People, 1732-1860 Quotes

“Society was in a fearful state. When human life was held at so cheap a rate and when brutal courage was at such a premium; when men had no compunction about getting drunk, if rum could be had; when it was no robbery to take all a Tory had, and no murder to hang him; when children grew to manhood who had never spent a month in the schoolroom, and who had never heard a sermon, it was not to be expected that the morals of the people would be high, or their manners refined, or their intelligence considerable.”
― George Gilman Smith, The Story of Georgia and the Georgia People, 1732-1860