The Patowmac Guardian, And Berkeley Advertiser

There is a difference between the French and American Revolution. In America no barbarities were perpetrated—no men's heads were stuck up on poles—no ladies' bodies, mangled, were carried through the streets in triumph—their prisoners guarded and ironed, were not massacred in cold blood. The Americans did not, at discretion, harass, murder, or plunder the Clergy—nor roast their Generals, unjustly, alive. They set limits to their vices, at which their pursuits rested. And whatever blood was shed, flowed gallantly in the field.

The American Revolution, it ought to be repeated, was not accomplished as the French has been, by massacres, assassinations, or proscriptions; battles, severe and honorable, were fought, and the chance of war left to decide.