But by habit and by training each was local rather than National in its outlook.

The Georgian had nothing in common with the men of Massachusetts Bay whose livelihood depended upon fisheries, or with the Virginian of the Western border, to whom his relations with the Indians were his paramount concern.

The Rhode Islander, busy with his manufactures, knew and cared nothing for the South Carolinian with his rice plantations.

How to find a common denominator for all these?
That was the business of them all.
The one thing which Washington regarded as likely and against which he wished to have every precaution taken, was a possible attempt of the English to pick a quarrel over some small matter and bring on a renewal of the war.

Fortunately for the Americans, this did not happen.