The correct answer should be Johnatan Swift, Henry Fielding, and Daniel Defoe. They were among the first European novelists, right up there with Cervantes. Swift is famous for Gulliver's Travels, Henry Fielding for Tom Jones, and Daniel Defoe for Robinson Crusoe. They popularized the medium and people started reading novels more than poetry.
Answer: In that excerpt he means that he has an advantage because he swore and oath to defend the government when the south did not have one to destroy it.
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they were weakened becuase they got weak
