The Great Awakening powerfully shaped Samuel Adams and Patrick Henry (and touched Benjamin Franklin, who finally rejected it). But be careful–the greatest evangelist of the end of the 18th century was John Wesley, and he told his American followers to support the King.Occasionally in traversing Right-World one finds favorable references to William Cobbett, a turn of the century journalist (my turn of the century is 1800). G.K. Chesterton adored him. Well, Cobbett loathed Wilberforce–too rich, too busybody, too pro-Negro–which tells you almost all you need to know about what a creepy guy Cobbett was. NB: Cobbett had a great journalistic style. I discuss him a little bit in Alexander Hamilton, American.