Life and services of GenAnthony WayneFounded on documentary and other evidence, furnished by his son, ColIsaac Wayne . enttheir emissaries into the camp with tempting solicita-tions, encouraging them to revolt and massacre theirofficers, offering to take them under the protection ofthe British government, and to pay them the amountdue to them from Congress. Surrounded by these ditficulties, Wayne kept uphis rigid discipline, and saw that his orders were ful-filled to the letter. The soldiers now complained thatthey experienced more restraint and stricter duty thanusual in winter. He replied th
Life and services of GenAnthony WayneFounded on documentary and other evidence, furnished by his son, ColIsaac Wayne . enttheir emissaries into the camp with tempting solicita-tions, encouraging them to revolt and massacre theirofficers, offering to take them under the protection ofthe British government, and to pay them the amountdue to them from Congress. Surrounded by these ditficulties, Wayne kept uphis rigid discipline, and saw that his orders were ful-filled to the letter. The soldiers now complained thatthey experienced more restraint and stricter duty thanusual in winter. He replied that he would muchrather be accused of that than a relaxation of ^&czjo/ineor inattention.^ But, in the end, the clouds of dis-content, which he had perceived so long gathering,burst out into a storm, which was attended bv circum-stances the most appalling. Orders appear to have been strictly obeyed, in everyminutiae, up to the hour of nine oclock on the eveningof the 1st of January, when every thing appearedfavorable, and all the soldiers were either in their hutsor properly accounted for. Between nine and ten. LIFE OF ANTHONY WAYNE. 127 however, they rushed from their huts, paraded underarms without officers, forcibly suppHed themselveswith ammunition and provisions, seized six pieces ofartillery, and took the horses from the generals whole division, with a few exceptions, wasfound in a state of open and decided insurrection ; dis-claiming all further obedience, and boldly avowing anintention of immediately abandoning the post, and ofseeking, with arms in their hands, a redress of theirgrievances.* • Wayne, and his brother officers, rushed among themutineers, and appeals, both urgent and frequent ad-dressed as well to the passions as the interests of theoffenders, were faithfully but unsuccessfully tried;compulsatory means, the last resort of invaded authorityfollowed ; blows were given, wounds inflicted and liveslost; but without producing the desired effect, and
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