..Under the crown, American history; . andpoint,each listening respectfully to the others views, andeach ending as firm as before in his own opinion. It was to George Fairfax that Washington WASHINGTON AT BELVOIR. 115 gave utterance to that noble cry of feeling about the coming conflict: Unhappy it is to reflect that a brothers sword has been sheathed in a brothers breast, and that the once happy and peaceful plains of America are to be either drenched with blood or inhabited by slaves. Sad alternative! But can a virtuous man hesitate in his choice?George Fairfax sailed finally for England, pa
..Under the crown, American history; . andpoint,each listening respectfully to the others views, andeach ending as firm as before in his own opinion. It was to George Fairfax that Washington WASHINGTON AT BELVOIR. 115 gave utterance to that noble cry of feeling about the coming conflict: Unhappy it is to reflect that a brothers sword has been sheathed in a brothers breast, and that the once happy and peaceful plains of America are to be either drenched with blood or inhabited by slaves. Sad alternative! But can a virtuous man hesitate in his choice?George Fairfax sailed finally for England, passing the famous teaships coming intoBoston harbor, and inEngland the conscien-tious Tory thereafterlived and died. During his absenceat this time Washington George wiluam fmrfax. charged himself with the care of Belvoir, and the various affairsrelating to his friends Virginia estate. Fairfaxsdeath was a blow to him, and their correspond-ence up to that moment shows no diminutionof a lifelong confidence and love. Mrs. Burton THE RESCUE. IT was that disastrous July, 1755, in which thecolonies of Virginia and Maryland passedthrough one of the most cruel periods of theirhistory. General Braddocks advance-guard hadmarched blindly into the ambush on the banksof the Monongahela contrived for them by anenemy ignorantly despised; and it was twelvehours since Colonel Dunbar, yielding to thepanic, had ordered a retreat. Slowly the routed army trailed along the roughroad they had made a week ago. The Indiansand their French allies hung about the retreat,following through the close-growing underbrush. To provide transport for the many wounded,Dunbar had abandoned ammunition and provi-sions. But the wagons thus secured were socrowded, the July heat and the feverish thirstwere so unendurable, that the sturdiest sufferersbecame delirious. The guarding of these wounded had beenassigned to the unhurt survivors of the advance-guard, who surrounded the wagons; and amongthem marched a b
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