. The works of Washington Irving. eat for nearly an hundred miles, brought offour ammunition, all our field-pieces, the great-est part of our stores, and had four rivers topass. None can say that our retreat was pre-cipitate, for we were three weeks in performingit, that the country might have time to comein. Twice we marched back to meet theenemy, and remained out until dark. Thesign of fear was not seen in our camp; andhad not some of the cowardly and disaffectedinhabitants spread false alarms through thecountry, the Jerseys had never been rav-aged. And this is his testimony to the moral qua
. The works of Washington Irving. eat for nearly an hundred miles, brought offour ammunition, all our field-pieces, the great-est part of our stores, and had four rivers topass. None can say that our retreat was pre-cipitate, for we were three weeks in performingit, that the country might have time to comein. Twice we marched back to meet theenemy, and remained out until dark. Thesign of fear was not seen in our camp; andhad not some of the cowardly and disaffectedinhabitants spread false alarms through thecountry, the Jerseys had never been rav-aged. And this is his testimony to the moral quali-ties of the commander-in-chief, as evinced inthis time of perils and hardships : Voltairehas remarked, that King WilUam never ap-peared to full advantage but in difficulties andin action. The same remark may be madeof General Washington, for the character fitshim. There is a natural firmness in someminds, which cannot be unlocked by trifles ;but which, when unlocked, discovers a cabinetof fortitude; and I reckon it among those. Cbapter ffDHIFIT.
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