The public services of Gouverneur Morris to 1787 . er v^ath General Schuyler as to the best meansof defence (3). Morris immediately joined the army, and began acorrespondence with the Council of Safety on the military condi-tions. Mis information was? not very definite, and his vague ex-pressions of disaster and depredations did little to cuiet theirapprehensions. The people were a],so clamoring for news; thereforethe Council suggested that they desired more full and -precise in-formation , and that includo some paragraphs ^or the !orris did not take kindly to the suggestion t
The public services of Gouverneur Morris to 1787 . er v^ath General Schuyler as to the best meansof defence (3). Morris immediately joined the army, and began acorrespondence with the Council of Safety on the military condi-tions. Mis information was? not very definite, and his vague ex-pressions of disaster and depredations did little to cuiet theirapprehensions. The people were a],so clamoring for news; thereforethe Council suggested that they desired more full and -precise in-formation , and that includo some paragraphs ^or the !orris did not take kindly to the suggestion that he write to ap-nease the curiosity of the rublic; therefore he replied in a-some-what r)etulant manner; We have received yours of the 19th, vvhichoffered us great pleasure, since we vore enabled in some measure tocollect from it our errand to the , one of the importantobjects of our journey being in the opinion of your honorable (1) Sparks , I, 128. f2) Lincoln, constitutional History ot Nev>r York, I, 491-492.(3) Sparks, I, 17 board to write the ) Shortly after this IJorris returned,prepared to give all reo isite information to the Council of Safe-ty. Schuyler hadd been in corninand of the army during thispart of the campaign, bnt the repeated disasters and his unpopu-larity with the New England troops induced Congree to re-nlace himwith Gates (2). Morris took up Schuylers cause at the beginningof the trouble, and even ^vent down to Philadelphia to intercedefor him. On his dismissal Tuorris wrote him, expressing sympathy,and asking him to sink all personal feeling and consider only thecommon weal of the country (3). xJorris , himself, always acted onthat proposition; and,although he disliked the manner in whichGates h?d attained his , once he had been appointed Morrisgave him ?.ll the support in liis pov^rer. (4) (1) Sparks, I, 134. (2) Ghanning, History of the Tnited States, III, ) Sparks, i, 141. (4) Roosevelt, Gouverneur Morris,
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