A history of the American people . J£^z^ <y&^<srnL/ JOHN ANHKK with the enemy, and plotted to give West Point andthe posts dependent upon it into the hands of the had been deeply unjust to him, promotinghis juniors and inferiors and passing him over; a thou-sand slights had cut him; a thousand subtle forces ofdiscouragement and of social temptation had been at312 THE WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE. work upon him, and he had yielded,—to pique, to bitterdisappointment, to the disorders of a mind unstable,irritable, without nobility. His treason was discoveredin time to be foiled, bu
A history of the American people . J£^z^ <y&^<srnL/ JOHN ANHKK with the enemy, and plotted to give West Point andthe posts dependent upon it into the hands of the had been deeply unjust to him, promotinghis juniors and inferiors and passing him over; a thou-sand slights had cut him; a thousand subtle forces ofdiscouragement and of social temptation had been at312 THE WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE. work upon him, and he had yielded,—to pique, to bitterdisappointment, to the disorders of a mind unstable,irritable, without nobility. His treason was discoveredin time to be foiled, but the heart-breaking fact of itcut Washington to the quick,like a last and wellnigh of bitter dismay. Whocould be trusted now? andwhere was strength to be gotwherewith to carry the lan-guishing work to a worthyfinish? It was the worst of all thebad signs of the times that nogovernment could be agreedupon that would give theyoung states a real union,or assure them of harmony and co-operation in the exercise of the independencefor which they were struggling. Definitive articles ofconfederation had been suggested as of course at thetime the Declaration of Independence was adopted;and the next year (November 15, 1777) the Congresshad adopted the plan which Mr. Dickinson had drawnup and which its committee had reported July 12, the states did not all accept it, and without unani-mous
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