. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen. sor Tyler suggests becamethe apostle of political free-mindedness—neces-sary to rid Americans of their sentimental attach-ment to the crown. Toward the military in-vaders of the country and their American allies Hopkinson drove the shafts of his ready wit. Allhope of reconciliation having passed away, Fran-cis Hopkinson sent flying through America a series of his writings, most of which were peculiarily characteristic of him, and of hisability to be severe without being either violentor uncivil. While Washington was retrea
. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen. sor Tyler suggests becamethe apostle of political free-mindedness—neces-sary to rid Americans of their sentimental attach-ment to the crown. Toward the military in-vaders of the country and their American allies Hopkinson drove the shafts of his ready wit. Allhope of reconciliation having passed away, Fran-cis Hopkinson sent flying through America a series of his writings, most of which were peculiarily characteristic of him, and of hisability to be severe without being either violentor uncivil. While Washington was retreatingthrough the Jerseys came A Letter to LordHowe, and shortly afterward A PoliticalCatechism, a clear, succinct history of thecauses of the war, and the war itself until for the soldiers, he wrote his Camp Bal-lad/ of which the last stanza is more than amemory: On Heaven and Washington placing relianceWell meet the bold Briton and bid him defiance;Our cause well support, for t is just and t is men fight for freedom, they must be WASHINGTONS BOOKPLATE. The summer of 1777 brought the counter proc- 286 NEW JERSEY AS A COL lamation to Burgoyne, a peculiarly happy effort,as was his ballad dealing with the surrender ofthat English general. The Battle of the Kegs, far from being inHopkinsons best style, gained a vast the Battle of the Kegs he is best knownto the mass of the people. David Bushnell, ofConnecticut, had prepared kegs filled with gun-powder, which were floated down the Delawarefor the purpose of annoying the British shippingat Philadelphia. At these objects, as well as ev-erything else visible in the river, the British aresaid to have discharged their small arms andcannon. The Battle of the Kegs seldom ap-pears, without expurgation, on account of an al-lusion to Lord Howe and his relations to , a woman of prominence in Philadelphia,the wife of a member of his military family. Nor were his attacks against the
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