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"Washington at Valley Forge" from Lotting "Life of Washington." f By ELMO SCOTT WATSON T IS common knowledge to most American t tint the greater port of the credit for winning the War of the Revolution and the Independ ence .of the Thirteen Colonies belongs to one man George Washington. Rut how many Americans, except possibly a few historians, know that Washington won, not so much because of the aid given him by the major-Itof the people In those colonies, but rather In Yet thnt Is the simple fait Bplte of them? And It la a fact which is presented so convincingly In a new hook that to deny It or attempt to conceal the fact that Washlngtona gigantic task was made all the more difficult by the corruption, treachery, and cowardice of the very people he was trying to serve Is to shamefully deny him the honor and reverence due him for accent pushing his task. That book Is the third volume In Rupert Hughes biography, published recently by William Morrow and company and benrlng the appropriate title of The Savior of the States. The graft and profiteering of the times was stupendous, and It la unjust to Washington as well as to truth to conceal any longer the fact that the generation of Americans which coincided with the Revolution was far from being the supremely virtuous race Its descendants have been pleased to pretend, says Mr. Hughes. 1 had either to suppress Washingtons Innumerable denunciations or do something to Justify them. Offensive as this material will perhaps appear to certain types of patriots, I regret that I could publish only a slight skimming of the vast caulHe dron of corruption, greed and selfishness. then continues: If tha Americana of that time had been what their posterity Imagines, or anything like It, they would have driven the British Into the sea In a few weeks and set up a government of Ideal beauBecause they were what they ty Immediately were and were not what they were not, poor Washwas never able to give his military abiliington ties a real test, but was compelled to spend most of his time running away from a lazy enemy or keeping a safe distance while he sent out vain appeals for food, money, old clothes, soldiers, helpful legislation, the deferment of mutual jealousies, some unity of action. The reader of this volume will feel that the author of It has a very low opinion of the majority of Americans contemporary with Washington This Is true, and If there were room for more evidence there would be evidence of a still lower opinion an opinion almost as low as Washington s own A few soldiers, a few statesmen, a few devoted men did all the work, suffered all the hardships, and saved the country In spite of itself, while the majority ran awaywasor kept aloof, grew fat and That Washington's Infinitely relooked on peated declaration, and It Is aa Insult to his memIt longer ory to conceal The more I read of the American Revolution the more difficult I find It to understand how It ever I can hardly believe that It could have succeeded. As a matter of fact It never did succeed In did was at meant the beginning, and Its rethe way It sults wers not at all what they were expected to bs at the end of It, heart-breaklng- ly Insofar as the writer of those lines has been listed among the "detractors of Washington and the publication of the first volume of his four years ago resulted In a lengthy controversy In which lie was misquoted, misinterpreted and attacked by many who had not even read Ills hook und depended uimn hearsay for their views on the subject, the following lines In the new volume are slgulfiennt: The more I study Washington the greater and better I think him, yet I am not trying to prove him great or good I am trying solely to describe He him aa he was and let him epeak for himself w aa a man of such tremendous undeniable athleve-methat he does not rued to be bolstered with of supprespropaganda, protected bv a priestcraft sion, or celehruted by any more fourth of July oratory Since In this hook George Washington speaks for himself It would be a truly patriotic duty for Americuns to read In Washington's own words of the agonies of mind and body which he suffered In their behalf und to realize, perhaps for tlie first time, the wisdom, the valor and the unselfish devotion of the man whose birthday we celebrate on February '."J. If they did that, perhaps the celebration of that day would have a new meaning for them. This new volume in Hughes biugraphy begins with The Dawn of 77. For Washington it was a cheerless dawn for the year 177(5 ended for him as a twelvemonth of almost unrelieved heartbreaks for which he could blame only his Written on its pages were the plot to assassinate him In New York, the failure of the expedition against Cunada. the defeat and slaughter on Long Island, the shameful panic and stain pede of his troops at Harlem, the defeat at White Plains, the loss of Fort Washington and Fort Lee and his flight across New Jersey with his array melting away so that he crossed the Delaware with only 3,000 of the 18.000 men he had had before the battle of Long Island. His brilliant victory at Trenton the day after Christmas was one bright spot in tlie whole dismal year and when he would follow up that victory he found himself balked. For the term of enlistment of the Continental troops would soon end and the only way to hold them was by offering a bounty. He cou'd expect no help from con gress which had fled from Philadelphia at the approach of Genera! Howe However, as he wrote to congress on January 1. 1777, After much per suasion, and the exertions of their officers, half or a greater proportion of those from the east ward have consented to stay six week9 on a bounty of ten dollars. But nearly half of those who promised to stay changed their minds and left for home taking the bounty with them! So when he crossed the Delaware again on New Year's day he had 1,(700 men. as compared to 2,f00 with which he had crossed for the attack on Trenton. With this slender force he conceived the audacious idea of an attack on the British at Princeton Tha story of that expedition Is a familiar y blog-ruph- nt fellow-citizen- s. one how he outwitted Cornwallis, who thought he had the old fox In a trap, how he defeated the British force at Princeton, killed 100 and took prisoners and then retreated safely to Morristown. while Cornwallis went puffing on to Brunswick expecting to find Washington ahead of him. But tills was tlie Inst triumph which he was to enoy for a long time. Before him during that veur of the three sevens" were the failures at Brandywine and Germantown, failures on the part of his officers but charged up against him because he was the commander. And In the north Ids rival. Gates, who aspired to aucceed him as p commander-in-chief- , was triumphing over at Saratoga. Before him. too. was the threat of the conspiracy to supplant him, known as the Conway cabal since, as Hughes shows. General Conway was in reality the catspavv for others, and the terrible winter at Valley Forge. Nor was 1773 much better. Against the recovery of Philadelphia, the success at Monmouth and the arrival of a French fleet to aid the patriots, must be checked the steady decline in men and money which threatened a total collapse of the fight for freedom. The same can be said of 1779 which ended In starvation and stagnation in the winter camp at Morristown. Though it never supplanted Valley Forge in popular memory, savs Hughes, "Morristown was the scene of far more cruel hardships for the army." But if these years had been bad, 17S0 was to There was prove the year of crowning disaster the defeat of Gates at Camden and the loss of nearly all of the South to the British There was the treason of Benedict Arnold and the failure of the French aid to bring any decisive result. And then at the beginning of 1781 came the mutiny of the Pennsylvania and New Jersey troops. But if the new year opened with despair it was destined to close with a triumph, the greatest In Washington's career as a military leader. For October brought Ynrktown, the surrender of Cornwallis and the victory which assured the success of the fight for liberty. This brief and necessarily Inadequate epitome of those four fateful years can only hint at what the Savior of the Slates endured during that time. The full story of It cannot even be told in Hughes thick volume of 700 pages, although it tells enough to Justify his declaration that he cannot understand how the Revolution ever could have succeeded Here is an amazing story of ail the worst in human nature from which could be drawn up a terrific Indictment of our forefathers. But depressing as that story is It but serves to throw into higher relief the gigantic figure of the man whom Americans ever since he suffered so deeply and strove so mightily in their behalf have come to honor as the Father of His Country. 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