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Show t i M oAns story or the first peesiiieotVxSOv Vf. BY THE PRESIDENT JK ' the various distempers of dlffcren men for a brief season gave it a cbauct to succeed. Some were Impatient of Washington Washing-ton "Fabian policy," aa they called It, and would hae had him annihilate. Instead of merely checking, these Invading In-vading hunts. "My toast," cried John Adama. "Is a abort and violent war." Others envied Washington bla power pow-er and bla growing fame, resented their own subordination and hla supremacy, su-premacy, and Intrigued to put General Gales In hla place. Had not Qatei won at Saratoga, and Washington lost at the Urandywlna and at German town? Schuyler bad prepared the victory In the north; Arnold and Mor gan had done the fighting that aecured It; but Gatea had obtained the com mand when all waa ready, and was willing to receive the reward. With a political committee congren In charge of affair, nothing waa Impossible, Im-possible, f Washington and bla army wen atarvlng the while at Valley Forge, la desperate atrmlta to get anything to eat or anything to cover them In thai bitter aeaaon not because there wen no supplies, but because congress bad disorganised the commissary depart ment. and the auppllea aeldom reach ed the camp. The country had not been too hear lly stricken by the war. Abundant crops were everywhere aown and peacefully reaped, and there were met enough to do the work of aeed Um and harvest. The Army Chief Suffsrsrs. It waa only the army that waa auf faring for lack of foed and lack ol men. The naked fact waa that th confederacy waa falling apart for lack of a government. Local selflahnesi had overmaatered national feeling, anc only a few men like Washington held the breaking structure together. Washlngton'a steadfastness waa nev er ahaken; and Mrs. Washington stanch lady that ahe waa, joined bla even at Valley Forge. The Intrigue against him be watch ed In atern alienee till It waa ripe and evident, then be crushed It with aud den exposure, and turned away tn con tempt, hardly ao much aa mentlonlni It In bla lettera to bla frlenda. "Theli own artless teal to advance theli vlewa haa destroyed them," he aald. The Idol of Hla Men. Hla aoldlera he succored and aup piled as be could, himself aharlng theli fer of pardon either to withdraw within with-in the liritlsh lines or to take the oath of allegiance to the United Statea. Men loved to tell afterwarda bow Frederick the Great bad aald It waa the moat brilliant campaign of the century. Congress took steps before tbe winter win-ter waa over to aecure long enlistments, enlist-ments, and aubatltute a veritable army for the three months' levies with which Washington had hitherto been at niggling nig-gling to make ahlft. Pledgee Hla Private Fortune. After tbe affair at Trenton, Washington Wash-ington had been obliged to pledge bla own private fortune for tholr pay to Induce tbe men whoae terma of enlistment enlist-ment were to expire on New Year's day -more than half hla force to atay with him but a few weeks more, till bla plan should be executed. Now be was authorized to ralae regiments enlisted till the war should end, and to exer-clae exer-clae almost dictatorial powera In everything that might affect tbe discipline, disci-pline, provisioning, and aucceaa of bla army. There waa need, for the' year wit-neaaed wit-neaaed fighting of tremendoua consequence. conse-quence. Brave British Plana. The ilrltlah atruck for nothing leaa than complete possession of the whole state of New York, throughout the valleys val-leys of the Hudson and the Mohawk. General Howe, who had about twenty-thousand twenty-thousand men In New York city, waa to move up the Hudson; General Hur-goynn, Hur-goynn, with eight thousand men. from Canada down Lake Cbamplaln; Colonel Colo-nel St. Leger. with a atnall but sufficient suffi-cient force, down Into the valley ot the Mohawk, striking from Oswego, on Ontario; and the colonlea were to be cut In twain. New England hopelessly separated from her confederates, by the converging aweep of three armies, aggregating more than thirty throe thousand men. Hut only the coast country. It turned out, waa tenable ground for Iirltiab troops. Tlconderoga Falls. Sir Guy Carlcton had attempted Champlaln out of Canada the year before, be-fore, and had gone back to Quebec without touching Tlconderga, ao disconcerted dis-concerted bad be been by the price he bad had to pay for his paaaage up the lake to a small force and an extemporised ex-temporised fleet under Ilenedlct Arnold. Arn-old. This time Durgoyne, with bis splendid splen-did army, made short work of Tlconderoga Tlcon-deroga (July, 1777), and drove Gen-ttral Gen-ttral Schuyler and his tinny back to their pouts beyond the Hudson; but the farther be got from bla base upon tbe lake Into tbe vast forests of that wide frontier, tbe more certainly did be approach disaster. No succor came. St. Leger waa baffled, baf-fled, and aent In panic back tbe way he had come. Howe did not ascend tbe liver. The country swarmed with gathering militia. mi-litia. They would not volunteer for distant campaigns; but this Invading host, marching by their very homes into the deep forest, roused tbem and tempted them aa they bad been roused at Concord, and they gathered at Its rear and upon Its flanks aa they bad run together to tnveat Hoston. A thouad men fturgoyne felt obliged to lv e In garrison at Tlconderoga; Tlcon-deroga; a thousand more, sent to Hen-nlngton Hen-nlngton to aeUe the atorea there, were overwhelmed and taken (August 161. Quite twenty thousand provincials presently beset him, and he bad but alx thousand left wherewith to aave himself. t r a i m a i I ' Instalment 15 Congress, In Ita fright, removed to ' raltlmore, hundreds of persons hur rlcd to take the oatb of allegiance upon Howe's offer of pardon; and the Ilrltlah comanders deemed the rebel-I rebel-I lion at an end. They did not understand the man , they were fighting. I When be bad put tbe broad Dela- - ware between bis dwindling regiments i and tho liritlsh at bla heela, be atop-i atop-i ped, undaunted, to collect force and , give bis opponents a taate of his , quality. Such an exigency only stiffened stif-fened his temper, and added a touch , of darlag to hla spirit. Les'a Fiasco and Capture. Charles Lee, bis second In command, I hoping to make tome stroke for himself him-self upon tbe Hudson, bad withheld full half the army In a safe post upon tbe river, in direct disobedience to ordera, while 'the Ilrltlah drove Washington Wash-ington southward through New Jersey; Jer-sey; but Lee waa now happily In the , hand of the enemy, taken at an un-' un-' guarded tavern where be lodged, and most of the troops be had withdrawn found their way at lust to Wanning- ton beyond the Delaware. Desperate efforts at recruiting were mado. Washington strained hla authority au-thority to the utmost to keep and equip his force, and excused himself to congress very nobly. "A character charac-ter to lose," he said, "an estate to forfeit, for-feit, the Inestimable blessing of liberty lib-erty at stake, and a lire devoted must be my excuse." 1 What he planned and did won him a character with hla fori, Ilofo- the year - waa out he had collected six thounand men, and was ready to itrlke a blow at tbe weak, ' extended line Hessian mercenaries for tho most part which Howe had left to hold the Delaware. I On Christmas day Washington made bis advance, and ordered a crossing to be mado In three divisions, under cover of the night. Only his - own division, twenty-five hundred t strong, effected the passage. Twaa ten hours' perilous work to cross the storm-swept river In the pitchy darkness, amidst the hazards of floating Ire, but not a man or a gun was lost. There waa a nine miles' march through driving snow and aleet ' after the landing before Trenton could be reached, the point of attack, and ' tv.o men were frozen to death aa they 1 went. Washington's Famous Order. General Sullivan sent word that the (tins were wet: "Tell him to use i the bayonet," said Washington, "for the town must be taken." And It was takenIn the early morning, at the point of the bayonet. with a loss of but two or three men i The uurprlHe waa complete. Colonel Hahl. the commander of the placn, whs mortally wounded at the first onset, and nine hundred Hessians ' surrendered at discretion. 1 When he bad gotten hla prisoners info on the south side of the river, 1 Washington once more advanced to 1 occupy the town. Plays a Perilous Came. It was a perilous place to be, no doubt, with the great unbridged stream behind him; but the enemy's tine was everywhere broken, now that Its center had boen taken; bad been withdrawn from the river In ' huite. abandoning Its cannon even and ' Ita bnggnf-e at Iturlington; and Wash-1 Wash-1 Ington cxlmly dared to play the game ' he had planned It was not Howe who came to meet him, but the gallant ('ornwallis, no mean adversary, bringing elsht thou-land thou-land men. Washington let him come all the way to Delaware without him. elf stirring, except to put a small tributary stream between bis men and the advancing columns; and the confident con-fident englishman went to bed that filgbt exclaiming. "At laat we , have run down the eld fox, and we'll bag him in the morning." The Fox Eacapea. Then, while a email force kept the camp-fires burning and worked audibly aud-ibly at the ramparta the cold nlgbt through, the fox was up and away. He put tho whole of bla force upon the road to Princeton and New Hruns- Ick, where be knew Cornn sills' stores must be. As tbe morning's light broadened Into day (January 3. 1771 be met tbe Ilrltlah detachment a't Princeton In the way, and drove It back In a decisive rout, a keen ardor coming Into his bleod aa he aaw the sharp work done. "An old fashioned Virginia foxhunt, gentlemen." he exclaimed, shouting the view halloo. Had bla troops been fresh and properly ahod to outatrip (ornwallla at their beds, be would have pressed on to New I'.runswlck and taken the atorea there; but be bad done all that could be done with dispatch, and withdrew atraigbt to tbe heights of Morristown The Patriots Winners. Cornwallia could only naaten bark to New York. Ity tbe end of the month the Americana were everywhere afoot; the frit lah held no poets la New Jersey Jer-sey but Paulua Hook. Amboy. and New I'runaatrk; and Washington bad Issued a proclamation commanding an bo hi trvepied General Howe's .f- tation, gave hlra abundant time to do what he would. It waa Sir Wllllam'a purpose to occupy oc-cupy the early summer, ere Uurgnyne should need blm, In an attack on Philadelphia. Phil-adelphia. On the 12th of June, accordingly, ac-cordingly, be threw a force of eighteen thousand men Into New Jeraey. Hut Washington foiled blm at each attempt to advance by banging always upon bla flank In auch a position that be could neither be aafely Ignored nor forced to fight; and tbe prudent Howe, abandoning tbe march, withdrew once more to New York. British Come to Philadelphia. Dut be did not abandon bla project agatnat Philadelphia. He deemed It tbe "capital" of the insurgent confederacy, and wished to discredit congress and win men of doubtful allegiance to his standard by Ita capture; and be reckoned upon some advantage In drawing Washington Washing-ton after him to tbe southward, away from ilurgoyne'a field of operations In the north. Though July had come, therefore, and Hurgoyne must need him presently, he put his eighteen thousand men aboard tbe fleet and carried them by sea to the Chesapeake. Chesa-peake. Washington Puzzled. Washington was sorely puzzled. lie had taken It for granted that Howe would go north, and be bad gone south! , "Howe's In a manner abandoning Hurgoyne la ao unaccountable," he aald, "that I cannot help casting my eyes continually behind me," and be followed very cautiously, ready upon the moment to turn back, leal tbe movement should prove a feint Hut there was no mistake. Howe entered the Delaware, and, being frightened thence by reports of obstructions ob-structions In the river, went all the long four hundred miles about the capea of Chesapeake, and put bla army ashore at Elkton for Its advance upon Philadelphia. Defeat, But Not Rout. It was then tbe 25th of August Washington met blm (September 11) behind the fords of the Ilrandywlne. and, unable to check Cornwallia on hla flank, waa defeated. put for blm defeat waa never rout; hia army waa atlll Intact and steady; and.be held bis foe yet another fortnight fort-night on the road ere "capital" could be entered (September 27). Hurgoyne was by that time leep within the net spread for blm at Saratoga. Sara-toga. On the morning of the 4th of October, In a thick mist, Washington threw himself upon Howe's, main force encamped acrosa tbe village street of Germantown, and would have overwhelmed It In the surprising onset on-set had not two of bla own columna gone astray in the fog, attacked each other, and so lost tbe moment a opportunity. op-portunity. But an Empty Success. General Howe knew very soon bow barren a juccess be bad had. The end of November came before be bad made himself master of the forta upon up-on the Delaware below the "capita!" and removed the obstructions from the river to give access to hla fleet; the Hrltlsh power waa broken and made an end of In the north; and Washington wga still at band as menacing men-acing and dangerous aa ever. Dr. Franklin waa told In Paris that General Howe had taken Philadelphia. "Philadelphia has taken Hove," he laughed. Winters at Valley Forge. Philadelphia kept Howe safely through the winter, and hla officers made themselves easy amidst a round cf gayetles In the complacent town, while Washington went to Valley Porg to face the hardshlpa and the Intrlguea of a bitter aeaaon. A deep dcmorall;atlon fell that winter, win-ter, like a blight upon all the business busi-ness of tbe struggling confederacy. Tho congress, In Its exile at York, had lost Ita tone and Its command In affaire. af-faire. It would bave loat It aa com plert-ly In Philadelphia, no doubt, for it w as no longer tbe body It bad been. Ita best members were withdrawn to aerve their respective atatea In the critical business, now everywhere In band, of reorganizing their government; govern-ment; and It Itself was no government at a!L but simply a committee of advice, ad-vice, which the states heeded or Ignored Ig-nored as they pleased. Congress Without Power. Oftentimes but ten or twelve members mem-bers could be got together to transact Ha business. It suffered Itself to fall Into tbe banda of Intriguers and aee-tlonal aee-tlonal politicians. It gsve commissions commis-sions In tbe army not according to merit, bat upon a plan carefully devised de-vised to advance no more officers from one seetlon than from another even men like John Adama approving. Adama denounced claims of seniority senior-ity and service as Involving "one of the most putrid corruptions of absolute abso-lute monarchy." and suggested that the officers who did not relish tbe Idea of aeelng tbe several statea given "a ahare of the general officers," proportioned pro-portioned to the number of troops they bad aent to tbe army, bad better take themselves off. and see bow little they would be missed. Plot to Displace Chief. Went of alt an ngly plot waa batched to displace Washington; and ' " J? privations, and earning their love at be served tbem. "Naked and starving as they are," he wrote, "we cannot auf fklently admire the incomparable patience pa-tience and fidelity of the aoldlera." And even out of that grievous winter win-ter aome profit was wrung. 'Hand aome Buina of French money bad begun be-gun of late to come slowly into tbt confederate treasury for France, fot the nonce, waa quick with sympathy for America, and glad to lend secrel aid agalnat an old foe. Presently. sh promised, ahe would recognize the In dependence of the L'nlted Statea, and herself grapple once more with Eng land. Foreign Officers Volunteer. Meanwhile French, German, and Pol Uh offlcere hurried over aea to aervi as volunteers with the raw armies ol tbe confederacy adventurers, some ol them; others sober veterns. gentl men of fortune, men of generous and noble quality among the rest the boy isb Lafayette and tbe distinguished Steuben. TO BK CONTINUED.) i m crossed ine nrer, tor oa ami (Ml expected Howe; and there waa at goto go-to rn fighting about Saratoga (September (Septem-ber 1, October 7). In which Arnold once more made his name la battle. Hut tbe odda acre too great; Bur-goyne'a Bur-goyne'a auppllea were cut off. bla troopa beaten; there waa nothing for It but capitulation (October 17). He bad been trapped and taken by a rising of tbe country. Washington Outgenerals Howe. Hoae bad not succored blm. tartly tart-ly because be laoked Judgment and capacity, partly because Washington bad th arte J him at every tarn. From bis position at MorrUtowa, Washing tun could send retnforcementa to tbe north or recall tbem at will, without sertousi delay; and Hows, la bla beai- |