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SATURDA Y,
The reader, by calling his eye on the arrangement of
papers in the order in which I have placed them, which
is the order they stand in in the pamphlet, will fee there
" "^kip (a flying over I may call it) from the conference
on Staten-Island, September 1776, to the receipt of the
British bills at York-Town, April 21st, 1778. I fliall
give the paragraph entire, (for there is but one) which
unites those two events so widely diftaut in time, and, on
the part of the enemy, so different in complexion.
Page 61. “ From this moment," that is, from the con
ference on Staten-Island, " the war raged with the utmost
violence, and was prosecuted by the enemy with unabated
vigour and barbarity. Te recite the numerous instances
th ^ r '""' fole ^mly pledged, hath been broken,
would be tedious and perhaps useless : Vidory declared
herfelf for a long time in favour of their superior numbers
and superior difapl^e, and their insolence was equal to
their success Unable to comprehend the whole of the ob
jeri they had undertaken, and overjoyed at the acquisiti
on of the minuter parts, already the needy, greedy para
sites of a voluptuous court had, in imagination, carved
out our pohn,ions among them, and wantoned in the
profpeft of enjoying the fruits of cur laborious industry.
Every thing, therefore, which looked like conciliation
was treated as a concession flowing from feeblenefs of foul.
The fpint of despotism, flulhed with hope and mured to
gunt, turned a bard, unjeeling eye upon the miseries of
human nature, and directed, well pleased, the storm of
vengeance on the head of freedom. But that fall tide of
success Schick bad earned their expeflati^s so bigb, be^n
Tbe gallant arm;, commanded Burgee,
checked by impediments qvbtcb nature bad thrown in bis
course, at length submitted, notwithstanding the efforts
es their accomplished General, to the determined bravery
°I"a":°"' J™ splendor of our success in that quarter
called the attention of Europe to our fortitude and per
severance The weight and importance of a country
which could resist theaftonithing efforts made by Great'
Britain, were evident to the most carek-fs observation
° f ° u r ^depende^e became there
fore an object of ferieus deliberation. Awakened from
their dream of glory to a view of then danger, the Mi
For the PENNSYLVANIA PACKET.
Mr. DUNLA P,
THROUGH the channel of your paper, I take the li
berty of remarking on a passage in a pamphlet just
come into my hands, entitled, '• Observations on the Arne
'' rican Revolution, published according to a Refaction of
" Congress. B, their Committee."
The gentlemen who, principally, if not wholly, con
duced this work were Governeur Morrifs, Efq§ Delegate
from the state es New-York, and W. H. Drayton, Esq;
late Delegate from South-Carolina; and of,thofe two Mr.
Merrils had the chief share. Consequently, the honours
or errors i, contain, are claimable by, or chargeable on,
the compilers and condudors only.
The work consists of a collection of the principal state
papers, which are connected with the rife and progress of
the present revolution, and are arranged in the following
order:
A part of the proceedings of Con-refs in 1774. The
motion, commonly called Lord North's conciliatory mo
tion,' in February, 1775, and the resolution of Congress
thereon. A paper delivered to Congress by a Britilh emis
sary. Resolutions of Congress refpe&ing the defence of
New-York. Declaratory reasons of Congress for taking
up arms, dated July 6th, 1775. Petition of Congress to
the Kingof England, July Bth, 1775. Address to the
people of Great-Britain, July,Bth, 1775. Resolutions of
Congress, for granting cornmiffions to privateers, of No
vember 25th, 1775, and March 23d, 1776. Relblution
of Congress recommending the taking up new govern
ments, May .sth, 1776. Declaration of independence,
July 4th, 177 b. Conference on Staten-lfland with Lord
Howe, reported September 17th, by the Committee of
Congress appointed on that business. Draught of the bills
of the Eritifh Parliament, received by Congress at Yerk-
Town April the 21st, 1778, and the resolutions of Cen
grefs thereon, April zxd, 1778. Address of Congress to
the people of America, May 4th, 1778. Collodion of
letters, &c. &c. which passed between Congress and the
British Commissioners. The work closes with the Pro
clamation and Manifefto of the said British Commissioners,
dated New-York, Oftober 3d, 1778, and the Manifefto
of Congress in answer thereto, October 30th, ,778. The
greatest part, if not the whole, of those publications,
have, at different times, appeared in most of the News
papers on the continent.
The above making up the substance of the work, the
only thing that is .new in it is the historical connexion by
which the several declarations, resolutions, &c. are form
ed into a continued chain, and in this part there is an
evident defect amounting to injustice.
It cannot be supposed that the historical part should be
cbmpleat in so fliort a cetbpafs, but that is' no reason that
it should be unjust in the gross ; and as Mr. Morrifs and
Mr. Drayton are the only persons accountable for the de
feat I fliall here take notice of, to them, only, I address
these remarks.
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THE
ADVERTISER
Why Mr Morrifs and Mr. Drayton have, in utter si
lence, pahed over the affairs of Trenton and Princeton
and taken a flight from Staten-Island to Saratoga I can'
not conceive As hiftorfans they have rev ers e d fie li^
of fafts, and as writers they have not mad# the most of
' A'^""Ph 0 ? , 0r had the y given honor where it was
justly due, and fkewn where the tide &,, te turn in our
f "?f."'°: ld have enabled them to have shewn its full
en^reafe in the reduction of Burgoyne, where they have
only placed its beginning. 0 J ' °cy nave
.™ re "?,is of the army which at that time continued
of 'Xh^'^"": and tl:e citizens ^ this Rate and
^™ ed ° ut to re P e) the torrent which
F h 5 ea ',e d dif^uriioM to America, must feel themselves
injuied by such a partial representation, published under
the authority ofc Committee of Congrefs.' Their services
are done away, as if they had never been ; and an omif
'° ^viun, hands as a contradiction to
3'l C °' ' d ^ unintentionally happen, as the
, ° r / er b ° th ° f tiffie and cinumfances threw the
,™™ way ' and '' alfa pa ^ e> judiciously compiled
would have united the several lmks of the chain. Jwon
der that the metaphor of a tide mould not revive n Mr
Brayton an d ea of its p% e f s; he ha [
been an frfrf the ,fo, j f fe . '
Lut , ls , n ^ the only injustice in the paragraph I have
The f cm P llers that « the
„ commanded by Burgoyne, checked by impedimeßts
which nature bad thrown in bis course, at length sub.
“ ' n ° tw " h , ndm g the efforts of their accomplish
ed General, to the determined bravery of their foes "
bJiVr' l ^" '' Bennington by General Stark, which
laid the foundation of Burgoyne's defeat, is here urufiv
^^ of
nature threw in bis course.
There is no part in the pamphlet, where halfa dozen
pages might have been employed to more honour
advantage, than in concisely Netting forth the principal
w ^ h p ^ ed betvffi the conferences
Staten-Island ana the arrival of the draughts of the Bri-
As the feufe of the reader would have supplied the
above defect in the writer, 1 ftould not have gone out of
n- way to have made the remark, had it be^n in any
other paragraph than that which I have quoted, on ac
count of a more important inattention.
The insolence &i the enemy alter the : engagement 011
Long Illaud, and their barbarity after taking Fort Wafh
in^ton, were far greater than their vigor at any one time
of that campaign. I speak this from better knowledge
than either Air. Morrifs or Mr. Drayton can have, as I
was out with the army from the firft marching of the af
fociatcrs early in Augufi, and after their return was with
General Green at Fort Lee till the evacuation, and conti
nued wm; tbe army till after their paffng the Delaware
on the eighth of December. I had began the sirs num
ber of the Cnfis while 01. the retreat at Newark, with a de
fi,-.n of pubhfmng ir in the Jerfies, as it was Gen. Wafh^
ingten-s intentions to have rhade a stand at Newark'
could he have been timely reinforced: instead of which'
near hah the army left Lira at that place, or soon after
their timt being out.'
To use a pl tin phrase, the enemy were then makers of
the fiek., and had it in them power to carry every thin^
before them. “ Flulhed with hope and inured to guilt,
and m full expectation e s conquest, their confidence be
trayed them into carelessness, and enabled General Wafh
mgton to defeat them by a spi r it e d and judicious improve
ment of their negleas; bud I a sk Mr. Morrifs and Mr
Drayton, =u.\.en it was that their, the enemy's, " fall tide
G J^f began to ebb away ," Truth will, and hifiory
ought to fay, that it turned at Trenton, and was additi
onally impelled by the subsequent, and more masterly
firoße at Princeton. These two anions disabled and laid
the eiiemy dormant for more than fix months afterwards -
and by throwing a spirit of joy into the continent, eave
life and vigor to the recruiting service for the next cam
paign.. They were hard bought victories, under every
disadvantage of winter and misfortune. But the tide
once turned, went on, and the conquest ©f Burgoyne
wa, properly (peaking, the high water mark of our suc
cesses.
niftry of England determined, if podibie, to recover what
they had wantonly thrown away.
" Onthe ziP day of April," 1778, the Congress, then
fitting at Yerk-Town, received a letter from the General
inck^fc a printed paper from Philadelphia to tae follow
me tlfeft;.
" Draught of a bill for declaring the intentions of the Par
liament of Grear-Lritain," &c. &c. &c.
I have marked toe exceptionable parts ia italics. The
firft, which is immaterial to the hifiory, though of some
moment to the writer, is a falfe rhetorical figure, for “ hard
and unfeeling" are not, in any case, properties of the eye
but Umimentally, off he heart. A hard unfeeling -hearth
a deaf—ear ; and a f rnful— eye; are epithets expressive
of potable qualities,jn the parts they are applied to: But
according to this gentleman's derangement of them, he
might as well fay a fcornful ear or a deaf eve. A man
roust be but little acquainted with feelings, Rot to know
which is their place of residence.
MARCH 20, 1779.