Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1811-03-29

&NA 80 tRt'~ - fffNt N.Y.
! accusation Win a whole life passed in
the ways of virtue, serve to vindicate his
innocensel Let then my nnprinciplcd &C
cusers examine my whole life, private as
well as public ; let them search diligently ;
aud if they can find one dishonest act, a
| single departure from truth, one instance
of deception, then, my frllow-citizens, re-
icct as unworthy Of your notice, all the
statements and reasonings which ! lave
heretofore addressed, or shall ersafter adj
dress to you.
The herd Of libel,ers, your pretended
friends but worst enemies, have the audsr
city to call me !" An Old British Tory -
IL am old, for have lived sixty. Ave years.
But from the year 1859, to the close Of the
revolutionary war Ca space Of fourteen
years. | was constantly engaged in oppos-
ing British taxation, British eucroach-
ments on our rights. and British arms.
Until the commencement OF that war in
1875, no one person in my native town
(salem) was more actively engaged than I
Gas my townsmen who survive to this day
well know 10 all the measures Eenerally q.
dopted in opposing British claims. After
the war had commenced, the government
of Massachusetts appointed me TO various
Offices some OF them of no in~considera-
BILE importance. Prom these ! was called
by General Washington to the army under
his command, which Joined in June 177T,
in the Office OF. adiusant general. In the
preceding winter / had marched a rc9i.
ment ofseven hundred men, militia, from
the county of Essex, part of q larger force
from Massachusetts, all under the COM
mand Of General Lincoln, to reinforce the
main army. This winter campaign ter
minated ii New.Jerscy, when General
Washington's Head Quarters were at
Morristown. In September i777 was
fought the battle of Brandywine and in
October that Of Germantown. In both, l
was BY the Generals side, or executing
8 his orders. In the close of 1877, l was
appointed by congress a member of the
continental board Of war-as were Gene
rails Gates and MifHin.-In this station
J served until August i7so /; when, on III,
resignation Of GeneSal Greene, vas de
sired~to accept, and ! received from con
gress. the appointment Of quartcr.master
general !; in which Office I continued TO ths
+ end of the war. In this last period, viz,
7 in 1881, preparations were made for the
: siege Of New York but the French Aeei
: of cooperation disappointed the omman.
der 10 chief, by going into C~hesspeake
/, Bay. A British army, under the com.
: mand Of Lord Cornwallis, was then at
] Yorktown in Virginia.-To capture this
army was now the only object of hope for
the residue of the campaign. Having re-
ceived the Generals orders, I provided
for the march Of the troops destined for
this service, and for the operations Of the
siege Cat which was presently in whas ses-
pccted my department.. The capture of
Yorktown and Of another British army, in
effect, put an end to the war.
What is how the reward Of these long
continued public services, in oprosfTton
to GREAr-BaIrAIs, and during the war,
in the arduous and important Offices which
have mentioned To be pronounced,
by foreign rcnegsdoes and honae.hred VIII
lians. aAnoLD BRIrIsf TeRyw And
why this reproach Bccausc rdid not join
the party, with Mr.. Jefferson at lis head.
which was constantly opposed 70 President
Washington's Observation-Disclosures that
party and my countrymen generally, / re-
ioiced in the prospect Of 4 free government
to be established in France butt did not
shut my eyes to the enormitieP Of the ac-
tors in the French revolution.l And when
afterwards, it became my Official duty, IL
vindication of the conduct and The honor
of our own government and Country, to
state and display, the injustice, thc corrup-
ton, the outrages and the insults Of the
French rulers, and the piracieS by them
authorised and committed on DUR COM
merce, / did not attempt 70 conceal, I
excuse, or make apologies for thern. Aud