Winchester gazette. [volume] (Winchester, Va.) 18??-1826, 1815-10-31
PROPOSALS,

PROPOSALS,
BY JOHN HOPKINS, OF PHILADELPHIA,
FOR PUBLISHING BY suBscRIprIoN,
A HISTORY
OF THE
american Revolution,
Compreheudins all the Principai E.
vents, both in the Field and
in the Cabinet.
BY PAUL ALLEN, ESQ.
TO WHICH WILL AHB.D
The most important Resolutions Of the
Continental Congress, and many
OF the most interesting Let
ters and Orders of
GEN. WA SHINGTON,
a CCOMPANIED by Document.
4 \ from the Original Manuscripts of
Generals Gates, Green, Hand, &c. sc.
&c. Together with many others collect
ed by BERNARD HusLrY, ESQ. captain
IN the German Regiment of the Penusyl-
vania line, and member of the Society Of
Cincinnati, who, besides several Iour-
nails OF his brother officers, obtained fror,
general Edward Hand, the last adiutant
general all the General Orders, Papers,
ana documents belonging to that depart.
ment, from the time of the aupointm.n IN,
OF general Gates the Grs, adiu,ane gene.
raj. ss"S-
Notwithstanding several histories ot
eur revolutionary contest have already
appeared, a clear and distinct view Of
the suiferings and Privations of the Anne.
ricsn army has not been given. The
prominent events, it is true, have been
iaiTiy' faithfully. and impartially nara
.so' ana these seem to have engrossed
the attention of The writer's SO much, that
,ney nave passed slightly these less splsn-
oid, but more trying. and interesting no.
riods. 1t was not in the hour of battIe
thaf our national excrtions were 81 die
,inguished, as when our patriotic army
had to endure all the rieours of an inclc.
ment season and the su i,eradded miseries
OF famine and nakedness, with a yictori-
GUS ana insulting enemy in front. The
Paueace, fortitude, and perseverance.
with which they encountered rbc.a M.
rils' is worthy of all praise r. ;s be,e
ia: VIC, Inc character OF Washington shines
WIN ITS loveliest lustre. He remonstra.
tea' ne intreated where remonstrance
a,u intreafy would avail, and he impns-
50 sanitary severity where they wopld
no' &c Is proposed to make this history
severely .8lherifan--to furnish TO RI.
1cAaer true picture of the sufferinss of
o"i patriotic army--to show with what
invIacibie consistency and for,itude thew
encountered the severest trials and This.
1t 10 presumed, may be successfully ,c
comPlished by the documents of TIE lar.
captain Hubley. law
histories OF this kind serve TO establish
this important fact, that it is for rbe oo-
vsrnmeot to give the tone to the marion.
Amidst the dismal moments of orr r,vn.
lntionary conflict, when nothing bur f..
mine, defeat and poverty threa tened the
army aud the cabinet. it was reserved g.,
a lew choice and heroic spirits to he th.
narbingers OF plenty, to reinstate conf;
oence, and finally to consummate the in
dependence Of the country. This H;srorv
lnculcates the principle, -never TO desn.;,
OF the Commonwealth, and that onr mn,
tionai disasters can never he 10, o,.a.
FOR courage, patriotism, and politicsi !,
tegrity, under the smiles of d;v;n. prn
"SS w ASuSSMs llcSc InfefesfIno~
truths need no embellishments tb.Ss,
speak their own panygyrics, and notbino
bat an impartial narrative is wantino r.
impress their conviction On the n;Dd
History, when considered as mere cola
collection of facts, is scarcely worth tbs
pans OF Perusal it only demand, onr
reverence when it enforses by oxamnI.
the great principles Of law, Justice. and
policy. anu
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