Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1847-02-23
JOLIET, LMofs, FEBRUARY. %, 1s47..@a


ed arm for the fight again. ''''7S ..
Those retteating men turned, they faced
the enemy again-iike greyhounds at bay
sbefoTs' the volt 2lhey sprang upon the
,necks of HE foe. and bore them down by
one desperate charge. y 30 s'9''4 7hsi
It was at this rnomentthat Washington
came rushing on once more to the battle.
Those people know but little of the
American General who call him the A.
nerlcan Fabins, thatSis, a general com
pound of prudence and caution, with but a
spark af eHterpeize. American Fahius!
When you Will show me that the Roman
Fabius had d heart Of fire, nerves Of steel,
soul that hungered for the charge, an
enterprise that rushed from wilds like the
Skippack upon an army, like the British
at Germantown, or started from ice and
snow, like that which lay across the Del.
aware, upon hordes like those of the He's.
SLAMS, at Trenton-then L will lower
Washington down into a4Fabius. This
comparisons of our heroes. with the bar.
harlan deni.gods of Rome, only illustrates
the poverty OF the mindthat makes it. 4f@
Compare Btutus, the assassin of his
friend, with Washington. the Saviour of
the People Cicero the Opponent Of
Catalina, with Henry, the Champion Of a
Continenti raa 80 55sad 70 cs
What beggary Of thought! Let u.
learn to be q little Independent, to know
our great men, as they were, not by com
parison with the barbarian heroes of old
Rome. 80 .u3al tir aa7 -a3s
Let us learn that Washington was no
negative thing. but all chivalry and genius
Awas in the battle of Brandywine that
this truth was made plain. He came
rushing on to battle. He heheld his men
hewn down by the British; he heard
them shrek his name, and regardless of
his personal safety, he rushed to join them.
Yes, il was in the dread havoc Of. that
retreat that Washington rushing forward
into the very centre of the melee, was en-
tang led in the enemy's troops, on the top
of a high hill, southwest of the Meeting
House, while. Pulaski was sweeping on
with his grim smile, TO have one more
bout. with the eager red coats. .....a, .,..'l
Washington. was in terrible danger
his troops were rushing to the south-tke
British troopers came sweeping up the hill
and around him. while Pulaski, Oh hill
a hundred yards distant. was scattering
a parting blessing among the hordes OF
Hanover. -r.. r. .....
/ was glorious prize, this MISTER
Washington, in the heart of the British
army. go. ,.r. .,......, .........l
Suddenly the Polander turned-his eye
caught the iron grey and his rider. He
turned to his troopers his whlskernd lip
wreathed with a grim smile-ke waved
his sword--he pointed to the iron grey and
its rider. ..... ...........- 5000. ~. %
/ There was but one moment: 49,. .....
With one impulse that iron band wheel
ed their war horses, and then dark body
solid and compact, was speeding over the
valley like. a thunderbol',. sped from the
heavens--three hundred swords rose gilt
tering in ia int glimpse of sunlight--and
in front of the avalanche, with his form
raised to its full height a dark ,frown On
his brow, fierce smile on hi. lip, rode
Pulaski. Like spirit reused into life, by
the thunGerbelt, he rode his eyes were
liked upon the iron grey and its rider-his
band had but one look, one WILL one shout
for-W Washington!
The British troops had encircled the
American lesder-already they felt secure
of their prey--Already the head Of that
traitor, Washington, seemed to yewn
above the gates OF London. : q - 'iii Al
But that trembling Ct the earth in ;he
valley yonder. What means it2
That terrible beating of hoofs, what
does it portend!
That ominous silence-and nov that
shout-not of words or of names, but that
half yell, half hurrah, which shrieks from
the Iron Men, as they scent their prey?
What means it all :? -a".f .st OIL
Pulaski is On our track! The terror Of
the British army is in our wske! 4
And on he came-he and his gallant
band. A moment and he had swept over
the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, dead
and dying they strewed the green sod.-he
had passed over the bill, he had passed
the form Of Washington. aai.1
Another moment, And the iron band
had wheeled-back in the same career
Of death they came Routed, defeated,
crushed. the red coats fee from the hill,
while the ir band sweep round the form
of George Washington--they encircle him
with their forms of oak, their swords Of
steel-the shout of his name shrieks thro'
the air, and away to the American host
they bear him in all soldiers battle Joy.
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1t was at Savannah that night came
down upon Pulaski. e .t'2.si;ts
Yes, Isee him now, under the gloom Of
night riding forwards towards yonder
rsmparts, his black steed rearing alofi,
while two hundred of his own men follow
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