The daily republic., 1853-08-23
Sparks's Correspondents Of Tire Revo.
luton.

Sparks's Correspondents Of TIE Revo.
lutiOn.
From very full review In the North .asne.
rieaa q the four volumes recently published
under this title BY LIrrLs Z BRowN, Of Bos
ton. we copy the following analysis Of the con
tents: M
'Of course, this publication has much more
variety and dramatic interest than Mr.. Sparks i
selection from Washngton's writings. But it,
rare attractiveness of this kind is of less impor
tance than its historical value as the complement
of that work. Here are the materials, contrib
uted from various quarters, from day to day, or
which Washington made up the judgments an
nounced in his own letters, and embodied in hi.
own measures Here are some two hundred mir
rors, rejecting, at SO many different angles, tn.
figure of the great man, each contributing its owl
witness, and all representing the selfsame au
gust form and port. Nearly two hundred writers
from all parts Of tho country, addressing him OF
their own occasions, without common object o
mutual knowledge, testify in every unconsciou,
line their profound sense of his wisdom, magma
nimty, and Justice. Arnold bows to these quail
ties-Pane recognises them-as much US Lafay
ette and Jay love and revere them. Hamilton il
disappointed, but never complains Henry dis
sents and opposes, but never thinks of blaming
Knox feels deeply hurt, but does not cease to bt
respectful and affectionate. Everybody's trouble.
come to Washington. Sullivan, Schuyler, Mont
gomery, even Greene, tease him with the recita
of their discomforts and dscontents, but the rea
der perceves that they are i'll at case in troubling
=, h,n1yn nr al, go l.
self, and that they are sensible that, after ALL hi.
equanimity will no more be shaken by their en-
barrassments than by his own. Open to advice
close to expression, until the time for word o.
action ame-selfpossessed and unimpassioned
always-no oracle was ever more oracular than
this man among the more sagacious and disinter
ested of his associates while the more mpetuous
or self-seekng never found in the antecedents a
pretence for any charge of injustice, and rarely
found in the consequences any foundation for a
charge of mistake. Nobody, in Congress or in
camp, or elsewhere, presumed to match his own
wisdom with Washington's, except Gates and his
coxcomical set, for little while; and they could
never get up each others courage high enough
to blurt out their crudities to him. The unhappy
Conway did all that he could to resist in himself
LHC iOCUiC iCmdiiAS VI uCIICI AuIuIt, uuI ny duu
by it triumphed, while death seemed to be stand
ing by his bed, and the humble expiation of his
fault made the best possible record Of it's gross
ness. ~ '
'sThe Appendices contain mass of new and
highly interesting matter. The first, which is the
longest, consisting of nearly hundred pages, re-
lates to the operations in Canada from August,
TITS, to the final expulsion of the American forces
from that province in the autumn of the follow
ing year.
''The first Appendix to the second volume tells
the story of the operations of Charles Lee, in the
spring and summer of l776, in Virginia and South
Carolina, including the repulse of the British
squadron from Sullivan's Island, by Colonel Moul-
trie and Colonel Thompson, on the 28th Of June.
"Sir Henry Clinton, as is well known, projected
a push up the Hudson river, to effect junction
with Burgoyne from the north. When this scheme
was frustrated by the capture of the latter, Put
nam had an ill-considered plan of his own for an
assault on New York, which disinclined him to
send the re-enforcements of which Washington
was in sore need in Pennsylvania. These matters
with others incident and consequent to them, are
elucidated in the third Appendix to the second
volume, which ends with highly characteristic
letter from Washington after the withdrawal Of
the distressed army into winter quarters at Valley
Forge.