The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1862-03-12
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completely drenched his men that their
whole stock Of ammunition was rendered
unfit for use, and the army was compelled to
fall back. 1t is stated that at this time there
were scarcely two guns of the same calibre
in the army. One regiment reviewed nine
Ity muskets and seven bayonets.
Our night attack on Germantown was a
failure, and the enemy held Philadelphia
without moIestation. Their next object was
to open The Delaware. Washington wished
to preserve his forts. We strengthened aud
+ threw men into them. The enemy were re.
pulsed in a land attack on one of them.
Then they broBght their ships to bear, and
" sheIled" the forts until they were no longer
Itenabled and were abandoned. Washington
seemed never afterwards to have resisted the
British on the water. or near the water-lt
we except the capture of CORVALLIS. The
British were supreme on that element. La
his own words: to protect the coast from
an enemy entirely in possession Of the sea IS
impracticabe."
But Washington never disbanded his army,
and his victories we're chiefly in the interior,
where the enemy was compelled to pursue
him on their theory of subjugation.
We look with apprehension upon the nu-
merous expeditions of our enemy. How
was il with the invasion Of our ancestors
A large BRUSH army held New York and
the Jerseys. Another lay .unmolested at
4 Philadelphia. An expedition, under Bur-
goyne, came in from Canada. To the con-
siernaton OF all. Ticonderoga i'm.
lpregnable its capture due. in A great
part, to the shipping which accompanied
Burgoyne. Our stores and artillery fell in
TO the hands Of The enemy. Another expe.
idition advanced from the Canadian border.
Ii was composed IL loyali.t Canadians, with
large force Of Indians. Yet Burgoyne was
captured with his army. when he penetrated
to Tie centre Of New York, and the Indian
Expedition came TO naught.
n We shall not at present take up the South.
ern campaign 10 show Virginia invaded, her
capital occupied by the enemy, aud Carolina
aud Georgia incapable Of resistance. We
only remind our readers that in the course
Of the war. New York aud Philadelphia fell
into the hands Of the enemy, that Norfolk
was burned, and Charleston aud Savannah
captured.
Ii ii were within onr limits 10 describe the
condition of the army aud country at thai
period, our readers would be astonlshed al
the picture.
The United States Treasury was without
money or credit Tie troops without aims
ammunition or clothes. The people withou
accumulated wealth or current supplies 0
the most necessary character. The countr!
was divided in opinion. The temptation:
of safety and comfort were held nut to the
timid and mercenary. Threats of dealt
and conii.cation published against those Wht
persisted.
Yet the approval Of Providence. the reso'
lutte and unylelding resistance OF the people
aud mode Of warfare appropriate to The e
mergency, bore our ancestors triumphant!
oui of this most unequal aud terrible strife.
When we review the present resources 0
our country, the many advantages which W
possess. the infinitely greater difference be
tween submitting TO the hereditary rule oi ;
distant government aud the domination .
present abolitinnists. ignorant and ,ielou
aliens, and the accumulated aboInlnatiO
which Northern wickedness will poor upo
us-when we know that subjugaIi0n implies
tile coniiscaiiun oi our property With the de
liberate extirpation Of everything OF which
yirginian is proud, and the substitution 81 a
lie has been taught TO apprehend and abhc
I'VE see that, whilst our cause i far mor
/, hopeful than than that of our ancestors, "
have thousand laid more motives TO resis
! our infamous invader TO an extremity I
J which the present condition Of affairs happi
/, " affords no intmatioI.