Semi-weekly news., 1865-04-27
The Example.


greater disadvantages, and with more
limited means, than the Revolution
Of '76. Precipitated into rebellion
by the recklessness Of the Lord North
Ministry. with a continent to defend,
and with population scattered from
the kennebec to tn" Floridas, with
cut government, without friends or
credit, and with actual hostili1i-s be-
tween several Of the Coloni-s--tlus
destroying the necessary unity-th.
banner Of independence was thrown
20 the breeze, aud defiance proclaim
ed to naughty Britain.
Col. Washington was chosen by
the Colonial Congress. Commander
in-Chicf Of their armies, june, t77j.
Upon his repairing to Camhridgr
Mass. he found several thousand
raw troops. without any Of thos-
ucc-ssarics which keep armies to
Kcthcr. aud with all his cx-r,iuns
he could only supply nine rounds of
ammunition to each man. FIR twclv,.
months tie lay before Boston, wAilr
the people clamorrd and cursed him
for not accomplishing miracles. His
reason for inaction was thus given to
Congress III private lrttrr:
"'fo have the eyes Of the Who'll,
continent fixed upon me, with anx
ions expectations Of h"aring "i SOM.
great event. aud t" be restrained iu
every military operation for th,. wan,
OF the necessary means I" curry it Oh
IL not v"rf pleasing, especially as
the m-ans used t, conc"al my weak
ness from the enemy, conceal it also
from our friends, aud ado to their
wonder"
Then, Sir VIM. Howe vvacun,-d
Boston, and with q heavy fore. land
I'd upon Long Island, captured on.
fourth of the e lonial army, with two
Major-GtnetA!s, forced ,hr,n to .vac-
ua:c New York, and routed Il pnr ion
of Wnshins,on's army at Whit.
Plains. Forts Washington and Lee.
fell, and the rebel Chief found h m
self, at the close Of til. tirs. Year,
campaign. with scarcely 5000 lily
clad aud poorl y ted men moving to-
wards tn. Dtlcwar-. pursued kv
Howe. The enemies fore. : number
cd about $4,000 British veterans and
German mercrnaries This was the
darkest hour Of the revolution, Ih.
little aEairs at Trenton and Prince
ton revived the hopes Of th- patri ITS.
Congress cens-d to abuse Washing
ton, and made hun military dictator
for six months. IL the autumn oi
1877, the British defeated Washing
ton at Brandywin ana Germantown,
and entered philadclphi.s, til. capital.
Congress flying before 'hrn, The
gloom that overspr.ad th,. country
was relieved by the captur. of Sir
John Burgoyne's army at Saratoga.
Then cam. the terrible winter a,
Valley Forge, when three tour'hs OF
tie army was unfit for service. The
Conway CubAl." too. was ut work
to supplant Washington Will, tn. he
10 Of the hour, Gen. Gates. The. p..o-
pie clamored and in many districts
tho tories were supreme. Washing,
ton was calumniatr in Congress and
GU, Of it. In $50 Charleston fell
Gates defeated at Camden, and the
South ovcrrun. The black ,rrns.n
Of Arnold occurred, and tn. Temporal
r'ly astounded and unnrrvcd Chief
tain exclaimed to Lafayette, "whon
shall We trns, now !" But tn. ,r,ach-
cry was not consuminat-d, and
Greene. tho Swamp Fox, and the
Game Cock. kept the Britons in
c-aseless vigilance to hold til. Caro-
llnas. In 1881, Earl CORVALLIS IRA.
>crsed the Caroliuas and entered Nir-
g:nia. Green drove the isrl,is', from
Eutaw into Charleston, while Wash
iuston and Rochamb-au out general
ed Clinton, and captured Yorktown.
Who fails to See in this war that
history lis repsasing itself! Is there
no, lesson in the gre;,t for,itule
and perseverance, of Washington tor
our lcaders1 And there is mo,.
remarkable one to our pcopl in the
uudauuted patriotism ot ih-ir anc-s-
tors. The hcrois,n of t(iat }mop!e is
4 warming to tyrants aad opprrssors,
The individual zeal with wn.ch III, IL
suffered and struggled ia those days,
is unparalleled. "Hu,drctls ,f my
men," says Gen. Greene, aIlu ling T."
the battle Of Eutaw. "was as naked
as they We're born
Let US profit by this lesson. 1t
the colonies entered iuto a war OF
such magnitude, with such made