Smyrna times., 1889-05-01
Remember Robert Morris.

Inc darkest days Of the ravoI,.io.
We're when Washington had bis arrO,
10 winter quarters at Valley r. - )
60 tne ehdlng OF an Unsuccessful
P"'Su Jne previous year The
I'm 9l.llueF-ln-chlef's officers were in
IIuooruihate, bis men were desertino,
us OGsC friends seemed to be Iosin97r'
oCCnhlehce ~ u IN him, and the great snirit
iIt VI tne great Washington came nearer
4ua,Ilhg than it ever had done in al
Cne troubles that had again and aoai,,.
oppressed him. " again
IN me financial of the embryo povenr.
Iehc were IN deplorable condition
Ialrlotlsm can be no more run vvifboiIt
mo money than the banking business con
n nc soldiers were freezing at VaIIo,,
roTge and their wives and cbiIdroy
T' TeIe suffering and famishing m boma
"o pay OF the army was MANY montbe
~ arrears. t5i. Washington had no mon
Sy' Inc congress had no money Tba
states had no money. The outlool-
was gloomy, and Washington saw II
appreciated it and grived tbat ~ |
army would disband for the neod ~ |
money ~ and that the attempt Of ~
Drltlsh colonies in America tn booa,-'o
Tree and independent and ~ fnn,,d Totne
republic on the basis of the dooIamI,,il'"' ~ I"
OF independence, was abont to and @I'Gii ;ii
failure. 0"' ~ emu III
r,dIi ln TINS emergency Robert Norris
merchant OF Philadelphia. stepped for.
"aIu with the material aid his monay
anu credit afforded, and saved tbe
pdsFlot cause. Without his financial
t.u, furnished without stint. TO the
unit OF an almost unb0unded credit
is almost certain the army wonI6 :
i"SG oeeh dlsbanded. At one time ha {
'''u MS own notes outstanding to the
mount u Of Sl,500,00O for money 10 nav !
he army. ~ pay !
us great man managed the fnan- :
la ahalrs of the struggling colonies :
u years; when Washington was form,
~ ms cabinet he offered Robert Nor Il
- UHo posi- or secretary of the treas +,
~ "uIch ne declined, asking Wash. Il
Isto4 TO appoint Alexander Hamilton a,
II, MOTIFS was one of the first two IT -,
. senators from Pennsylvania. r
ana yet In his old age. when busi-
7ss feVerses overlook him an nm
'atelul and forgetful country snfFared
'isOn ueoIOrs
We refer to these things now he. la
Use u q, "nlie' very properly, the name e
~ the tame and the praise of Woeb- he
Ston, the father of his country - arc m
eVerybody's lips. Robert Morris he
no saved Washington's military on ne
aIions from failure by furnisbing M
N with the sinews of war. sbonid nn97 tn
IorSotten and in the coming cen cr'
IuIal ceremonies much notice should de
taken of his memory. at
IL IS with peculiar fitness that tho th'
iryIahd commissioners can hrinT WI
; matter forward. because tbe9 ed
neT OF Robert Morris was a MARY lns
IA IA business man aud his bones rest SIN
maryland soil. Robert Morris. Sr COZ
lather of the inancier of the re,,o' I3e
ION, was large importing mar. era
INT at Oxford, Talbot county and shl
grave and tombstone are in Whit del
rsn church yard, near the village of ne
u imoleton: His will is amongst the eve
records of Talbot county. His wit
iIe was left to his son Robert. then raft
VI OF fourteen, at school in PbiIa- ano
phla and an ancestor of one of the pie
IyIahd commissioners, Tench Thigh ger
u Il was was a business partner of Morris, tax
Philadelphia. -''0i 'i' secC
, monument, as tall as anv the mis-
III contains, should be built to the VINO
nory OF Robert Morris.-Easton an
ger. 11''0'O" vess