The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1900-11-03


combat on the approach of evening
as by mutual consent Washing
ton, wrapped in his cloak, lay that
night on the field in the midst of
his soldiers, ready to renew the
battle in the morning; but the
enemy, under cover of the night,
retired in silence, leaving two
hundred and forty-nine of their
dead on the field. The British
army embarked at Sandy Hook,
and sailed to New York, and the
Americans once more took a posi-
ton on the banks of the Hudson. y
THE pernicious divisions and
factions in Congress (Kentucky
Legislature past few years. were
fomented and increased until the
prospect of happy issue appeared
to the chief more gloomy than at
any former period. / have seen
without dependence even for
moment, the hours which America
has styled her gloomy ones; but l
have beheld no day since the COM
mencement of hostilities, when
have thought her liberties i'm such
danger as at present. { How about
Kentucky's liberties at the pres
ENTITY Friends and foes seem now
to combine to pull down the
goodly fabric we have hitherto
been raising at the expense of so
much time, blood and treasure
chow true in Kentucky to-day);
and unless the bodies polite (the
people) will exert themselves to
bring things back to first prin-
ciples, correct abuses, and punish
our internal foes, inevitable ruin
must follow. Indeed. we seem to
be hr frying so fast to destruction,
that [ am filled with sensations,
to which | have been a stranger
until these three months. Our
enemies behold with exultation
and Joy, how effectually we labor
for their benefit; and from being
in a state of absolute despair, and
on the point of evacuating Amer
lea, are now on tiptoe."
Washington, after providing
for the defense of the posts on the
Hudson, led his army down the
+ west side of that river, so as TO
mask his intention by exciting
apprehensions for Staten Island,
and it was not until he had passed
the Delaware, that his real object
was suspected by the British COM
mander. "
Lord CORVALLIS threw himself
into Yorktown; on the Both of
September the place was invested.
All defense became impossible.
Lord CORVALLIS in vain attempted
to escape; he was reduced, on the
18th of October, to signing a Ca
pitulation more humiliating than
that of Saratoga-8,000 men laid
down their arms. Lord Cornwall
lis was i'll of grief and fatigue.
Gen. O'Hara, who took his place,
rendered his sword to Count de
Rochambeau; the latter stepped
back, and pointing to General
Washington, said aloud, L am
only auxiliary. In receiving the
English generals sword, Washing
: ton was receiving the pledge of his
cOuntry's independence.
Washington, who led the army
of independence, whose great heart
resisted the appalling adversities
of the revolution, who stood upon
the banks of the Delaware and
above the roar of the elements,
heard the call of patriotic duty,
who led his little column to the
mouth of the cannon at Trenton;
who led the feeble colonies, like
Moses at the head of the tribes in
the wilderness, but who, more
favored than the great captain of
Israel, was permitted from the
] plains of Yorktown to enter into
full possession of liberty; who
stands now and will stand forever
as sublime and unapproachable
example of virtue and love of
country"
1.-The drama of the revolution
closed within her border (Vir-
ginia's borders). The spirit of
American liberty here first took
assurance of safety, and a perma-
nent existence.
Kentucky is Virginia's first