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

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dependence is q history of hopes
deceived, said Washington. Wash
ington was condemned to inaction.
Our position is not sufficiently
brilliant, he wrote TO Nj. de La
Fayette, to Justify our putting
pressure upon Count de Rocham-
beau; / shall continue our arrange
ments, however, in the hope of
more fortunate circumstances.
The American army was slow in
getting organized, obliged, as it
had been, to fight necessarily and
make head against constantly re-
curing difficulties; it was getting
organized, however; the example
of the French, the discipline which
prevailed in the auxiliary corps,
the good understanding thence
forth established among the
officers, helped Washington in his
difficult task. From the first the
superiority of the general (Wasl =
ingtOn) was admitted by the
French as we'll as by the Amer
leans; naturally, and by the mere
fact of the gifts he had received
from God, Washington was always
and everywhere chief of the men
placed within his range and under
his influence. "
THE Kings soldiers are to be
placed exclusively under the orders
of the General-in-Chief, M. Girard,
the French Minister in America,
bad said, on the arrival of the
auxiliary corps"
Two things, great and difficult
as they may be, are a mans duty
and may establish his fame. To
support misfortune and be sturdily
resigned to it; to believe In the
good and trust in it perseveringly. F"
This was Washington.
IF ever cause were just and had
right to success. it was of the
English Colonies which rose in in
surrection to become the United
States of America. Opposition,
in their case, preceded insurrec-
tion. Their opposition was
f funded on historic right and on
facts, on rational right and on
ideas. 1t was in the war between
England and France, for the pos
session of Canada, that the Amer
leans made the first trial of their
strength. There is a sight as fine
and not less salutary than that OF
q virtuous man at grips with ad-
versity (Washington); it is the
sight of a virtuous man at the
head of a good cause and securing
it's triumph. Washington al
Yorktown.
Winter of 1777-Army in win.
ter quarters at Valley Forge-At
this time a party was formed in
Congress to remove the command
er-in-chief. Whilst these COM
binations of intrigue and ambition
were progressing, the sufferings OF
the army were not ameliorated,
and they at length drew from the
commander Washington a COM
munication to Congress of unpre-
cedented plainness and energy.
He Washington stated his con-
viction that unless some great
change took place in the commits
sary's department, the army would
inevitably be reduced to starvation
or dissolution; that there was not
in the camp a single head of cattle
to be slaughtered, and not more
than twenty-five barrels of -four,
nor could the commissary tell
when any might be expected; and,
that three or four days of bad
weather would prove their destruc-
ton; that there were near 1900
men in camp unfit for duty, be-
cause they were barefooted and
otherwise naked, besides those
confined in the hospitals and in
farm houses on the same account.
He charged it home to those who
had demonstrated against his
going into winter quarters, that
they knew the nakedness of the
troops from ocular demonstra-
tion. l can assure those gentle
men, said he, that it is much easier
and less distressing to draw
in a comfortable
room, by a good Preside, than to
occupy cold, bleak hill, and sleep
under frost and snow withol t