The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-03-14

81 a this happy stroke
q did not little ID
- keep the enemy
from Morristown at
q time when the American army was
IN no condition to receive them II
Nas in this Arnold Tavern thar
Washington wrote those noble letters
to General Howe, the Brisish COM
mander, denouncing the inhuman
treatment which patriot officers ana
men who were unhappy enough 10 fall
into their hands. received on board
the prison ship in the harbor of New
York. And he said did not the writer
endeavor to obtain redress, of their
grievances, he would think himself
as cuipable as those who infiiot such
severities upon them. 3 Their suffer-
ings were really dreadful one Of the
prisoners on the ship wrote as fol-
lows: : The distress Of the prisoners.
cannot be communicated BY words.
Twenty or thirty Of them die every
day They lie in heaps unburied what
numbers OF my country mem by cold
and hunger, perished for want of.tba
common necessaries Of life sbava
seen it. This is the boasted British
olemency. Rather than again expert
ence their barbarity, may fall by
the sword Of the Hessians Il, rha
sufferings of these men reraivaa H;
immediate attention after his arrival
in Morristown. MANY other vvefgbfv.
matters were pressing on the heart
and mind of the patriot Commandar.
during that memorial vvintar most 81
them discouraging and dishearten;nr
Very little sunlight penetrata,i ;nto
that building and reached him 81 he
brooded over the periis chat surrnnnd.
ed him; yet he never besitatad ha
never quailed, seldom. very seldom
did he feel disposed to write anconr.
agingIy. More frequently was e, com.
PEELED to complain. as he did IN the
26th of January: Reinforcaments ),
he said, "come in SO extrernalv slow
that am afraid that shall ba lefr
without any men, before thew arrive.
The enemy must be ignorant of onr
numbers or they have not horsea t.
move their artillery, or they wonld NOT
suffer us to remain undistnrbsd 4,
Gordon, the English historian. writas
as follows: "By the time that ma
rebels arrived at Morristown. thev
were so extremely fatipued that 4
fresh and resoIute body Of 500 men
might have demolished the whole
army. Numbers laid down IN the
woods, and fell asleep without regard
ing the GOODNESS of the weather Az
this time the Royal army ia New
Jersey consisted Of at l5ast 10. 600 men
And this fatigued ana worn ont army
of Washington, consisting Of less than
1000 men at the time when they
reached Morristown, was the only
army that Congress then had. And
yet no attempts were made to beat
up their quarters, disperse them ana
put an end to the rebellion. y Gordon
did not know of what stuff the
American army was made. While liy-
ing in the Arnold Tavern, Washington
was visited by most Of the Generals
of his army. Hither came Generals
Sullivan and Lee, Z. Old Putt as Israel
Putnam was familiarly called, came
also; Generals Wayne and Maxwell,
here met the oommander.in-c chief and
talked over the battle of Trenton and
Princeton, from which Washington
had come directly to Morristown, and
discussed that fearful march truth
fully named the Mud March. Here
were assembled those foreign officers.
whose love of liberty had impelled
them to offer themselves for service
in the patriotic army, such as the
Marquis de LAFAYETTE, Baron steuben.
Count Pulaski. and the Chevalier