Morris tribune., 1905-04-08


S5g upon which he had engaged
passage and which had actually re
ceiyed his baggage sailed without him
IT would be some days before he woult
grace the court Of st. James with hi
handsome person. and q long time
would eiaDse before he would once
more rejoice in the sight OF his lie
loved hills. When he next returned j
would not be with the laureIs Of s
conQueror either! He was to try con
illusions once and again with the gen
tleman he had 50 assiduously pursued
through the Jerseys. and this time
aye. and in the end, toO-the honors
We're TO be with his antagonist. The
star and order Of the Bath, which his
gracious and generous Britannia ma
jesty had sent over to the new Caesar,
General Howe, with so much lauda-
ton and so many words of congratulate
ton, was to have d little Of it's luster
diminished and was destined to ap-
pear not quite so glorious as it had
after Long Island; in fact is was soon
TO be seen that it was only a pyro-
teclnic star after all. and not in the
order of heaven Both of these gentle
men We're to learn that an army-al-
most any kind Of an army-is always
dangerous until it is wiped out, and it
is not to be considered as wiped out as
long as it has any coherent existence
at all. even if the coherent existence
only depends upon the iron will of one
man-Which is another way of saying
the game Is never won until it is ended.
There was mounting in hot haste in
New York. and couriers and orders
Streamed over the frozen roads, and
Lord CORVALLIS himself galloped at
full speed for Princeton. The calcu-
latiOnS of a certain number of his maj
;esty's faithful troops were to be rude
ily disturbed and the comfortable quar-
tiers in which they had ensc0nced them
selves were to be vacated forthwith.
Concentration, aggregation. synthesis,
were the words, and this time the reas-
Sembied army was not to disintegrate
into winter quarters until this pestilent
Mr.. Washington was attended to, and
attended to so effectually that they
could enjoy the enforced hospitality
of the surly but substantial Jerseymen
through the long winter nights undis-
Rurbed.
For his part, Mr.. Washington, having
tasted success, the first real brilliant
offensive success of the campaign was
quite willing to be attended to. In
fact, in a manner which in another sex
might be called coquettish, he seemed
to court attention. Having successful |
ly attacked with his frostbitten, ragged |
regiments a detachment, he was now
to demonstrate to the world that not |
even the presence of an army could |
estop him.
Things were not quiet on the Penn.
Sylvania side Of the river either; there !
were such comings and goings in New
town as that staid and conservative |
village had never before seen. Our
two friends. the sad hearted, were both
busily employed. Talbot had galloped
over the familiar road and had electri-
fled the good people Of Philadelphia
with his news and then had FASTENED on
TO Baltimore to reasSUre the spirits Of
the frightened congress. Honest Robert
Morris was trOtting around from door
to door upon New Years morning. hat
in hand, begging for dollars to assist
his friend George Washington and the
cause of liberty and the suffering
army; and Seymour, become as it were
a soldier. and with Philip for esquire,
was waiting to take what he could
get, be the amount ever so little back
to General Washington. The sailor
had been granted further leave Of alb
Sence by the naval committee at the
generals urgent request. and was GLAD
TO learn that he should soon have
command OF the promised ship of war
(which was even then making ready in
the Delaware Honest Bentley-be-
loved Of the sOldiery in spite of his
genuinely expressed contempt for land
warri0rs-was lending what aid he
could i'll keeping up the spirits of the
saen and III other material ways in
the camp. Some of the clothing, some
Of the guns from the MelIish. some Of
the material captured from the Hes
slams had gone into the hands and ove,
the backs and upon tie feet of the
men. But the clothed and the naked
were equally happy, for had they not
done something at last? Aye! They had
given assurance that they were men
to be reckoned with
Fired by the example set them by :.
The COntinentals, the PENNSYLVANIA .
militia, under Cadwalader and Ewing !.
and Mif1in, had at last crossed the :
Delaware and Joined Griffin's men, ;
Washington had followed them, and :
he 10Th Of December found him estab- .
ished in new headquarters at Tren- .
on. A number of mounds in the fields ,
,Overed with snow, some bitter recol- :
ectiOns and sad stories Of plumber, :
oisbery, rapine and worse. told with
,nas1aing teeth or breaking heart by !
he firesideS, were all that remained ,
Z their strange antagonists in the !
swn. But the little town and the .
tile valley were to be once more the .
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