Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-05
Relieved of Command of the
Army of the North Shortly Before
the Battle of Saratoga Through
the Scheming of Gates. Who Got
All the Credit for the Surrender
of Buraoyr1e Although He De-
served None. * * *

rebel and had been killed in rebellion
against his king.
This brought from Edmund Burke g
response such as the house or parma
meDt rarely had heard;
1T i'll BELTS his lordship to use the
term rebel. he declared. But for reb.
be king Of England today. Cromwell
was a rebel. Every step in England's
advancement was the result OF rebel
lion. To rebels are due the great pros.
we would be slaves. If Richard Mont
gomery was rebel he was in illus
triouS company, and ]. for one: an
proud of the privilege of paying tribute
liberty.
The retreat from Quebec was bitter
enough, but to its bitterness were ADO.
1t was but fragment OF the army thai
Montgomery had taken north that re-
turned to Crown Point and T1conderoga
were in the wake of the Continentals
and after only semblance of a de-
Tense Crown Point was abandoned
Carleton might have captured Ticon-
postpone that work to later day.
In the gloom that settled upon the
country as a result of the Quebec disas-
ter it was natural perhaps that Schuyler
came in for much blame. The men who
had gone with Montgomery we're mostly
New Englanders. They had no love Tor
Schuyler. He was a New Yorker. lie
had been one of New 1ork's COMMISSION
ers for the settlement Of the boundary
dispute between New York and New
England New York had claimed all the
territory to the Connecticut river, but
had compromised on a line twenty miles
east OF the Hudson. That line prevailed.
however. only to the northern limits or
MaSsac huSettS.
New York claimed all the territory now
embraced by the state of Vermont. There
was intense jealousy between the COLO
MES New York did not have the pre-
ponderance in population then that 1t has
now OF the thirteen colonies 1t stood
seventh in point of population. Virginia
was first New York was the richest
colony. but it had the largest proportion
of tories, and New England resented the
mand the Army of the North. composed
mostly of New England men. Added
to this colonial jealousy was the racial
one The New Englanders were of
English extraction, and they scof1ed at
the idea of serving under a man Of Dutch
blood.
A queer force indeed was the Cont
mental army of that early day. Later.
after many mistakes and hardshIps, IT
was to be drilled by Steuben into one
OF the HiicSl iSieiAS poui"e VI Ni'O oAAN,
but it was fractions. mutinous crew at
first Unframed and unwilling to accept
discipline. it had its own ideas Of action.
Each militia body worked independently.
For the routine of camp and the mo-
notony of drill it had no love. 1t would
enlist for a short period, and then, re-
gardless of the stage Of the campaign.
insist when its time was up on its right
to return home.
The soldier had his fields to cultivate,
his crops to gather and his family to
provide for. When Congress, in its pow
erty failed to supply equipment. there
was rebellion and disorder. The men
We're willing enough to fight, but they
chafed at delay. They wanted the fight
to be ready for them when they were