Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-02-05

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| of which Should proceed up the PATIO
| mac and take post at Alexandria. the
| other half up Chesapeak Bay and pos.
| SeSS themselves of Annapolis. They
will most probably meet with no op-
| position in taking these Posts, and
| when possessed they are so very strong
| by nature that few hours work and
some trltling artillery will secure them
against the attacks of much create.
force than can possibly be brought
down against them-their communicn-
tlon with the shipping will be constant
and sure-for at Alexandria Vessels OF
a very considerable burthen (of five or
six hundred Tons for lnStance) can
lie in close to the shore. and at An
napolis within muSket Shot-all the
necessaries and refreshments for an
Army are near at hand, and in great
abundance-kent Island will supply
that of Annapolis and every part of
both banks of the Patomac that OF
Alexandria These Posts may with
ease support each other. as 1t is but
two easy days march from one to the
other, and If occasion requires by a
simple days march, They may join (a)
and conjunctly carry on their opera
tionS wherever it shall be thought elig
ible to direct EN-; whether to take pos
session of Baltimore or post themselves
on some spot on the Westward bank of
the SuSquehanna which is q point of
the utmost importance-but here 1
must beg leave, to observe that there
IS n measure which if the General as
sents to and adopts will be attended
with momentouS and most happy con-
sequences-I mean that from these
Posts proclamatlons of pardon should
be Issued to all those who come in at n
given day, and 1 viii answer for it with
my life-that all the Inhabitants OF
that great tract southwark of the Pa
tapSico and lying betwlXt the Patomao
and Chesapeake Bay and those on the
eastern Shore of Maryland will immc-
diately lay down their arms-but this
is not all. l am much mistaken IL
those potent and populous German dis
trctS, Frederic County in Maryland
and York in Pennsylvania do not follow
their examplc-TheSe Germans are eX-
tremely numerous, and TO a Man have
hitherto been the most Staunch AS
SerterS of the American cause: but al
the same time are SO remarkably tenas
clouS of their property and apprehens
sive of the least Injury being done 20
their fine farms that l have no doubt
when They see a probability OF their
Country becoming the scat of War
They will give up all opposition but IL
contrary to expectations a force should
be assembled at Alexandria sufficient
to prevent the Corps detach d thither
from taking possession Immediately Of
the place. 1t will make no dsadvanta-
geous alteration, but rather the re-
vcrSe-n variety of spots near Alexan-
dria on either bank of the Patomac
may be chosen for Posts equally well
calculated for all the great purposes |
have mention d-viz-for the reduction
or compulsion TO submission of The
whole Province of Maryland for the
nj 1af
from sending aids to Pensylvanio-for
in fact II any force is assembled az
Alexandria sufficient to oppose the
Troops sent against 1t, 1t must be at
the eNpence of the moro Northern
Army as they must be compos'd OF
those Troops which were otherwise
destind for Pennslyvania-to saw all I'm
word, 1t will unhinge and dissolve the
whole system of defence ] am so con-
fident of the event that I will venture
to assert with the penalty OF my life If
the plan is fully adopted. and no ac-
cidents (such as a rupture betwiXt the
Powers of Europe) lntervenes that in
less than two months from the date
of the proclamation not spark of this
desolatlng war remains uneXtInguishcd
in any part OF the Continent.
ta) On the Road from Annapolis to
Queen Ann there Is one considerable
River to be paSs'd. but as the ships
boats can easily be brought round from
the Bay to the usual place of passage
OF Ferry, this is no impcdiment if the
Two Corps chusc to unite They may
by a single days march either at Queen
AIMS or Marlborough.
L OF nearly century and a half the
name OF Benedict Arnold has been
n synonym for the foulcst form of
treason Bad as was Arnold, he WAS
not so bad as Gen. Charles Lee, senior
major general of the Continental army
and second in command to Washing
ton Lee and not Arnold. was the arch
traitor OF the Revolution. Lees trea-
son was not discovered until nearly 10
years after he was dead. The finding
among the old papers of the British
wa office the documents disclosing his
treason came so late that they never
have received the attention from his
torians they would have commanded
had they come to light In the early
days OF the nation. Before they came
to light public opinion regarding the
various characters in the great reVolu-
tionary drama had formed Lee was
viewed as n vain, jealous. bitter man
whose appointment to such high COM
mand in the Continental army was
Il mistake and whose conduct at the
battle OF Monmouth was dissraceful.
There was suspicion too, regarding
his devotion to the cause of the strug-
Cling patriots, but that was about as
far II went. Possibly historians
would have been more eager to ascer-
tain everything they could In relation
to him had he been American born
But Lees crime was a more sinister
and more shocking ono than Arnold's,