Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1913-04-10

I'd him a brave braggart" for his
rodomontade about the music Of dead
ly missiles.
He had no thought. however. OF
quitting his duty because MS first
campaign had miscarried.
When he had made his report at
Williamsburg he rejoined bis demon
allied regiment at Alexandria. where
Il lay but an hours ride from Mount
Vernon, and set about executing his
orders to recruit once more. as If the
business were only just begun.
Build Fort Cumberland.
Captain Innes. who had brought
three hundred and fifty men from
North Carolina too late to be OF as
sistanee at the Meadows. and who had
lad the chagrin OF seeing them take
themselves or home again because
there was no money forthcoming &c
pay them what had been promised
remained at Wits Creek, amidst the
back settlements, 10 command the
kings provincials from South Caro-
INA who had been with Washington
at the Meadows, and the two indepen
dent companies from New York, who
had fingered SC long on the way; and
TO build there a rough fertilization
10 be named Fort Cumberland, In
honor OF the far-away Duke who wal
eommander-in-chief in England.
Dinwiddie. having such hot Scots
blood in him as could brook no de
lays. and having been bred no soldier
or frontiersman, but a merchant and
man of business, would have had
Washington's recruiting dispatches
at once. like a bill Of goods. and &
new force sent hot-foot to the ohit
again TO catch the French while the,
we're at ease over their victory anc
slackly upon their guard at Duquesne
Dinwiddle Blunders Again.
When he was fatty told it was i'm
possible, he turned to other plans
equally i'll considered, though ne
doubt equally well meant. BY Octc
Der he had obtained Of the assembl.
twenty thousand pounds, and from
the government at home ten Thousand
more in good specie, such as wa
scarce in the colony-for the sharl
stir OF actual fighting had had its Ell
feet alike upon king and burgesses-
and had ordered the formation ant
equipment OF ten full companies 70
! the frontier.
But the new orders contained sat
civilian blunder. The ten companie,
-h.o,,rd al be indapapdapf couapapfaS
there should be no officer higher thar
captain amongst them. This. the
good Scotsman thought, would accom-
{ modate all disputes about rank ant
precedence, such as had come neal
! to making trouble between Washing
ton and Captain Mackay, of the inde
pendent company from South Care
lima, while they waited for the French
at Great Meadows.
/ Washington at once resigned in
dignant to be SO dealt with. Not
only would he be reduced to {
captaincy under such an arrangement
but every petty officer would outranE
him who could show the kings com
mission.
1t was no tradition of his class tC
submit to degradation Of rank thu:
BY indirection and without fault com
mitted. and HIS pride and sense CO per
sonal dignity, for all he was SO young
we're as high-strung as any mans II
Virginia.
He had shown his quality in sucl
matters already, six months ago
while he lay in camp in the wilder
ness on his way towards the Ohio
The burgesses had appointed a com
imittee Of their own to spend thu
money they had voted to put his sx
petition afoot in the spring, lest Din
widdie should think, were they to Civ
him the spending of it, that they hat
reIented in the matter of the fees
and these gentlemen, in their careful
parsimony, had cut the officers OF tn
already straitened little force down {,
such pay and food as Washington
iesmed unworthy of a gentleman's &C
ceptance.
A Volunteer Without Pay.
He would not resign his commits
sion there at the head of his mel
upon the march, but he asked to b
considered a volunteer without pay
that he might be quit Of the humilis
tion Of being stinted like a beggar.
Now that it was autumn, however
and wars stood still, he could resig
without reproach, and he did 80 YER
promptly, in spite Of protests an
+ earnest solicitations from many qua
!, tiers. Il am concerned to find Colon
WashingtonEs conduct so imprudent
=. wrote Thomas Penn. But the hig
4 spirited young officer deemed il I
. imprudence to insist upon a just co
, alteration OF his rank and service
and quietly withdrew to Mount We
!. non, to go thence to his mother
t. the ferry farm" upon the Rappaha
I mock, and see again all the fields ar
: friends he loved 50 well.
A Brief Respite.
II was a very brief respite.
He had been scarcely five month
. out OF harness when he found himse
again In camp, his plans and hops
z once more turned towards the n
Z wilderness where the French lay.