Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1913-05-04

could not deem MN Solcs lhOueh my
found him self possessed. keeping his
own counsel. for was not the country
fun of talk how passionately he was
ike 10 act at a moment Of crisis and
in the field?
A Fearless Leader.
They only feared 10 lose leader
so reckless OF himself when danger
was sharpest. Our army love their
general very much, one OF his officers
mad said. but they have one thing
against him, which is the little care
he takes OF himself in any action;
for he had seen how Washington
dressed at Trenton and at Princeton 70
the points that were most exposed,
thinking Of his troops, not Of him.
self.
The spirit OF fight had run high in
Washington the whole war through.
Even during those dismal weeks OF
I7Te. wiISS affairs looked darkest; ard
he had but ~ handful OF men about
MIN as he all but fed before Howe
through New jersey, he had spoken,
as If in the very pleasantly OF daring.
of what he wound do should things
come to the worst with him. His
thought turned to those western fast
nesses he knew so well, where the
highlands OF his own state lay, and ne
spoke calmly OF a desperate venture
thither Reed" he exclaimed, to one
OF his aides, my neck does not feel
as though it was made for a halter.
We must retire 20 Augusta county, in
Virginia, and IL overpowered. must
pass the Allegheny mountains"
Faith in His Army.
And when the last movement OF the
war came. it was still with the same
feeling that ne drew his lines about
CORVALLIS. I'VE may be beaten by
the English" he said; lit is the
chance of war; but there is the army
they will never conquer"
The priyates are all generals. but
not soldiers" the gallant Montgomery
had cried, in his hot Impotence with
the heady militiamen he was hidden
command; but it was not SO in the
presence Of Washington. when once
these men had taken his measure.
They were then rivals in praising
him. the Able Robin declared, fear
ing him even when be was silent. and
retaining their full confidence in him
after defeats and disgrace.
French Officers Puzzled.
The singular majesty and poise OF
this revolutionary hero struck the
French officers as infinitely more re-
markable than his mastery in the
field and his aseendency in council.
They had looked to find him great in
action, but they had not tlTolght to
see in him q great gentleman, a man
after their own kind in grace and
courtesy and tact. and yet so lifted
above the manner Of courts and draw
I ing-rooms by an incommunicable quail
| ity of grave sincerity which they were
at a loss how to describe.
No one could tell whether il were
4 gift OF the mind or OF the heart It
I was certainly only that it constituted
I the atmosphere and apotheosis OF the
man. The Marquis de ChGstsllux not
I ed, with a sort of reverent awe for
| this hero not yet turned OF fifty, how
I perfect a union reigned between his
/ physical and moral qualities. "One
I alone" he declared, will enable you
| to judge OF all the rest" 1T is not
/ my intention to exaggerate," he said;
/ Il wish only TO express my impress
sion Of perfect whole, which cannot
be the product Of enthusiasm, since
/ the effect OF proportion is rather to
( diminish the idea Of greatness"
Change In Wsshineton's Looks.
Strangers who had noted his ap-
pearance in the earlier years Of the
war had remarked the spirit and life
that sat in Washington's eyes; but
when the war was over. and it's strain
relaxed. they found those eyes grown
| pensiye. more attentive than spark.
ling; steady still, and noble in their
frankness and good feeling, but
touched little with care. dimmed with
watching
The Prince de Broglie found him
"still as fresh and active as a young
man" in 1882, but thought he mus;
have been much handsomer three
years ago." for "the gentlemen who
had remained with him during all that
time said that he seemed to have
grown much older.
'TwoUld have been no marvel had
he broken under the burden he had
carried, athletic soldier and hardened
campaigner though he was. This is
the seventh year that be has com
manded the army and that he has
obeyed the congress; more need mol
be said" the Marquis de Chastellu5
declared. uneonsciously uttering a
very bitter gibe against the govern
ment. when he meant only to praise
its general.
Letters for All.
Such service told the more heavily
upon Washington because he had rem
dered IL in silence.
No man among all the Revolution
airy leaders, il is true, had been more
at the desk than he. Letters of com
mand and persuasion, reports that
carried every detail of the army's life
AID hopes in their careful phrases
orders OF urgency and OF provident ar
4 rzngement, writings Of any and ever
sort that might keep the hard wal