The Washington herald., 1913-02-19

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NO. 80.
The shirt of fight had run high in
WASHINGTON the whole war through.
Even durin; those dismal weeks ~
I716 when affairs looked darkest, and he
had but handful OF men about him As
he all but fed before Howe through New
Jersey. he had spoken. as If in the Very
pleasantly OF daring. Of what lie would
do should things come to the worst with
him. His thought turned to those west
ern fastnesses he kUew so well. where
the highlands of his own State lay. and
he smoke calmly of a desperate venture
thither. Reed he exclaimed, TO one
of his aids, my neck does not feel as
though 1t was made for a halter. We
must retire to Augusta County. in Nir-
ginia. and if overpowered. must pass the
Allegheny mountains.
Faith In III. Army.
|. And when the last movement of the
war came. it was still with the same
feeling that he drew his lines about
Corvallis We may he beaten by the
English he said: lit is the chance OF
war; but there is the army they VIII
never conquer.
The privates are all generals. but not
soldiers" the gallant Montgomery had
cried. in his hot impatience with the
heady militiamen he was hidden COM
mand: 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, fearing him even when ne
was silent. and retaining their full con-
fidence in him after defeats and dis
grace.
French officers Puzzled.
The singular majesty and poise Of this
revolutionary hero struck the French Of
ficers as infinitely more remarkable than
his mastery in the field and his as
cendcncy in council. They had looked to
find him great in action, but they had
not thought to see in him a great gentle
man, man after their own kind IN
grace and courtesy and tact. and yet SO
lifted above the manner of courts and
drawins-rooms by an incummunicable
quality of grave sincerity which they
were at loss how to describe.
No one could tell whether it were a
gift of the mind or of the neart. 1t was
certain only that it constituted the at
mosphere and apotheosis of the man.
The Marquis de ChastelluX noted. with a
sort of reverent awe for this hero not
vet turned of fifty. how perfect a union
reigned between his physical and moral
qualities. zone alone" he declared, will
enable you to judge of all the rest.
TT is not my intention to exaggerate.
he said; 'T wish only to express my i'm
preston of a perfect whole, which can
not be the product of enthusiasm, since
the effect of proportion is rather to di-
minish the idea of greatness.
Change In waahingtOn's Looks.
Strangers who had noted his appear
ance in the earlier years of the war had
remarked the spirit and life that sat In
washington's eyes; but when the wal
was over, and its strain relaxed. they
found those eyes grown pensive. more
attentive than sparkling" steady still
and noble in their frankness and good
feeling, but touched a little with care,
dimmed with watching.
The Prince de Broglie found him "still
as fresh and active as a young man In
I7s2, but thought che must 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 campaignef
though he was. This Is the seventh
year that he has commanded the army
and that he has obeyed the Congress-