The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-06-07

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said their departure.
BY the 17th they were all embarked,
eight thousand troops and nine hun
dred loyalist citizens Of Boston, and
had set sail towards the north: for Hal.
ifax. They were obliged to leave be-
AAnd them more than two hundred can
non ana q great quantity OF military
stores Of every kind-powder, mus.
lets, gun.carrlages, small-arms-whate
sver an army might need.
When Washington established him
,elf in General Howe's headquarters,
n Mrs.. Edwards comfortable lodging
house at the head Of State street, he
could congratulate himself not only on
surprising victory brilliantly won,
tut on the possession, besides, Of more
powder and better stores and equip
nents than he could have dreamed OF
n his camp at Cambridge. ~.
He caught up his: landlady's little
granddaughter one day, set her: on
his knee, as he liked to do, and asked
ier, smiling, which she liked the bet
:er, the redcoats or the provincials.
1.-The redcoats," said tho child.
"Ah, my DEAR" said the young gen.
sral, a blithe light In his blue eyes,
they look better, but they don't fight.
The ragged fellows are the boys for
lighting" =.
Warrington Leaves Boston.
But he did not Nnger at Boston.
He knew that it's capture did not
end, but only deepened, the struggle.
achievements would be poured out
II England with the spring, and the
aext point OF attack would unques.
ionably be New York, the key to the
Hudson
Here again was q city fanked about
IN either hand by water, and COM
handed by heights-the heights Of
Brooklyn. A garrison must be left in
Boston, and New York must be held
Tor the most part by q new levy, as
Jaw, as i'll organized and equipped, as
tactious, as uncertain In capacity and
purpose, as that which had awaited
his discipline and guidance before
Boston. @" -:
An Everchanqlng Army.
It was an army always a-making
Ind to be made. ..-
The sea was open, moreover. The
British could enter the great harbor
when they pleased. ...
The insurgents had no naval force
whatever with which to withstand
them on the water. There we're 4
score Of points to be- defended which
were yet without defence on the long
island where the town lay. and round:
about the spreading arms Of the sea
that enclosed it; and there were but
eighteen thousand militia-mea~ mus
tered for the formidable task, in tho
midst Of an active loyalist popuIar
ton. ~
The thing must be attempted, never
theless. -
Vital to Hold the Hudson.
The command of the Hudson would
very likely turn out to be the COM
mand of the continent, and the strug-
gle was now to be to the death.
It was too late to draw back.
The royal authority had, in fact,
been everywhere openly thrown OH,
even In the middle colonies, where al
legiance and opinion hung still at 20
doubtful balance.
For Washington the whole situation
must have seemed to be summed up
In what had taken place in his own
colony at homo. -.
Dunn,ore Raids and Destroys.
Dunmore, when he fed to the men
of-war in the bay, had called upon all
who were loyal to follow him; had
even offered freedom to all slaves
and servants who would enlist in the
force he should collect for the purpose
Of reducing the colony. to a proper
sense Of its duty" Unable to do more,
he had ravaged the coasts on either
hand upon the bay, and had put men
ashore within the rivers to raid and
burn, making Norfolk, with it's loyal
list merchants, his headquarters and
rendezvous. 49,.
Driven thence by the provincial
militia, he had utterly destroyed the
town by fire, and was now refuged
upon Gwynn's Island, striking when
he could, as before, at the unprotected
hamlets and plantations that looked
everywhere out upon: the water. -:
Wrginia's only executive, these nine
months and more, had been her COM
mittee Of safety, Of which Edmund
Pendleton was president. G.. = e ~-~
Carolina Declares dependence.
Washington had hardly begun his
work OF organization and defence at
New York before North Carolina
(April IL, 1776) authorised her dele
gates in the congress at Philadelphia
TO join in a declaration of independ-
ence; and the next month (May 15)
the congress advised the colonies to
give over all show and pretence Of
waiting for or desiring peace or &C
commodation; to form complete and
independent governments Of their own,
and SO put an end to "the exercise Of
every kind Of authority under the
crown" ......-. ~>,. s#s:s.=ss- 8 T..t% J
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