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


himself-so frank and yet so reserved,
so STRAIGHTFORWARD and simple and yet
SO proud and self-eontained, revealing
powers. but somehow not revealing
himself
Il must have seemed at times TO
those who followed him and pondered
what they saw that he had caught
from nature her own manner while he
took his breeding as a boy and his
preparation as a man amidst the for
ests of a wild frontier; that his char
acter spoke in what he did and with.
OUT self consciousness; that he had
no moods but those of action
A Mar Without Reproseh.
Nor did men know him for what
he really was until tbs war was over
His own officers then found theJ
had something more 20 learn Of the
man they had fought under for slx
years-and those six. all of them.
such as lay bare the characters OF
men
What remained 10 be done during
the two trying. anxious years, 1882
and 1888, seemed as II intended for a
supreme and final test OF the quail
ties of the man whose genius and
character had made the Revolution
possible. AT the end OF a long civil
war" said the Marquis de Chastellux
with a noble pride fer his friend. "he
had nothing With which he could re
preach himself'' but it was these lsst
years which were to crown this per
feet praise with it's fun meaning.
In the absence of any real govern
ment, Washington proved almost the
only prop OF authority and law. Wha
the crisis was no one knew quite st
thoroughly or so particularly as he
1t consisted in the ominous fact tina
the army was the only organized aut
central power in the country, and thu
it had deep reason for discomfort ant
INSTRUMENTATION.
When once it had served its puI
post greatly at Yorktown, and the wa
seemed ended at a stroke, the eountr.
turned from it in indifference-left /
without money: talked % disbanding
il without further ceremony, and with
no provision made for arrears OF pay:
seemed almost to challenge it to in.
dlgnation and mutiny.
The Army on War Footing.
II was necessary, for every reason
OF prudence and good craftsmanship,
to keep the army still upon a war foot.
ing. There are sure signs of peace
no doubt, but no man could foretell
what might be the course of politics
ere England should have compounded
her quarrel with France and Spain,
and ended the wars with which the
Revolution had become inextricably
involved.
'Twere folly to leave the English
army at New York unchecked Pre-.
mature confidence that peace had
come might bring some sudden dis
aster OF arms. should the enemy take
the field again.
The army must be ready TO fight, If
only to make fighting unnecessary.
No Power to Raise Money
( Washington would have assumed
the offensive again. would have crush.
ed Clinton where he lay in New York;
and the congress was not slack-as
/ slackness was counted therein sus-
{ tanning his counsels. But the con-
gress had no power to raise money;
had no power 70 command
I The states alone could make it pos.
sible to tax the country to pay the
army; their thirteen governments
I Epra the only z{vFT ourhnrffy opd sbax,
ook the needs and the discontents
If the army very lightly, deemed peace
secure and war expenses unnecessary,
and let matters drift as they would
/ They came very near drifting 10 an
! other revolution revolution such as
/ politicians had left out OF their reck-
! oning, and only Washington could
avert.
Washington Helps Congress.
After Yorktown, Washington spent
four months In Philadelphia, helping
the congress forward with the Dusi-
ness OF the winter; but as March OF
the new year C17S2) drew towards its
close. he rejoined the army at New
burgh, to resume his watch upon New
York
He had been scarcely two months at
his post when a letter was placed in
his hands which revealed, more fully
than any observations OF his own
could have revealed It. the pass 10
which affairs had come.
An UnweIeome Letter.
The letter was from Colonel Lewis
Nicola, an old and respected ofhcer.
who stood nearer than did most OF his
fellow officers to the commander-in-
chief in intimacy and affection, and
who felt it his privilege to speak plain
ly. The letter was calm in temper,
grave and moderate in tone, with
something OF the gravity and method
of disquisltion written upon abstract
questions OF government; did not
breach its meaning Ike revolution
airy document. But what il proposed
was nothing less, when read between
the lines, than that Washington should
suffer himself to be made king, and
that so an end should be put to the
lncompetency and ingratitude Of a
band OF weak and futile republics.
An Overwhelming RebUke.
~ L. 4.