The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-04-11

xWuched in terms OF unaffected cor
duality Washington very gladly &C.
cFpfed. IN q letter that had Just
tnach Of the young provincial in II.
30 elaborate and OVERRIDING Was It's ex-
PLANTATION OF It's writer's delicate posi-.
xioa and selfrespertlng motives. but
~fih so much more OF the proud gem
tiefnaH and resoiute man that the
emile with which Captain Orme must
have read II could have nothing OF
,llsrelsah In II.
the young afde-de camp and all the
other members OF the generals mill
anry family found It's author. at any
rate. man after their own hearts
when II came to terms OF intimacy
among them.
~ mld'April the commander-in-
chief had brought Eve governors to.
sether AZ Alexandria. IN obedience
10 hts. call for an immediate con.
ference William Shirley. Of Mas
sanhuHetts, the atout.henrfad old lau
yer every inch "a gentleman and pol
alielan. who had OF sudden turned
soldier 10 face the French. for all he
WAS past sixty. James DE Lancey, III
New York. astute man of the people,
abs brave aud energetic Horatlo
Share. Of Maryland; Robert Hunter
Norris. fresh from the latest wrangIes
with the headstrong Quakers and Ger.
Hnana ~ Pennsylvania. and Robert
5linwiddie the busy merchant COVER,
nor Of the OLD Dominion, whose urgent
&cifera 70 the government at home
haze brought nraddock and his regl.
rltenis TO the Potomac
Plans were promptly agreed upon.
New York and New England seeing
Aar come on apace. we're astir no less
shAn Virginia. and In active corre
epcndence with the ministers IN Lon
don Two regiments had already been
raised and taken into the ldngs pay
abe militia Of all the threatened col
aufli*s were nfoot; IN all quartera nc.
sion was expected aud instant war
TO strike al Niagara.
Governor shirley. the council
agreed, should strike az once at M.
agEra With the kings new provincial
regiments. 10 the hope 10 cut the On.
emyx connections with their Western
posts. Colonel William Johnson. the
ccnl.headed trader and borderer. who
rad lived aud thriven 80 long Ia tho
forests where the dreaded Mohawks
md their strength. should lead levy
from New England. New York and
New Jersey, to an attack upon Crown
Poiu5. where for twenty,lour years the
French had held Champaign; and
Lieutenant Colonel Monckton. OF the
kings regulars must take a similar
Foroe against Eieauseiour In Acadia.
White General nraddock struck
straight into the western wilderness
90 take Duquezne.
IweTe best 10 be prompt la every
part OF the hazardous business, aud
hrmddock turned from the conference
TO pnEh his own expedition forward
al once. After taking Fort I'M
aaesne." be said to Franklin. y am
so proceed 20 Niagara: and after hav.
INK taken that. 20 Frontenae. Il the
season viii allow time. and suppose
Il viii. for Dnquesne can hardly de-
tain Mie above three or four days. and
shen can see nothing that can oh.
struci my march % Niagara
The sagaclous franklin.
70 be sure. sir" quietly replied the
sSaEacinns Franklin: II sou arrive
we'll before Duqnesne With these fine
sfoors. so well provided with artillery
fhe fort can probably make
ont n short resistance
But there Was the trouble Twould
aave been better. 30 doubt. had a
route through Pennsylvania been
chosen, where cultivated farms al,
Teady stretched well into the west,
~ifh their own roads and grain and
cattle and wagons to serve an army
trish; but the Virginia route had been
selected BY intrigue OF gentlemen In.
terested IA tho Ohio company. il Was
hintedl and must needs be made the
xSeet OF
There MAS there. At the least, the
rough track Washington's men had
cur 70 the Great Meadows. This must
be Nidened and leyeled for an ARMY
wtsh SIS cumbrous train of artillery
and ~ endless procession OF Wagons
laden with baggage and provisions. Ia
sake two thousand men through the
dense forests With all the military
trappings and supplies Of European
army would be to put II might be-
-four miles Of IFS rough traii between
ran and rear OF the struggling line
and L would be a clumsy enemy. as
Sighting went in the woods. Who could
not cut such a force into plsces--elik
thread" as Franklin said
The Advances Begins.
The thing was 70 be attempted
nevertheless. with stubborn British
resolution Il vas the 18th or Ma,
before all the forces intended for ths
march we're fnaliy collected al For
Lassbarland. twenty-five hundred met
q fourteen hundred regulars
roH tte recruits we're "a: nearly nv.
sfrdred Nlre,niaAs. horse and foot,
SIS independent companies from Nes
ecsk and "a saeil force OF "a Tor