20 eC * | can assure these gentlemen (officials held responsible for suffering at Valley Forge) that it is a much easier and less distressing thing to draw up remon- strances in a comfortable room by a good firest de than to occupy a cold, bleak hill and sleep under frost and snow without clothes or blankets. However, though they seem to have litle feeling for the naked and distressed soldiers, | feel super- abundantly for them, and from my soul I pity these miseries, which it is neither in my power to relieve nor prevent. — General Washington ’ » frais i ' by properly i ’ had (roorse heen RCOOO Hn most Jay. school before old, and, except In ced through did not t in the gramu mathem gean extend hes etry he stu kept notebooks titude for obtained of his England & fance to to fight instead o officer in his males '® service en out of school only a few months first johns n sur It wane oo, for Lord Falrfax avi noted equipment and his trepidity to survey his wild sere« in So well did Washington task that he made a Almost vevor jesion } wns put fie france urveyor coincident with hiz en upon n fied himself athletics and sports, he fol: the loeal old was made n min jor When 1} vnu still In fire! eoloneley In his private career Washington Fond of nffnlrs, neteon onng with public interests, fax well as of miliiar nnd. when ved sdlitin his twenties he won gallant, hut digas first eompaign ageinst the French It there that he first {(nsted the bitter frults of unprepared. nose, When Washington went fo member of (the Second Continental congress he his provinelal uniform. an Ingtractive ex. pression of his feeling In regard fo the erisis that was to come-«in Hg way an fulfillment of prophecy for during the session he was put at the head of the irregular army near Boston, He found that army. not only without discipline and equip- ment, but without powder. Men who had enlisted only for on few months ran away. Washington ardently appealed to the continental and pro. vinclal congresses to provide for longer enlist. hia rons, wns Philadelphia ns a wore set up idea of hes of the consequence of tained in the midst ex, not only with the trouble-makers in his predicament in know that much is happy without men nition, without of a soldier I know the world without and Injuring My situ has heen art to conceal 1t rtifvine tiiyving that im own wen Canse ORY the ation 1! to use even “ Ritune #0 sorely that he st ern. earnestly en to consider cons red him od 1: “The general most of! { we oan no way ng divi and suecess of ist our enemies nasi sifms among the ourselves: the depend upon har each that mon name of army and ur bhieeding country and god agreement with ' provi » nll uni to oppose the con ny and istinctions In the ericn. ather To make this name herty of our nd he who o honorable and to preserve ought to be our only will be the dier and the mitribhutes most to this glorious emintry heat snl atever hiz tation or from whatever part Let al) provinces try he may ' Come, of nations, eomntri wa nnd rota contest distinction thereof he lost who shall behave with the the enemy and the most good humor to ench other. ny be go lowt to in such severely in the most courage townrd Ines tied virtue and love of practice after punished and worviee In disgrace ™ After the die battle of Long Island, Washington the liberty of mene tioning to congress that no dependence conld he put in a militin or other troops than those enlisted and embodied for a longer period than our regula. tions have heretofore prescribed, “Our lberties must of necessity be hazarded, If not entirely lost, left fo any but a permanent standing army. 1 mean one to exist daring war. Men who have heen free and subjected to no control eannot be reduced to order in an Instant. , . “There 18 no sitnation on earth less enviable or more distressing,” continoes Washington, “than that person who is at the head of troops regard. less of order and discipline and unprovided with nlmost every necessity. The difficulties that have surrounded me since T have been In the service have kept my mind constantly upon the stretch country this order, discharged mitinne ill he from the 18irous once more took greatly if thelr defense is yo get pr gf on VALLEY FC dC and wantir in Washing Metatorial the emergency of put Hic of New York ape had taken in re Iater his au- be un- letter to invested with the ifinirs safety eri 24 a dis- vish Heaven § WH good there 13 situatior Asures a tenlous { its prerog stivos ais in of vonur ls forts in the you deserve the «olf HA DDS ’ . ’ ne in the Was resentme wi nowing wh 0 winter reprobating the and equally and. moreover, as If they ticahle for an ges I have d the measure as mucl mada of No gonsible of frost thought sollers ere stones concelved {it under ours to he to well ensily inferior army eweribod the dien« vantn confine a superior one, in all appointed, within the city of Philadelphia and to cover fron depredation and waste the states of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. I can assure these gen- flemen that It i= a much easier and less distress ing thing to draw up remonstrances in a com good] fireside than to occupy a hill and sleep under frost and snow clothes or hlankets However, althongh they seen to have little feeling for the naked and Gistressed soldiers, 1 feel superabundantly for them, and from my soul 1 pity those miseries, which it 1s neither in my power to relieve nor pre- vent." Washington persistent efforts te get n guarantee of half-pay for his officers after the war. himself having no personal interest in the mengure ; he had declared from the first that he would never profit by it to the amount of a single penny. He deprecated constantly the jealousy of the military part of the government by the civil department. “If we would pursue a right system of policy,” he wrote to n member of congress, “in my opinion there would be none of these distinctions, Wa should all, congress and army, be considered ns one people, embarked In one cause, in one interest, aeting on the same principle and to the same end.” In 1708 Washington, in his second term as presi- dent, wrote to congress that, while he sought peace and urged a faithful discharge of every duty toward others, he recommended prompt measures not only for defense but for enforcing Just claims. “There is a rank due the United States among other nations which will be withheld, If not ab. solutely lost, by the reputation of weakness, If we desire to avold Insult we must be able to repel it; If we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our prosperity, It must be known that we are at all times ready for war,” he wrote, respects fortable room hy n enld without bleak made ds PATROL TRAPPED Five Missing and One Captured. r— Shells Kill One And Wound Five U. 8, General Takes Command Of Sector Held By Sammies at elon? onfident nd with great REVENGED ON THE U-BOAT, American Officer Says It Was Thought To Be Sunk x Apne ONG et 3 ireland The pedoed sub the Tuscania attacked by a destroyer An Hoan officer gave an intimation the submarine was destroyed olticer one of the last to leave the Tuscania The second tor fired by subma missed ita mark, he said Thereupon a de which was near the siaking ofr the sub maine, using a dropping de vies The made that submarine ‘done In” by bombs thus exploded ine which to 1 Was pedo the rine giraover, liner, dashed toward bomb claim is was the CAPITAL PAPERS RAISE PRICE. 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