Letter to Lord Mahon: Being an Answer to His Letter Addressed to the Editor of Washington's WritingsLittle, Brown,, 1852 - 48 strani |
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Stran 16 - By all accounts, there never existed a more miserable set of beings, than these wretched creatures now are. Taught to believe, that the power of Great Britain was superior to all opposition, and...
Stran 34 - The quartermaster-general is precisely in the same situation ; and the greater part of the troops are in a state not far from mutiny, upon the deduction from their stated allowance.
Stran 15 - I would tell them, that we had borne much, that we had long and ardently sought for reconciliation upon honorable terms, that it had been denied us, that all our attempts after peace had proved abortive, and had been grossly misrepresented, that we had done...
Stran 14 - Motives of resentment actuate his conduct to a degree equal to the destruction of the colony.
Stran 19 - Nor are we to have the amusing description of a fifth New England officer, General Ward, who first resigned on account of his ill health, and then retracted . his resignation, ' on account, as he says, of its being disagreeable to some of the officers. Who those officers are, I have not heard. They have been able, no doubt, to convince him of his mistake, and that his health will allow him to be alert and active.
Stran 20 - The plague, trouble, and vexation I have had with the crews of all the armed vessels, are inexpressible. I do believe there is not on earth a more disorderly set. Every time they come into port, we hear of nothing but mutinous complaints.
Stran 12 - Of course you must be the best authority as to your own intentions. Yet; let me ask you, what other motive can by possibility be assigned for such corrections besides the one that I have stated ? Is it not quite clear in these cases, that you were seeking to use language more conformable to Washington's dignity of character than Washington could use for himself? We in England, with the highest respect for the memory of that great man, believe that in his own true form he is sufficiently exalted....
Stran 8 - Washington, however, in his public letter to Congress, (unless Mr. Jared Sparks has improved this passage,) says, that the troops had testified
Stran 16 - ... under greater disadvantages than the King's (I think it idle to keep up the distinction of ministerial) troops have done, being obliged in a manner, to man their own vessels; seamen not being to be had for the King's transports, and submit to all the hardships that can be conceived. One or two of them have committed what it would have been happy for mankind if more of them had done, long ago: the act of suicide.
Stran 15 - ... instruments of lawless domination, avarice, and revenge, best deserve the appellation of rebels, and the punishment of that cord, which your affected clemency has forborne to inflict...