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[394] Slaughter, 107-08.

[395] Howe, 266.

[396] Slaughter, 108.

[397] Weedon, 134; also, Heitman, 285.

[398] _Ib._

[399] Description of Marshall at Valley Forge by eye-witness, in _North American Review_ (1828), xxvi, 8.

[400] Ninth Virginia. (Heitman, 72.)

[401] _North American Review_ (1828), xxvi, 8.

[402] Weedon, Feb. 8, 1778, 226-27. Was.h.i.+ngton took the severest measures to keep officers from a.s.sociating with private soldiers.

[403] _Ib._, 227-28.

[404] _Ib._, Jan. 5, 1778; 180.

[405] See Was.h.i.+ngton's affecting appeal to the soldiers at Valley Forge to keep up their spirits and courage. (Weedon, March 1, 1778, 245-46.)

[406] Channing, ii, 559.

[407] See Rush's anonymous letter to Henry and the correspondence between Henry and Was.h.i.+ngton concerning the cabal. (Henry, i, 544-51.)

[408] Marshall, i, 217.

[409] Trevelyan, iv, 301.

[410] _Ib._, 303-04.

[411] ”The idea that any one Man Alone can save us is too silly for any Body but such weak Men as d.u.c.h.e to harbor for a Moment.” (Adams to Rush, Feb. 8, 1778; _Old Family Letters_, 11; and see Lodge: _Was.h.i.+ngton_, i, 208; also Wallace, chap. ix.)

[412] Sparks, 252; and Marshall, i, 218.

[413] Was.h.i.+ngton to President of Congress, Dec. 23, 1777; _Writings_: Ford, vi, 257-65. And see Was.h.i.+ngton's comprehensive plans for the reorganization of the entire military service. (Was.h.i.+ngton to Committee of Congress, Jan. 28, 1778; _ib._, 300-51.)

[414] _Hist. Mag._, v, 131.

[415] On April 10, 1778, aeda.n.u.s Burke of South Carolina broke a quorum and defied Congress. (Secret Journals of Congress, April 10, 11, 24, 25, 1778, i, 62; and see Hatch, 21.)

[416] Trevelyan, iv, 291-92.

[417] Was.h.i.+ngton to Harrison, Dec. 18, 1778; _Writings_: Ford, vii, 297-98.

[418] _Ib._

[419] At this period and long after a State was referred to as ”the country.”