Speech of William H. Seward On the Claims of the Officers of the Revolutionary Army : Delivered in the Senate of the United States, January 5, 1857
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A character to lose— an estate to forfeit, the inestimable blessings of liberty at stake, and a life devoted, must be my excuse. — 1 Sparks, p. 235.
On the 9th of January, 1777, Washington had, with marvelous dexterity and enterprise, recross- ed the Delaware, surprised the British forces at Trenton and Princeton, and then had established himself at Morristown. Congress had so far yielded to his importunities as to direct an addi- tion of sixteen battalions to the new army, and to authorize Was...hington himself to commission their officers. In a letter to Colonel Baylor, who was forming one of those regiments, he shows the importance of good officers: "I earnestly recommend to you to be circumspect in your choice of officers — take none but gentlemen ; let no local attachments influence you; do not suffer your good nature, when an application is made, to say yes when you ought to say no. Keniember that it is a public, not a private cause, that is to be injured or benefited by your choice.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
A character to lose— an estate to forfeit, the inestimable blessings of liberty at stake, and a life devoted, must be my excuse. — 1 Sparks, p. 235.
On the 9th of January, 1777, Washington had, with marvelous dexterity and enterprise, recross- ed the Delaware, surprised the British forces at Trenton and Princeton, and then had established himself at Morristown. Congress had so far yielded to his importunities as to direct an addi- tion of sixteen battalions to the new army, and to authorize Was...hington himself to commission their officers. In a letter to Colonel Baylor, who was forming one of those regiments, he shows the importance of good officers: "I earnestly recommend to you to be circumspect in your choice of officers — take none but gentlemen ; let no local attachments influence you; do not suffer your good nature, when an application is made, to say yes when you ought to say no. Keniember that it is a public, not a private cause, that is to be injured or benefited by your choice.
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