Beadle's Dime Novels No. 127: Bald Eagle — page 19: what you’re looking at

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THE THOR. 21 Gloucester. The stress of the times, the evident crisis of events which now became apparent, rendered the greatest cir- cumspection requisite, as the least false step might plunge the army into disaster and ruin. The calm mind of Washington took in ali with its rare comprehensiveness, and came to results at once wise and for the general good. Hitherto his movements had been such as to Load Sir Henry Clinton to suppose that New York would be the unquestioned point of attack; and the impression had been given to our own army, so that the taking of New York had become the familiar gossip of the camp. | Though his head-quarters were further up the country, he not unfrequently appeared in the little valley of Ramapo, the better to assure the inhabitants, and to take those mene of observation so essential to a military leader. The highest mountain peak of the Highlands of the Hud- son, in the vicinity of which we write, was called the Thor, or king mountain, so named by the German settlers: From the top of the Thor, New York bay and harbor may be plainly descried, a distance of thirty miles. Often of a morning the stately form of Washington might be seen standing here, like some fabulous demigod, reconnoitering the sess ss was his fayorite place of observation. | Anxious as was the period of which we are eeertlan’ it was, as we have said, full of hope. The revolt of the Pennsylvania militia at Morristown, and the subsequent mutinous rising of the Jersey corps, while they for a moment spread dismay through the country, and increased the already overwhelming burdens of the commander-in-chief, had yet-a bright side, and served to develop into stronger light the noble materials of which the army was composed. bobhs helboid, These mutinous men, ragged and a relingps as they were, were staunch patriots to the core. Though importuned with the most flattering offers of pardon and emolument from the British, their liberty and exemption from military service fully guaranteed, not only did they reject such proposals, but de- livered the emissaries of Sir Henry Clinton up to the com- mander, to: be dealt with according to the usages of war. They loved the cause and the country none the less, but, goaded by suffering, had resolved to stuart Congress from its lukewarmness. connicloooks.com