Case di statisti americani: . Rondly meraviglia che, in tempi successivi, uomini di com-mon istintivamente desiderato e previsto di farlo aking. La battaglia di Bunker Hill aveva avuto luogo nel tempo thatintervenne tra il consenso di Washingtons e la ricezione della sua commissione, in modo che egli si mise a Cambridge, con nolingering dubbi sulla natura, il significato, o il risultato di theservice in cui aveva promesso tutti. Egli scrive a hisfrate, sono imbarcato su un ampio oceano, sconfinato in itsprospect, e in cui, forse, non è possibile trovare porto sicuro.La Sua residenza a Cambridge, una bella vecchia villa, ancora si erge, e io

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Homes of American statesmen: . rdly wonder that, in after times, com-mon men instinctively desired and expected to make him aking. The battle of Bunker Hill had taken place in the time thatintervened between Washingtons consent and the receipt ofhis commission, so that he set out for Cambridge, with nolingering doubt as to the nature, meaning, or result of theservice in which he had pledged all. He writes to hisbrother, I am embarked on a wide ocean, boundless in itsprospect, and in which, perhaps, no safe harbor is to be found.His residence at Cambridge, a fine old mansion, still stands, and in worthy occupancy. Here it was that he undertook theintolerable duty of organizing a young army, without clothes, tents, ammunition, or money, with a rich, bitter and disci-plined enemy in sight, and boiling blood on both sides. Here WASHINGTON. 23 it was that General Gage, with whom he had fought, side byside, twenty years before, on the Monongahela, so exasperatedhim by insolent replies to his remonstrances against the cruel. Headquarters, Cambridge 1775. treatment of American prisoners, that he gave directions forretaliation upon any of the enemy that might fall into Ameri-can hands. He was, however, Washington still, even thoughburning with a holy anger ; and, ere the order cquld reach itsdestination, it was countermanded, and a charge given to allconcerned that the prisoners should be allowed parole, and that 24 HOMES OF AMERICAN STATESMEN. every other proper indulgence and civility sliotdd be shownthem. His letters to General Gage are models of that kind ofwriting. In writing to Lord Dartmouth afterwards, the Britishcommander, who had been rebuked with such cutting and de-served severity, observes with great significance, The trialswe have had, show the rebels are not the despicable rabble wehave supposed them to be. Washington was not without a stern kind of wit, on certainoccasions. When the rock was struck hard, it failed not infire. The jealousy of military domination

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