Washington and his generals, or, Legends of the Revolution

PART THE FOURTH.
The fall of the banner of the stars 52
I. Washington in danger 52
His gallant exploit 53
II. The unknown form 53
Death, in the Riot, the Home and
the battle 53
One face among a thousand 54
The Messenger of Peace 54
III. The Revel of Death 56
The drop from the ceiling 56
Not blood but wine 57
The last drop from the Goblet 58
IV. The Wissahikon 59
A poem of everlasting beauty 59
The Hessians and the Continentals 60
The vengeance of the Continentals 61
V. The Crisis of the fight 61
Nine o'clock in the morning 61
The daring of the Chieftains 62
The Curse of Washington 63
VI. “Retreat.” 64
Washington's agony 64
PART THE FIFTH,
The last shot of the battle. 65
I. The soldier and his burden 65
The group by the wayside 65
How goes the battle? 66
The last fight of the veteran 67
“Lost!” 68
II. How the legions came back from
battle 68
The terror of the retreat 68
The wound of General Nash 69
Washington's last look at the field 69
III. Captain Lee 69
His daring adventure 70
He foils the Hanovarians 71
IV. Sunset upon the battle-field 71
The spirit of desolation 71
Death, supreme, among the wrecks
of battle 72
The murdered boy 72
V. The legend of General Agnew
again 73
He will go `Home!' to morrow! 73
The last dead man of the battle day 74
PART THE SIXTH,
The funeral of the dead 74
I. The ancient Church 75
Washington and his Generals before
the graves of the dead 75
II. Funeral sermon over the dead 76
The preacher speaks of the dead 76
—To Washington 77
—Of the Heroes of the Past 78
III. Prayer for the dead 79
The last scene 80
BOOK SECOND.
The Wissahikon 85
Introduction—the beauty of the
stream and dell—a gleam of the
Indian maids of old 85
I. The consecration of the Deliverer
86
The Monastery 87
A strange scene 88
The Priest of Wissahikon 89
The last day of 1773 90
A wild superstition 91
The new World, the Ark of Freedom
92
Prayer of the father and son 93
The Deliverer comes 94
The Prophet speaks to him 95
A maiden looks upon the scene 96
The Deliverer is consecrated 97
He takes the oath 98
Washington visits the ruins 98
II. The Midnight Death 99
Scene on the Wissahikon at midnight
99
Ellen 100
Old Michael meets the Tory band 101
The Parricide 102
The Orphan's curse 103
The yell of the dying horse and
his rider 104
III. The Bible Legend of the Wissahikon
104
A memory of “Paoli!” 104
The ordeal 105
The Old and New Testaments 106
This speaks, Life, that, Death 106
The hand of Providence 107
IV. The temptation of Washington 107
Washington in prayer 108
The stranger in the red uniform 108
A Dukedom for the Rebel 109
Scorn from the Rebel to the King 110

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V. Washington as duke, king
and rebel 111
The Viceroy Washington 111
He is presented to the King 112
He is crowned in Independence
Hall 113
He is beheaded on Tyburn Hill 113
As he is! 114
VI. The hero Woman 115
The block house among the
woods 115
The young girl beholds her
father's danger 116
She loads the rifle 117
A terrible picture 117
She points the rifle to the powder
keg 118
VII. King George in Westminster
Abbey 119
An afternoon among the dead 119
How the good king looked 120
How he scorned the widow's
prayer 120
What strange sights he saw 121
Orphans curse him! 122
He visits Valley Forge 123
Washington prays against him 124
He goes mad again 125
VIII. Valley Forge 126
The Tory and his daughter
Mary 126
The plot to entrap Washington 127
The Room on the Right and the
Room on the left 128
The old man beholds his victim 129
The last word of the death-stricken
130
IX. The Mansion on the Schuylkill
131
The falls of Schuylkill 131
A scene of the olden time 132
The last secret of Cornelius
Agrippa 133
The Sister, in her Vision sees
her brother 134
Amable in danger 134
The libertine enjoys the sight
of his intended victim—
the agony of the dying
man 135
A red Indian 136
A white Indian 137
The Virgin Widow 138
`Do not lift the coffin-lid from
the face of the dead!' 139
Indian to the last 139
X. The graveyard of Germantown
140
Its memories of God and Immortality
140
A father—a Mother—two
sisters! 140
The old Quaker and the Skeletons
141
A rough battle picture 142
`He saw Washington!' 143
—`Cornwallis!' 144
XI. “Remember Paoli!” 144
The camp fire of Mad Anthony 144
The Massacre 145
Stony Point 146
How Anthony `Remembered
Paoli!' 148
BOOK THIRD.
BENEDICT ARNOLD. 151
I. The Mother and her babe 151
Scene in a New England church,
one hundred years ago 151
The strange vision of the
Mother 152
The Babe grown to Manhood—
the Child changed into a
Devil 153
One drop of virtue, in a sea of
crimes! 153
II. The Druggist of New Haven 154
The fearful nature of this history
154
The deformed Children of
history 155
The Druggist 155
How he became a Soldier 156
Ticonderoga! 156
III. The March through the Wilderness
157
Napoleon and Arnold 158
Washington and Arnold, — interview
“Continental.” 158
The Kennebec—a lone Indian 159
The Murder of a Priest at the
Altar, by White Savages 160
Arnold claims the Wilderness—
the Prophecy 161

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The River of the Dead 162
The Banner of the Stars 162
The Lake 162
The fearful dangers of Arnold and
his men 163
He sees Quebec! 163
IV. The attack on Quebec 163
Montgomery and Arnold pledge
their Faith on the heighths
of Abraham 164
Arnold, with his Men,advances
to the first barrier 165
Arnold in his glory 166
Aaron Burr bends over the
Corse of Montgomery 167
Arnold in the madness of the
battle 168
V. The War-Horse Lucifer 169
Retreat of the American army—
incident in the career of
Arnold 169
VI. The Ape-and-Viper God 170
The renown of Arnold 170
The Spirit of Party 170
The injustice of Congress to
Arnold 171
His adventure near Danbury 172
VII. The Bridal-Eve 172
The festival and wager 173
The Apparition 173
The bloody scalp and long
black hair 175
An awful bridal Eve! 176
VIII. The Black Horse, and his
rider; or “Who was
the Hero of Saratoga?” 176
Horatio Gates before his tent 176
The Black Horse and his Rider 177
“Ho! Warren! forward?” 178
The scene with the retreating
soldiers 179
A strange spectacle! 180
The crisis of the conflict 180
In the moment of peril, the Champion
of the day appears 181
The Battle is won—fate of the
Black Horse and his rider
—meanness of Gates 182
Arnold the Conqueror 183
IX. Arnold the Military Commander
of Philadelphia 183
The aisle of Christ Church 183
The Hero of Quebec and his
Bride 184
The Tory Aristocracy of Philadelphia
184
Its cowardice, meanness and
pretension 185
The difficulty of Arnold's
position 180
His long expected trial and the
offences of which he was
found guilty 187
The nature of these offences 188
A court of History, for the trial
of Arnold's chief accuser 189
X. Who was this accuser? 190
General Cadwallader and the
Adjutant General of the
army—their conversation
in 1776 190
Serious charges against the
Adjutant General 194
The summing up of the evidence
192
Arnold's memorable words 192
XI. The Disgrace of Arnold 192
The day of the reprimand 192
He cannot `live down persecution'
193
The scene of the Reprimand 194
The portrait of the Accuser 195
XII. Arnold at Landsdowne 196
He meditates the Future 196
His Palace—his Wife—his
Infamy 197
The silent influence of his
Wife 198
XIII. Arnold the Traitor 199
The struggle 199
Three visitors 200
The Dispatch to Sir Henry
Clinton 201
Arnold alone with his wife 201
XIV. The Fall of Lucifer 201
Tragedy and Common-Place 201
The Breakfast table of the
Traitor 202
The wife and the babe of the
Traitor 203
The expected Guest, does not
come 204
The bursting of the thunder-bolt 205
Arnold under the British flag 206

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Washington learns the
Treason 207
The Mother and Washington 208
The Ship Vulture and its Passenger
209
XV. The Tulip-Poplar, or the
Poor Men Heroes of
the Revolution 210
Seven men watch for robbers 210
The day-dream of the wayfarer 211
Three men of the seven, arrest
the traveller 212
The Pass of Arnold 213
The development 214
The bribe 215
A prisoner, a spy and the Vulture
in sight! 216
The Poor Men Heroes of the
Revolution 217
The blunder by which Arnold
escaped 218
XVI. The Knight of the Meschianza
219
A scene of romance 219
The Tournament 220
The scene sadly changed 221
The Gallows 221
The victim for the Sacrifice 222
The Knight of the Meschianza
dies 223
Flowers on the Gibbet 223
XVII. John Champe 224
The luxurious chamber 224
A mysterious visitor 225
The Ghost of John Andre 226
The wife of Arnold and the
Ghost 227
Washington in his Tent 228
A Knight of the Revolution 229
Only one way to save Andre? 230
The Camp of Lee's Legion 231
John Champe 232
The Deserter 233
The Pursuit 234
The stratagem 235
The hounds at fault 236
John Champe, the doomed man 237
“Powhatan save your master!” 238
The Crisis 239
Lee's laughter 240
A beautiful woman 241
A shadow of death, in the
festival 242
Arnold's Oath 243
Champe alone with Arnold 244
Washington's letter 245
The memory of the gallant
Knight 246
How he died 246
Vengeance upon the Double
Traitor 248
The Phantom of Arnold's life 249
The Man who has not one
friend in the world 250
Lee's encampment again—
scene changed 250
“Champe a brave and honest
man!” 251
Explanation of the Mystery 252
One of the noblest names in
history 253
XVIII. The Temptation of Sir Henry
Clinton 253
A calm evening and a cloudless
soul 253
Sir Henry Clinton shudders at
the picture 254
Exchange the Traitor for the
Spy 255
Sir Henry's terrible temptation 256
Arnold's sneer 257
XIX. The Sisters 257
A flower garden 257
The bud and the moss rose 258
The Sisters talk of the absent 259
The Presentiment of the Second
of October 260
The return of the aged soldier 261
The fatal intelligence 261
The Brother's Star 262
XX. Andre the Spy 263
Andre a partner in Arnold's
Conspiracy 263
The Wife of Arnold, also a
conspirator 263
Washington condemned him
justly 263
Tears for the fate of Andre 264
XXI. Nathan Hale 264
The farewell of the student
soldier 264
The Blessing of the aged
Mother 266

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The Betrothed 266
The Cell of the doomed Spy 266
The Martyr who has perilled Honor
for his Country 267
The last night of the Doomed 268
The Death of the Martyr 269
No monument for him! 270
XXII. The Martyr of the South 270
Gloom in Charleston 270
The Gallows and the Murderer 271
The Prayer of the Sister and the
Children 272
The Response of the titled Murderer 273
The farewell beside the gibbet 274
The cry of the Idiot Boy 275
The contempt of Washington 276
XXIII. Arnold in Virginia 276
Arnold the Destroyer 276
Despised by all—the men who
bought him, and the men
whom he would have sold 277
A strange legend 277
The Benighted traveller and the
old hunter 278
An old soldier's opinion of Arnold 279
The emotion of the stranger 280
The old hunter sees a vision of
the Evil Spirit 281
XXIV. The three words which followed
Benedict Arnold
to his Grave 282
The burning of New London and
Fort Griswold 282
The death of Leydard 283
British magnanimity 283
The guilt and weakness of King
George 283
The three words 284
Talleyrand and Arnold 285
The Remorse of the Traitor 286
The obscurity of his death 286
XXV. Arnold; his glory, his wrongs,
his crimes 287
His early life 287
The prime of his manhood 288
Washington's opinion of him 289
His marriage—his enemies—his
postponed trial 290
Review of his offences, difficulties
and treason 291
Motives of the Author in this dark
history 292
The three lines, which comprise the
whole burden of this Tragedy 292
XXVI. The Right Arm 293
An awful death-bed 294
A superhuman Remorse 295
The last memory of the fallen
Lucifer 296
The Right arm 296
BOOK THE FOURTH.
THE BATTLE OF BRANDYWINE.
I. The Glory of the Land of Penn 299
Pennsylvania neglected by history 299
Her monuments 300
II. The Prophet of the Brandywine
301
Description of the Valley of Brandywine
302
Prophecy uttered forty years before
the battle 303
III. The Fear of War 306
The landing of Howe 306
IV. The Gathering of the Hosts 306
The encampment of Washington
and his Men 307
Howe, Cornwallis and their hirelings
308
V. The Preacher of Brandywine 309
The Preacher Heroes of the Revolution
309
Hymn to the Preacher Heroes 310
Revolutionary Sermon 312
Prayer of the Revolution 314
VI. The Dawn of the Fight 315
Washington holds council under
the chesnut tree 315
La Fayette 316
The attack at Chadd's Ford 317
VII. The Quaker Temple 318
Survey of the battle-field 319
Howe comes to battle 320
VIII. Washington comes to battle 321
The approach of the American
Banner 321
IX. The Hour of Battle 322
The moment before the contest
begins 322
Howe gives the signal 322
The battle 323
X. The Poetry of Battle 324

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The Idiot King and the Warrior
Form 324
XI. Lord Percy's dream. 325
The story of Percy, told by him to
Cornwallis 325
He beholds his Dream 326
His charge 327
He meets his Indian Brother 328
XII. The Last Hour 329
Retreat of Washington 329
Daring of the Boy La Fayette 329
XIII. Pulaski 330
In his glory 330
How he spoke English 331
Washington a man of genius 332
Pulaski rescues the Chieftain 333
Night comes down on Pulaski 333
XIV. Washington's last charge at
Brandywine 334
Washington the Man 334
The key to his character 335
He surveys the battle 336
He goes down, to say to the British
—“farewell!” 337
The carnage of his last charge 338
La Fayette wounded 339
The smile of the Brandywine 340
XV. The Hunter Spy 340
Scene among the mountains 340
Washington, the Colonel at Braddock's
field 341
The three fugitives 342
The sleeping spy 343
His punishment 346
The Boy looks in his father's face 347
A horrible picture 348
XVI. The son of the Hunter Spy 348
The old man and his memory 349
The peasant girl, Mary 350
The son of the Hunter Spy 352
The arm of the maiden, supplies the
place of a bolt 354
The Black Hercules 355
The haystack 356
The son, avenges the death of the
father 358
The infamous butcheries of England
and the crimes of King George 359
The Vow of the Negro Sampson 360
XVII. Black Sampson 360
Flowers from ashes 360
War, the parent of many virtues 361
The American Union a sacred
thing 361
The guilt of the wretch who would
destroy it 362
The memories of the Negro Prince 363
The outraged Mary 364
The Dog—`Debbil' 365
Sampson prepares to `go a-mowing.' 366
He mows British stubble 367
The last scene of Mary 368
The fate of the Son of the Hunter
Spy 370
XVIII. The Mechanic Hero of Brandywine
372
A scene of British mercy 372
The strange battle-cry 374
The three last shots of the dying
man 375
XIX. Anthony Wayne at Brandywine 375
The boy and the mimic fight 375
The Man and the bloody battle 376
Wayne and his Roan horse 377
His riflemen drive back the Hessians
378
The doubt of Washington 379
Wayne beholds the battle of the
afternoon 381
The appearance of Kniphausen 383
The charge of Mad Anthony 384
XX. Forty-seven years after the
battle 386
La Fayette comes again to the
battle-field 386
His emotion as he contrasts the condition
of America with that of
France 387
BOOK THE FIFTH.
THE FOURTH OF JULY, 1776.
I. The Day.
The old state house 391
The old man, the boy, and the Bell 392
The message of the Bell to the
world 393
The fifty-six, and the Speech of the
Unknown 394
The message of the Declaration 395
The New Exodus of God's People,
the Poor 396
The signing of the Parchment 397

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II. The Apostle to the New
World 398
The River shore, two hundred
years ago 398
The Landing of the Apostle 400
The Mission of The Apostle 401
The Pipe of Peace 402
III. “Back eighteen hundred years!” 403
The Declaration traced from the
Hall of Independence to the
Mount of Calvary 403
The Hut of the Carpenter 404
Godhead enshriaed in the form of
Toil 405
The Bride of the Living God 406
The Doubt of Divinity 407
IV. The Wilderness 407
The skeleton people 408
The self-communion of the Nazarene 409
The Prince of this world 410
The Panorama of Empire 411
Ninevah—Rome, Imperial—Rome,
Papal 411
The bloody grandeur of the Monster
Empire 412
The voice of the Tempter, to every
Reformer 413
The Pharasee of the Pulpit 414
The Viper of the Press 415
The Ministering of the Angels 415
VI. “The Outcast” 416
Sabbath in the synagogue 416
The appearance of the Carpenter's
Son 417
He announces the great Truth, in
which is built the Declaration
418
The “Infidel” is thrust from the
Synagogue 419
The Godhead shines from the brow
of Toil 420
The last look of the Outcast upon
his Home 421
The name of the Outcast covers all
the earth 422
The Coming of the day of God 423
VII. The hope of eighteen hundred
years 423
The fate of the Saviour's mission
in 1775 423
Pope George of England and his
Missionaries 424
The solitary man on shipboard 425
VIII. The Council of Freemen 425
Washington, Adams, Rush, Franklin,
in council with the Unknown
stranger 426
The word “Independence” first
spoken 426
IX. The Battle of the Pen 427
The author—his garret—the battle
which he fights 427
“Common Sense” in a book 428
The name of the Stranger 429
X. The Author-Soldier 429
He follows the Army of Washington
429
The libeller of the dead 429
X. The People and the Criminal 430
A King on Trial; his Crime, treason
to the People 431
King George, guilty of treason and
murder 432
Thomas Paine pleads for the life
Louis Capet 433
XI. King Guillotine 433
Death of Louis and Marie
Antoinette 433
The offerings to the bloody Majesty
of France 434
XII. Truth from the carnage 434
The principle of the French Revolution
434
The hideous murders that have been
done in the name of God 435
The Reign of Terror contrasted with
the Massacre of St. Bartholomew
436
XIII. The Reign of the King of
Terror 436
The chamber in the palace 436
`The orange-faced dandy' and his
Death-list 437
XIV. The fall of King Guillotine 437
The Hall of the National Assembly
—the fear of Robespierre 437
The Death of the King of the reign
of Terror 438
XV. The Bible 439
The Palace-Prison of the Luxemburg
439
Genius profaned in the “Age of
Reason” 440

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The beauty, tenderness, truth of
the Bible 441
The mistake of Thomas Paine 442
My motives in the discussion of his
character, writings and life 443
Christianity not the dogma of a creed
but the Religion of the Heart 444
XVI. The death-bed of Thomas Paine 445
A dying old man 445
The hyena-fang of the bigot, enters
his soul 446
A Quaker speaks Hope! to the
Infidel 446
`No grave for your bones, in Christian
burial ground' 447
He dies 447
While we pity the Deist, we should
reverence the Patriot 448
XVII. Review of the History 449
XVIII. The last day of Jefferson and
Adams 449
The fourth of July, 1826 449
Fifty years after the Great Day 450
The Home of Quincy 451
The Death of John Adams 452
The Hermitage of Monticello 453
The Death of Thomas Jefferson 454
A miracle 454
A dark contrast 454
XIX. The nameless death 455
The Prison 455
The Prisoner 456
An infamous law, upheld by pirates
and assassins in broad cloth 457
XX. The last of the Signers 457
Life, leaf, light mingle in Death 457
The old man dies before the Crucifix
458
The Violater of the Grave,
A sequel to the fourth of July, 1776 459
The vilest Wretch 461
The man who blasphemes the Dead 462
A Traitor coated in Gold 463
The Assassin of souls 464
What is, and what is not, “well
timed” 465
Glimpses of “Common Sense.” 466
The old malice of a Tory 468
Burke the Scyophant 469
A warning to Traitors' descendants 470
The children of the Author-Hero 471
BOOK THE SIXTH.
Romance of the Revolution.
I. Michael X X X: a tradition
of the two worlds 475
The Soldier returning home 475
The war-horse Old Legion 476
The Memory of Alice 477
Home! 478
The foreboding of death 479
The Soldier and his father 480
The Chamber of Alice 481
The curtained bed 482
The Revelation 483
The death of the white horse 484
The Covenant of Blood 485
The dream of the Godlike face 486
The bracelet of Alice 487
Alice! 488
The Revenge of the Legionary 489
Michael the soldier, and Michael the
General, Marshal and Duke 490
II. The ninth Hour 491
A scene in Valley Forge 491
Washington and the Sergeant 492
A strange volunteer for a work of
death 493
The Bridegroom looks upon the
Bride 494
The fear of the word, Nine 495
The last kiss 496
An old mansion in a dark dell 497
“Death to Washington!” 498
The Ordeal 499
The Spy 500
“Ah!”—how the memory of childhood
melts the heart of stone 501
A strange revelation in the history
of a soul 502
Again the fatal number—Nine! 503
Washington—Wayne—La Fayette
—Hamilton—Burr, the Wedding
Guests 503
III. Washington's trust 504
The fallen goblet 505
An half hour of suspense—the guests
await the explanation of the
mystery 506
The Bride and Bridegroom alone 506
The Ninth hour of the Ninth Day
of the Ninth Year 507
The Sight which Washington
beheld 508

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IV. The Preacher-General 509
Sabbath Noon—the Church of St.
John 509
The Sacrament 510
Strange words from a Preacher 511
Beneath the Gown, or Hero's heart 512
The Preacher-General 513
His adventure 514
Yorktown 514
Who was the Preacher-General 515
V Trenton, or the footstep in the
snow, a tradition of Christmas
night, 1776 516
The Poetry of Home 516
The footstep in the Snow 517
“Trenton!” 518
VI. The Printer-Boy and the Ambassador
519
A picture of Toil 519
A scene of Night, Music, Romance 520
The true Nobleman of God 521
VII. The Rest of the Pilgrim 522
The Jerusalem of the Soul 522
The Rock of Wissahikon 522
Legends of the Lost-Nations of
America 523
A sublime vision 523
The three Empires 524
Legends of the golden and bloody
land 524
The Soldier of the New Crusade 525
The Author to the reader 526
A new pilgrimage 527

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