Connecticut as a colony and as a state; or, One of the original thirteen; (1904) (14595536760)

Identifier: connecticutascol03morga (find matches)
Title: Connecticut as a colony and as a state; or, One of the original thirteen;
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Morgan, Forrest, 1852- ed Hart, Samuel, 1845-1917, joint ed Trumbull, Jonathan, 1844-1919, joint ed Holmes, Frank R., joint ed Bartlett, Ellen Strong, joint ed
Subjects: Connecticut -- History
Publisher: Hartford, The Publishing Society of Connecticut
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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d sometimes as a traitor, he neverregretted it, and declared that in the same situation he woulddo the same again. Sometime, the moral elevation of a manwho cared more for mercy and the welfare of others than forhis own good name in the mouths of the unthinking, will beappreciated, and the Brock stamp of man will not shine quiteso brightly. With the fall of Detroit, the whole Northwestlapsed to the British. That was the price paid for going towar in a reckless hurry, under a peace administration, withnothing ready, with incompetent civil and military heads.But it was easier and more satisfactory to blame the victimof their own laches than themselves, and of course the headsof the administration would shift their own derelictions onthe minor scape-goat. There was a roar of wrath, and Hull was court-martialedfor treason. The court-martial was a disgrace to decency.The president of it was that very Dearborn whose incapacityand sluggishness, to say nothing worse, had not only left Hull 72
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from a painting by Gilbert Stuart.