Writing from Washington to the Philadelphia Press, Col. Forney says:–
When I come to the mere matter of individual judgment, I firmly believe that Gen. McClellan will make Yorktown the theater of a victory more brilliant, though more desperately contested, than that which crowned our arms and contributed to the close of the conflict during the Revolution. It is stated as a curios historical fact, that the men who stood by Washington when he compelled the surrender of Cornwallis were not Southern but Northern troops – the soldiers of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and New England. Their descendants now fight under the same flag that marshaled the fight in the same cause that consecrated his sword. He struck against the British tyrant. Our brave men strike against a domestic tyrant, equally cruel, false, and unscrupulous.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, April 24, 1862, p. 2
When I come to the mere matter of individual judgment, I firmly believe that Gen. McClellan will make Yorktown the theater of a victory more brilliant, though more desperately contested, than that which crowned our arms and contributed to the close of the conflict during the Revolution. It is stated as a curios historical fact, that the men who stood by Washington when he compelled the surrender of Cornwallis were not Southern but Northern troops – the soldiers of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and New England. Their descendants now fight under the same flag that marshaled the fight in the same cause that consecrated his sword. He struck against the British tyrant. Our brave men strike against a domestic tyrant, equally cruel, false, and unscrupulous.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, April 24, 1862, p. 2
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