^Journnl of the Provincial Congress, "Die Sabbati, 10 ho., A.M., May "18. 177(!."

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, 1774-1783.

else than themselves should do whatever fighting might become necessary; but, on the other hand, those who were expected to do the fatigue duty and to hazard their lives, had begmi to see that the offices and the benefits to be derived from their expected labor and exposure were to be converted mainly to the benefit of others ; and their enthusiasm for " the " Rights of Man and of Englishmen," which w^as formerly proclaimed by multitudes of earnest men, with scarcely one holding back, was, also, " sensibly " declining," as Marshall has aptly said -- indeed, enlistments were made only among those who were desperately poor or among those whose moral characters were not unstained; and even these had to be bribed by bounties, that certain iudication that something else than simple, unadulterated patriotism inspired the act. General Washington was at New York, with the main body of the Continental Army, strengthening the defences and seeking means to prevent the passage of ships of war up the Hudsonriver or, through the East-river, into the Sound; urging the increase of his Army on those who did no more than call on others, as unwilling as themselves, to enter the ranks ; and begging for Arms and munitions of War, of which he was almost destitute, from those who had neither Arms nor munitions of War to bestow on him nor on any other. A large body of Militia, as will be seen, hereafter, was ordered into the field, for the support of the Army, to be mustered in until the close of the year; a " Flying Camp," so called, was ordered to be composed of ten thousand men from Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Marv'land ; and, on every hand, were seen the active preparations, by an unwilling and bounty-bought or povertydriven Army, to settle the dispute in which it possessed no direct, if any, interest, by the arbitrament of Arms. ■