We are not unmindful, in what we have thus said, of the great use of (hat loyal element which Joseph Galloway made in his very lawyer-like publicatiims; but we have also borne in mind, that those publications were made for personal and partisan purposes ; and that, like his earlier awociutes in duplicity and treachery, he was capable of resorting to unsavory means for the accomplishment of any given end in which he wad personally interested, justifying the employment of those means by the character of the proposed end, and l>oUlly and unreservedly doing evil in | order that what he was pleased to regard as good might, therefrom, be | iecnreil;

" accounts to be collected from the inhabitants, who "are entirely ignorant of military description.'" Indeed, during that period, because of the character of the country, in its advantages for defensive operations, and because of his great disappointment, in his failure to receive the support, in arms, from those who were disaffected, which he had been led to expect, General Howe, also, became dispirited and disheartened, even to the extent of losing confidence in his own abilities and in those of his immense and well-otficered and well-disciplined command to make any further progress, during that Campaign, nor until the arrival of heavy reinforcements, during the ensuing Winter and Spring.* General Howe had

3 General Howe's Speech before a Committee of the House of Commons, April 29, 1779.

In his e.xamination before a Committee of the House of Commons, on the sixth of May, 1779, the Earl of Cornwallis testified that " the knowl- "edge of the country of America, for military purposes, was extremely "difficult to be obtained from the inhabitants ;'' that "the country, in " general, is so covered with wood and so favorable to ambuscades that, " certainly, it was very difficult to obtain a knowledge of it by recon- " noitering ; " and that he " never saw a stronger country or one better "calculated for the defensive." In anotlier portion of his testimony, the Karl stated, " I can only say that it is a very strong country, very " rugged, very hilly, and verj- woody ;'' and that, although, "by no means **equally so," his former description was "applicable, in some degree, " to all," General Gray, before the same Committee and on the same day, testified that ''the inhabitantsof the country, in general, were so very much " against us that they deserted the country wherever we came ; and we "could get no intelligence that we could possibly depend on;" that "that part of .\nierica where I have been, is the strongest country I ever " was in.