contributions, forced contributions, demanded and expected, tliere could not liave been much sympathy between the Army and the body of the people ; and, surely, in that condition of the popular feeling, the Army can scarcely be said, in truth, to have been fighting for the cause of the country, at large, but, on the contrary, as Armies have always fought, at the expense of the body of the people, of the working-bees of the hive, for the promotion, only, of the private ends and the private aims and the private interests of an individual or of a family or of a faction or of a party, neither of them a producer nor anything else than a cumbrance and a burden on those who have labored.

It will be seen, from General Washington's anxiety concerning his supplies and concerning the lines of communication between the Army and the country, and from other evidence, that he was becoming convinced that the enemy intended to take NewRochelle for the base of his proposed operations, and, from that place, hy way of the White Plains, to form his command, in a line, to the Hudson-river,' at Tarrytown -- a plan of operations, as we have already stated,- which was formed, after due consideration, before General Howe had left the City of New York, as will have been seen in the disposition of the Phoenix, the Roebuck, and the Tartar, oft' Tarrytown, to cover the objective point, the right of the proposed new line, of the Army,^ and in the selection of Mill's-creek, or New Rochelle-harbor, as the base of his operations, the left of the proposed line,* and, because of that new-born conviction, as early as noon, on the