And, Sir, I do not hesitate to confess that, " if I could, by any manoeuvre, remove an enemy " from a very advantageous position, without hazard- " ing the consequences of an attack, where the point "to be carried was not adequate to the loss of men to " be expected from the enterprise, I should certainly " adopt that cautionary conduct, in the hopes of " meeting my adversary upon more equal terms." '

The careful student of that portion of the history of our own country which relates to the Campaign in Westchester-county, in 1776, will arise from the examination of it with the words on his lips which the Apostle Paul employed, in another connection : " God " hath chosen the foolish things of the world to con- " found the wise, and God hath chosen the weake "things of the world, to confound the mighty things, " and vile things of the world, and things which are "despised, hath God chosen, and things which are " not, to bring to nought things that are." 2

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1 Speech of General Howe before the Committee of the House of Commons, April 29, 1779 -- Almon's Parliamentary Register, Fifth Session, Fourteenth Parliament of Great Britain, xii., 324.

See, also, The Narrative of Sir William Howe, 6, 7.

2 The Newe Testament, Genqgj^n Version, Edit. London : 1595, 1 Corinthians, i., 27, 28,

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