The Alpha and Omega of the Revolution

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Excerpt from The Alpha and Omega of the Revolution: An Address Delivered Before the Pennsylvania, Society of Sons of the Revolution On this peninsula Lafayette reported for duty in the Continental army, and the house is still standing, six miles below Doylestown, in which he first took his seat at the council board. Here, also, the gallant Count Pulaski, than whom the cause of independence had no more devoted supporter, laid his sword on the altar of Liberty. When the seven year's struggle was over, the cause of free government had won the day, and the weapons of war were "hung up as bruised monuments, " delegates assembled in the City of Philadelphia and, in the same room where the Declaration of Independence was formed, framed a Constitution that made and has preserved us a nation. These events, transpiring on this peninsula at such an important period in our history, suffice to make it holy ground and should invite young and old, from all parts of the Union, to come hither and drink in a new inspiration of patriotism. If we place a finger on the page of revolutionary history, and follow the tide of war from the firing of the first shot at Lexington, thence to Bunker Hill and the siege of Boston, down through the Atlantic seaboard states to Long Island, to New York Island, Fort Washington, through New Jersey and across the Delaware, behind whose sheltering waters the fagged-out Continentals sought safety, almost as fugitives, we shall find the campaign of 1776, so far, to have been a failure, and whatever of victory military critics may award the Continental army was of a negative character. This, however, was not because the patriots had not made a stubborn resistance, or their commander displayed great skill, - victory went with the strongest battalions. Washington exhibited consummate generalship in his retreat from Long Island and escape from the trap set for him on New York Island. The cloud of defeat, however, was not without its silver lining, although it could not be discerned by mortal eye. While the feeble army was melting away from fatigue, death, wounds and capture, its great commander was daily gathering new strength from the God of battles and would soon be called upon to display it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.