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Mount Vernon, Knox County, Ohio (Ohio, United States) (search for this): article 9
g the interior of the country with fire and sword, carrying desolation in their train — plundering, burning, and murdering. While Washington was at his headquarters in the year 1781, he learned that the enemy had made a raid up the Potomac to Mount Vernon, and demanded supplies from his relative, who had been left in charge of his effects; and, to his indignation, that this person, to save his houses from the torch, his plantation from ruins and his slaves from capture, had paid the tribute reqgent, who thus compromised his honor, has been preserved, and is to be found in the volumes of his correspondence. It is pertinent to the present crisis, and we reproduce it as worthy of consideration and imitation: To Lund Washington, at Mount Vernon. New Windsor, 30th April, 1781. Dear Lund: I am very sorry to hear of your loss I am a little sorry to hear of my own; but that which gives me most concern is, that you should so on board the enemy's vessels and furnish them with refre
Lund Washington (search for this): article 9
to the enemy. Pending the Revolutionary war, the enemies of our ancestors were alike successful in penetrating the interior of the country with fire and sword, carrying desolation in their train — plundering, burning, and murdering. While Washington was at his headquarters in the year 1781, he learned that the enemy had made a raid up the Potomac to Mount Vernon, and demanded supplies from his relative, who had been left in charge of his effects; and, to his indignation, that this person, nistered to the urgent, who thus compromised his honor, has been preserved, and is to be found in the volumes of his correspondence. It is pertinent to the present crisis, and we reproduce it as worthy of consideration and imitation: To Lund Washington, at Mount Vernon. New Windsor, 30th April, 1781. Dear Lund: I am very sorry to hear of your loss I am a little sorry to hear of my own; but that which gives me most concern is, that you should so on board the enemy's vessels and furn
Lund (search for this): article 9
o his indignation, that this person, to save his houses from the torch, his plantation from ruins and his slaves from capture, had paid the tribute required. The rebuke which he administered to the urgent, who thus compromised his honor, has been preserved, and is to be found in the volumes of his correspondence. It is pertinent to the present crisis, and we reproduce it as worthy of consideration and imitation: To Lund Washington, at Mount Vernon. New Windsor, 30th April, 1781. Dear Lund: I am very sorry to hear of your loss I am a little sorry to hear of my own; but that which gives me most concern is, that you should so on board the enemy's vessels and furnish them with refreshments. It would have been a less painful circumstance to me to have heard that, in consequence of your non compliance with their request, they had burns my house and laid the plantation in ruins. You ought to have considered yourself as my representative, and should have reflected on the bad exa
April 30th, 1781 AD (search for this): article 9
s effects; and, to his indignation, that this person, to save his houses from the torch, his plantation from ruins and his slaves from capture, had paid the tribute required. The rebuke which he administered to the urgent, who thus compromised his honor, has been preserved, and is to be found in the volumes of his correspondence. It is pertinent to the present crisis, and we reproduce it as worthy of consideration and imitation: To Lund Washington, at Mount Vernon. New Windsor, 30th April, 1781. Dear Lund: I am very sorry to hear of your loss I am a little sorry to hear of my own; but that which gives me most concern is, that you should so on board the enemy's vessels and furnish them with refreshments. It would have been a less painful circumstance to me to have heard that, in consequence of your non compliance with their request, they had burns my house and laid the plantation in ruins. You ought to have considered yourself as my representative, and should have reflec
1781 AD (search for this): article 9
Pay no tribute to the enemy. Pending the Revolutionary war, the enemies of our ancestors were alike successful in penetrating the interior of the country with fire and sword, carrying desolation in their train — plundering, burning, and murdering. While Washington was at his headquarters in the year 1781, he learned that the enemy had made a raid up the Potomac to Mount Vernon, and demanded supplies from his relative, who had been left in charge of his effects; and, to his indignation, that this person, to save his houses from the torch, his plantation from ruins and his slaves from capture, had paid the tribute required. The rebuke which he administered to the urgent, who thus compromised his honor, has been preserved, and is to be found in the volumes of his correspondence. It is pertinent to the present crisis, and we reproduce it as worthy of consideration and imitation: To Lund Washington, at Mount Vernon. New Windsor, 30th April, 1781. Dear Lund: I am very so