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The Daily Dispatch: December 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], Pay no tribute to the enemy. (search)
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:
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