The magazine of history with notes and queries, Vol. II, No. 6, December 1905Various
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The magazine of history with notes and queries, Vol. II, No. 6, December 1905
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often noticed by the General, with the greatest satisfaction, during
the march to this place; and speaks in strong language, the goodness
of the Major’s heart. A continuation of the same attention, with every
precaution for the safety of those unhappy instruments of designing
men, is warmly recommended, till they shall be delivered up to the
Marshal of the state of Pennsylvania. To every individual of the
Cavalry, whom the General has had the honour to command, he now bids
an affectionate farewell; and sincerely wishes them every domestic
happiness.
ANTHONY W. WHITE,
_Brig. Gen. commanding the Cavalry
ordered on the western Expedition_.
(FROM CONTEMPORARY PRINTS)
NEW BRUNSWICK, _Feb. 3, 1795_.
On Monday, the 26th, seventy-five officers of the New Jersey cavalry,
met in this city and dined together at the White Hall Tavern, His
Excellency the Governor and suite honored them with their company at
dinner, after which fifteen toasts were drank. The next day all the
officers waited on General White, delivered the following address to
him, and partook of a cold collation at his house.
SIR.
With unfeigned satisfaction, we embrace this occasion, the earliest
we have been able to command, to make our warmest acknowledgements to
you for the very polite and friendly sentiment conveyed to us in your
last cavalry orders. This public testimony of your partiality to us
and interest in our happiness, has been fully evinced in many trying
circumstances. Raw and undisciplined as we were, to have met the
approbation of one, so complete in military science, cannot but vastly
enhance the pleasing sensations we derive, from having lent a willing
aid in support of our happy constitution. If we have acted with a
degree of reputation to ourselves; if we have rendered service to our
country, to you sir, are we much indebted for both these advantages.
Your activity, combined with an extensive knowledge of your important
duties, have at all times been eminently conspicuous; your zeal
for the public good, and an affectionate regard for the honor and
happiness of the New Jersey cavalry, have been too well noticed and
too sincerely approved, ever to be effaced from our remembrance. To
see the man, who has spent years in a continued struggle for freedom,
and bled in asserting our dearest rights, again at the call of his
country, step forward with that ardent enthusiasm which true liberty
ever inspires, did not fail to command our grateful admiration and
render us emulous of such virtue. May that sacred flame of liberty
which you have been so instrumental in lighting up and supporting,
long burn bright in this new world and extend its genial influence
from continent to continent, until tyranny shall disappear and the
whole world would be emancipated.
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