"_'Uncle Sam's' hard bargains._--On Thursday afternoon of last week, about thirty sleighs, 'more or less'[55] loaded with the 'weak and wounded, sick and sore' of our armies on the frontiers, passed through this village for Greenbush. Never before have we beheld such a picture. Half-naked, half-frozen, and by their looks half-starved: some with and some without legs, others upon crutches, or supporting each other from falling, with their heads or arms bandaged, and the blood still oozing from their half drest wounds--their meagre, emaciated and ghastly appearance presented at once to the eye of the beholder, a striking picture _of the horrors of war_ and _neglect_."[56] In a paper published at Windsor, Vermont, in February, 1814, are found allusions to Secretary Armstrong and Josiah Quincy: "[_The following Extraordinary Advertisement is copied from the last (Windsor) Washingtonian._] "_SLAVES WANTED!_ "UNCLE SAM, a worthy gentleman Slaveholder (_of Virginia_) wants to purchase, at 124 dollars a head, 65,000 ('more or less') stout, able-bodied, full-blooded YANKEES, to aid Field Marshall, _the Duke of Newburgh_, in taking Possession of a Plantation he has lately bargained for, (_with himself_) if he can get it, IN CANADA. Apply at the truly fortunate Lottery Office;--or, elsewhere, if more convenient;--as every 'Office-holder or Citizen,' in the United States, is fully authorized and empowered to contract, as the acknowledged agent of his _Uncle_. "N. B.--Uncle Sam's _purse_ is rather low--but no matter. The _Duke_ will guarantee the pay--'FORCIBLY--_if he must_.'"[57] In the _Herkimer American_ of April 28, 1814, was printed the following: "_Economy._--A few days since, in a neighboring town _twelve_ United States' waggons were _repaired_, for which the blacksmith was paid _one thousand eight hundred dollars_ out of _Uncle Sam's_ purse. _Query._ How much is the usual cost of a new waggon?"[58] In or about May, 1814, the Keene _Sentinel_ printed the following: "_More Economy!_--Colonel Pickering in his Speech on the Loan Bill, stated, on direct information from two members of the former Congress, that a waggon started with 40 bushels of corn for the army--that the team of horses consumed 18 bushels on the way--reserved 18 to feed them on returning, and delivered 4 bushels, which must, at this rate, have cost _fifty dollars_ a bushel! "Everyone remembers the vinegar transported from Boston to Albany, which might have been procured _cheaper_ at the latter than the former place.