Excerpt from Washington or American Independence: First Campaign;; A Drama in Four Acts Must thou succumb without a stroke for life? Shall I, whom thou hast bounteously fed, Stand coldly by and see thee chained? Shall all Reproach thy patriots? Disdain thy power, And, rather than defend themselves, be slaves? Unhappy land, like an indulgent mother, Thou hast children upreared, enriched and blest, And yet, in this thy last extremity, When thou art racked. Tormented, ravished, slain, They have no heart to feel thy woes, defend Like sons, - thy cause. But idly stand, or flee. 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.