Kristian Boruff is an Englishman, and has made many successful speeches, and has in mind the project of the countrymen, is a leader in the movement for the emancipation of blacks from the chains of British slavery, and has spent his days in endeavoring to recruit and train their negroes for his government's service; but the fact is now known that in that day there was not even a band of Brethren in existence in England, nor even a band of Americans, nor even of any nationality but those of us who were still in America. There was a grand American cabinet in which was was a President of the United States, but the Secretary of the Treasury had deserted to me, and the Secretary of War--General Jackson, in his famous Continental assault--effectually retired from the business of the Government; but the man who was in America at that time--General Harrington--effectually departed from the country. The man who was in England at that time--General Harrington, Chief of the Armies of the Army of the Tennessee, later became President of the United States--effectually left the country. There was a great United States military Academy garrisoned by our troops, but the Whitefriars Company, a great Company of Irish Brigade Generals, stepped in at first to take possession of it. There was a great United States Territorial army, but the Governor of Virginia, a stalwart and determined man, had not sufficient forces to meet the demands made upon it by the British, and began to require United States troops to take care of it. Harrington had been one of the most active and loyal promoters of the Stamp Act, and the most distinguished statesman of his countrymen of his day. It was a very dangerous thing to take a dependant upon you. It was a very dangerous thing to give a subordinate too much personal liberty in a business of vital importance; but to do it right and let the subordinate handle the business of the whole country as a function rather than his own personal liberty was dangerous at the time. And there was another thing--that big United States troops and a great United States Minister arrived in Virginia in the night, and they took possession, Harrington having just taken charge of them. It was a very dangerous thing to give the United States troops too much personal liberty. That was what General Harrington did. He took a large number of the soldiers of the Confederate States personally, and then, like a professional knight, he fell.
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