...pathetic language to attempt a description of these people's distresses. But what can I do ? . . . The supplicating tears of the women and moving petitions...myself a willing sacrifice to the butchering enemy, provided that would contribute to the people's ease." He had a difficult post to fill. A people in...

...were beginning to retreat, in droves of fifties, till the Blue Ridge became the frontier of Virginia. "The supplicating tears of the women and moving petitions of the men," wrote Washington, " melt me into such deadly sorrow, that, for the people's ease, I could offer myself...

...watchful eye over our negro slaves." In one of his letters, Washington says : " The (supplicating tears of women and moving petitions of the men, melt me into such deadly sorrow, that for the people's ease, I could offer myself a willing sacrifice to the treacherous enemy." The village...

...beginning to retreat, in droves of fifties, till the Blue Ridge became the frontier of Virginia. " The supplicating tears of the women and moving petitions of the men," wrote Washington, " melt me into such deadly sorrow, that, for the people's ease, I could offer myself...

...abandoning their dwellings, and flying with the utmost precipitation." ' Six days later he writes : " The supplicating tears of the women, and moving petitions...myself a willing sacrifice to the butchering enemy, provided that would contribute to the people's ease." On the 24th he writes : " The deplorable situation...

...abandoning their dwellings, and flying with the utmost precipitation." ' Six days later he writes : " The supplicating tears of the women, and moving petitions...myself a willing sacrifice to the butchering enemy, provided that would contribute to the people's ease." On the 24th he writes: " The deplorable situation...

...their sufferings, without having it in my power to give them further relief than uncertain promises. The supplicating tears of the women and moving petitions...sorrow, that I solemnly declare, if I know my own mind, that I could offer myself a willing sacrifice to the butchering enemy, provided that would contribute...

...and wretchedness vividly before us: "The supplicating tears of the women," he writes to Dinwiddie, " and moving petitions of the men, melt me into such...myself a willing sacrifice to the butchering enemy, provided that would contribute to the people's ease." There are here revealed not only the miseries...

...is a famous passage which brings all this suffering and wretchedness vividly before us. He says : " The supplicating tears of the women, and moving petitions...myself a willing -sacrifice to the butchering enemy, provided that would contribute to the people's ease." The campaign of 1755, closed by the failure of...

...their sufferings, without having it in my power to give them further relief than uncertain promises. The supplicating tears of the women and moving petitions...sorrow, that I solemnly declare, if I know my own mind, that I could offer myself a willing sacrifice to the butchering enemy, provided that would contribute...