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Footnote 1:
In all probability that bullet saved Quebec. Had Arnold not been
disabled, his energy and daring would have successfully carried
through the attack on the second barricade.
All his subsequent history shows this.
The attack on Quebec failed from four causes: the extraordinary
inclemency of the weather, the death of Montgomery, the precipitate
retreat by order of Lieut.-Col. Campbell, who was next in rank, and
the disabling of Arnold.
The first was contributory only, and the second would not have been
conclusive but for Campbell—an officer of whose subsequent career
absolutely nothing appears of record.
The fourth was the deciding blow. Even Morgan lacked the decision
which would have led Arnold to carry the (second) barricade at all
hazards—and that carried, the third must have fallen and with it the
city. Had Arnold so much as suspected Morgan’s inaction, it is
certain he would have remained in the field, and personally directed
the assault in which he could not join.
It was his first and last failure. Valcour Island, Saratoga,
Ridgefield—all exhibit the vigor of him of whom Mr. Codman justly
remarks: “Arnold, with the exception of Ethan Allen, seems beyond all
others, to have understood the value of rapid action at the beginning
of (he might have said, throughout) a war.—ED.
Footnote 2:
The official reply to the governor’s message expresses this shrewd
inference in prose thus: “But we hope Great Brittaine & the other
Powers of Europe may mediate and divert the War with which we are
alarm’d & conclude it in a happy and lasting Peace, and this we
believe in as much as your Excell^y doth not mention in your Speech
that the advice you rec^d in the last ships was from the ministry of
Great Brittaine who this House apprehends would have sent forward
their Directions had they conceived any immediate Danger of a War.”
Footnote 3:
Polls and Estates.
Footnote 4:
December 3, 1730, the House passed acts for raising £6000 for the
repair of Fort William and Mary and for building a state house, and
for removing three of the courts of general quarter sessions of the
peace and the inferior courts of common pleas from Portsmouth to
Exeter, Hampton, and Dover. The same day the governor in council
approved the act for removing the courts, but no action was taken on
the money bill.
Footnote 5:
The same day, March 10, the governor, in anger, dissolved the
assembly, intending thereby “to give his Maj^{ties} good subjects an
opportunity of sending such to represent them in the next Assembly as
will do all in their Power to retrieve the Injustice you have
practiced in not paying the Publick Debts; and those that will
promote peace & a good agreem^t amongst all Branches of the
Legislature.”
Footnote 6:
This refers to the disputed boundary between New Hampshire and
Massachusetts, which had been in controversy for many years, and was
then in an acute stage. See the governor’s message, _ante_.
Footnote 7:
Capt. John Rindge was appointed by the House to be agent of the
province to present the boundary line controversy to the home
government in England, but the appointment was not recognized by the
council.
Footnote 8:
Anthony Walton White, Major and Aide-de-Camp to General Washington,
October, 1775; Lieutenant-Colonel Third Battalion, First
Establishment, February 9, 1776; Lieutenant-Colonel Fourth Regiment
Light Dragoons, Continental Army, February 13, 1777; (this regiment
appears to have performed its services mostly in the South, where the
commanding officer achieved a national reputation as a brilliant
cavalry leader); Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant First Regiment,
Dragoons, December 10, 1779; Colonel, February 16, 1780.—_Official
Register, N. J. in the Revn._ Stryker.
Footnote 9:
Mrs. Lamb, in her “History of the City of New-York,” gives an account
of the grand procession three days before the adoption of the Federal
Constitution by New York, July 23, 1788 (the State Convention did not
adopt it till July 26): “Mounted on a fine gray horse, elegantly
caparisoned, and led by two negroes in oriental costume, Anthony
Walton White bore the arms of the United States in sculpture,
preceding the Society of the Cincinnati, in full uniform.”
Footnote 10:
The insignia is that once owned by Kosciuszko, who exchanged his own
with Gen. White, on the occasion of his return to the United States
in 1798. Thus there is now in the possession of Mr. Evans the
identical badge which was worn by the brave Pole on the battlefields
of Poland in 1794, where as history tells us he rivalled Washington
in his strategy and intrepidity, though alas, not in the ultimate
success of his patriotic cause.
Footnote 11:
The Montgolfiers and François Blanchard were then making aeronautics
the fashionable wonder of the day, and the latter, with Dr. John
Jeffries, of Boston, had just made the first crossing of the Channel
to France, in a balloon.
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