I am this instant informed, that a second address to the officers,
distinguished No. 2, is thrown into circulation. The contents evidently
prove, that the author is in, or near, camp; and that the following
words, erased in the second page of this letter, ought not to have met
with this treatment, viz.--“By others, that it is the illegitimate
offspring of a person in the army.”
[19] The words, “By others, that it is the illegitimate offspring of
a person in the army,” which came in here, are obliterated in the
original, but were restored by Washington in the _postscript_.