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第65章

"As he rose like a rocket, he would fall like a stick," is a metaphor which I applied to Mr.Deane, in the first piece which Ipublished respecting him, and he has exactly fulfilled the description.The credit he so unjustly obtained from the public, he lost in almost as short a time.The delusion perished as it fell, and he soon saw himself stripped of popular support.His more intimate acquaintances began to doubt, and to desert him long before he left America, and at his departure, he saw himself the object of general suspicion.When he arrived in France, he endeavored to effect by treason what he had failed to accomplish by fraud.His plans, schemes and projects, together with his expectation of being sent to Holland to negotiate a loan of money, had all miscarried.He then began traducing and accusing America of every crime, which could injure her reputation."That she was a ruined country; that she only meant to make a tool of France, to get what money she could out of her, and then to leave her and accommodate with Britain." Of all which and much more, Colonel Laurens and myself, when in France, informed Dr.Franklin, who had not before heard of it.And to complete the character of traitor, he has, by letters to his country since, some of which, in his own handwriting, are now in the possession of Congress, used every expression and argument in his power, to injure the reputation of France, and to advise America to renounce her alliance, and surrender up her independence.* Thus in France he abuses America, and in his letters to America he abuses France; and is endeavoring to create disunion between two countries, by the same arts of double-dealing by which he caused dissensions among the commissioners in Paris, and distractions in America.But his life has been fraud, and his character has been that of a plodding, plotting, cringing mercenary, capable of any disguise that suited his purpose.His final detection has very happily cleared up those mistakes, and removed that uneasiness, which his unprincipled conduct occasioned.Every one now sees him in the same light; for towards friends or enemies he acted with the same deception and injustice, and his name, like that of Arnold, ought now to be forgotten among us.As this is the first time that I have mentioned him since my return from France, it is my intention that it shall be the last.From this digression, which for several reasons I thought necessary to give, I now proceed to the purport of my address.

* Mr.William Marshall, of this city [Philadelphia], formerly a pilot, who had been taken at sea and carried to England, and got from thence to France, brought over letters from Mr.Deane to America, one of which was directed to "Robert Morris, Esq." Mr.Morris sent it unopened to Congress, and advised Mr.Marshall to deliver the others there, which he did.The letters were of the same purport with those which have been already published under the signature of S.

Deane, to which they had frequent reference.I consider the war of America against Britain as the country's war, the public's war, or the war of the people in their own behalf, for the security of their natural rights, and the protection of their own property.It is not the war of Congress, the war of the assemblies, or the war of government in any line whatever.The country first, by mutual compact, resolved to defend their rights and maintain their independence, at the hazard of their lives and fortunes; they elected their representatives, by whom they appointed their members of Congress, and said, act you for us, and we will support you.This is the true ground and principle of the war on the part of America, and, consequently, there remains nothing to do, but for every one to fulfil his obligation.

It was next to impossible that a new country, engaged in a new undertaking, could set off systematically right at first.She saw not the extent of the struggle that she was involved in, neither could she avoid the beginning.She supposed every step that she took, and every resolution which she formed, would bring her enemy to reason and close the contest.Those failing, she was forced into new measures;and these, like the former, being fitted to her expectations, and failing in their turn, left her continually unprovided, and without system.The enemy, likewise, was induced to prosecute the war, from the temporary expedients we adopted for carrying it on.We were continually expecting to see their credit exhausted, and they were looking to see our currency fail; and thus, between their watching us, and we them, the hopes of both have been deceived, and the childishness of the expectation has served to increase the expense.

Yet who, through this wilderness of error, has been to blame?

Where is the man who can say the fault, in part, has not been his?

They were the natural, unavoidable errors of the day.They were the errors of a whole country, which nothing but experience could detect and time remove.Neither could the circumstances of America admit of system, till either the paper currency was fixed or laid aside.No calculation of a finance could be made on a medium failing without reason, and fluctuating without rule.

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