e, he declared, if we who had begun the struggle should go down
into the Valley of Death, so that we left behind, for those who were to
come, a land free from misrule and the oppression of tyrants.

Now, strange as it may seem, having once arrived in Cambridge I forgot
how bitterly hunger and thirst had assailed me during the four and
twenty hours just past, until my father was come to an end of his loving
converse, when suddenly my desire for food and water returned like a
flood, and I cried as if in pain.

One would have thought the dear man had done me some grievous wrong by
not remembering that I might stand in need of refreshment, so many were
the words of reproach which he addressed to himself while leading me to
where I speedily found all that could be desired.

In going through this encampment it seemed that already had we of the
colonies gathered a vast army, yet my father told me there were less
than five thousand men then in Cambridge; but promised that they would
be speedily increased in numbers as the days went by.

"It is but the beginning," he said, "already are those who favor the
Cause marching toward this place as rapidly as may be, though as yet we
have no real military head. The Provincial Congress has voted to raise
an army of thirteen thousand six hundred men. Word has been sent out
both by the Congress and Committee of Safety to other colonies, asking
them to send all the troops they can spare, and Doctor Warren has
written a stirring appeal, as you shall read, for I have made of it a
copy."

Having said this he took from his pocket a folded paper which he gave to
me, and I can set down exactly what was written upon it, for I have the
document before me even to this day. It is as follows:

"In Congress at Watertown, April 30th, 1775.

"_Gentlemen_,--The barbarous Murders of our innocent
Brethren on Wednesday the 19th Instant, has made it
absolutely necessary that we immediately raise an army to
defend our Wives and our Children from the butchering Hands
of an inhuman Soldiery, who, incensed at the obstacles they
meet with in their bloody progress, and enraged at being
repulsed from the Field of Slaughter, will, without the
least doubt take the first Opportunity in their Power to
ravage this devoted Country with Fire and Sword. We conjure
you, therefore, that you give all Assistance possible in
raising an Army. Our all is