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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 4: the call for troops. (search)
ote which I beg leave to transcribe for the benefit of some of my younger readers if not most of the older ones:-- Mr. James Ross, of Pittsburg, was Washington's agent for the sale of his lands in Pennsylvania. He came to Philadelphia to settle h, he found all the ladies — the Custises, Lewises, Mrs. Washington, and others in the parlor, obviously in great alarm. Mr. Ross described them as gathered together in the middle of the room like a flock of partridges in a field when a hawk is in the neighborhood. Very soon the President entered and shook hands with Mr. Ross, but looked dark and lowering. They went in to breakfast, and after a little while the Secretary of War came in and said to Washington: Have you seen Randolph's pamphlet?st down upon the table with all his strength, and with a violence which made the cups and plates start from their places. Ross said he felt infinitely relieved; for he feared that something in his own conduct had occasioned the blackness of the Pres