“The supplicating tears of the women and moving petitions of the men,” Washington cried out, “melt me into such deadly sorrow that I solemnly declare, if I know my own mind, I could offer myself a willing sacrifice to the butchering enemy provided that would contribute to the peoples’ ease.… If bleeding, dying! would glut their insatiate revenge, I would be a willing offering to savage fury, and die by inches to save a people!”
The writen word of a man who only had an elementary school education.
