51 WGW, vol. 30, 6-15-1789. Note. Answer to the Address of the Governor and Council of North Carolina. “A difference of opinion on political points is not to be imputed to Freemen as a fault since it is to be presumed that they are all actuated by an equally laudable and sacred regard for the liberties of their Country. If the mind is so formed in different persons as to consider the same object to be somewhat different in its nature and consequences as it happens to be placed in different points of view; and if the oldest, the ablest, and the most virtuous Statesmen have often differed in judgment, as to the best forms of Government, we ought, indeed rather to rejoice that so much has been effected, than to regret that more could not all at once be accomplished.”
52 WGW, vol.11, 4-21-1778, to John Banister.
53 WGW, vol. 10, 12-17-1777.
54 Throughout this section, all of the references unless otherwise noted are to John Joseph Stoudt, Ordeal At Valley Forge (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1963.) Page numbers will simply be included in the text without footnote.
55 WGW, vol. 10, 12-20-1777
56 Stoudt, Ordeal, 3-10-1778, p. 176, 123, 176, 299, 250
57 Ibid., p. 250, 4-26-1778.
58 Ibid., p. 46.
59 Ibid., p. 66.
60 Ibid., p. 68.
61 Ibid., p. 133.
62 Ibid., p. 158.
63 Ibid., p. 225.
64 Ibid., p. 53.
65 Ibid., p. 49.
66 Ibid., p. 89.
67 Ibid., p. 101.
68 Ibid., p. 110.
69 Ibid., p.104, 156.
70 Ibid., p.121.
71 Ibid., p. 121.
72 Ibid., p. 30.
73 Ibid., p. 147.
74 Ibid., p. 45.
75 Ibid., p. 123, 134, 137, 190.
76 Ibid., p. 62.
77 Ibid., p. 137.
78 Ibid., p. 143.
79 Ibid., p. 216.
80 Ibid., p. 178, 181, 232.
81 Ibid., p. 188.
82 Ibid., p. 97, 67, 151, 39, 206, 235.
83 Ibid., p. 142.
84 Ibid., p.111, 268.
85 Ibid., p. 87.
86 Ibid., p. 115.
87 Ibid., p. 35.
88 Ibid., p. 136.
89 Ibid., p. 115.
90 Ibid., p. 31.
91 Ibid., p. 39.
92 Ibid., p. 40.
93 Ibid., p. 249.
94 Ibid., p. 45, 46, 241.
95 Ibid., p. 45.
96 Ibid., p. 124.
97 Ibid., p. 223.
98 Ibid., p. 140.
99 Ibid., p. 101.
100 Ibid., p. 116, 237.
