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3. But It was not fo with the valiant men of Columbia, who fought the battles of the great Sanhedrim! they were poorly clad, and many of them walked barefooted to the place* of their encampment; and the frozen earth \\as flained with the blood of the men of war!

4. Amongd the trees of the foreft, they pitched their tents! t the fierce bowlings of the winter (torm chafed away their repofe! they were like unto a (hip in a troubled fea! they were toffed in their minds as a leaf dri- ven to and fro by contending currents!

5. Neverthelefs, the fpirit of oppofition remained firm within them! the words of the great Sanhedrim were as a law written in their inward parts! they had tafled of the waters of flrife, and the thoughts of fubmis- fion were driven far away, even as the chaff is driven from the threfhing floor of the hus- bandman!


 * Valley Forge, f Huts,