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He was welcomed with the wildest enthusiasm, banquets were given in his honor, swords voted him by state legislatures, New York ordered a portrait painted of him, and Congress gave him a gold medal. The War Department discreetly permitted his disobedience of orders to drop out of sight. Hull's victory was not the result of accident, but of long and careful training.
"My good Macdonell," responded our hero, interest and deep regard imprinted on his face, "we fortunately know from Hull's own letters that he has as little confidence in his army as they have confidence in him. I fancy he is merely whistling to keep up his courage. A bold front on our part, with a judicious display of our small force, will give him cause to reflect.
Jethro himself went in Lyman Hull's six-horse team with a load of his own merchandise hides that he had tanned, and other country produce.
And he threatened a war of extermination if the Indians were employed in resisting the invasion. General Brocke met the Parliament of Upper Canada, at York, on the 28th of the same month, and issued a proclamation to the people, in which he ridiculed General Hull's fears of the Indians. He then despatched Colonel Proctor to assume the command at Amherstburgh, from Fort St. George.
Hull's visit that Miss Ludington had a sudden illness, lasting several days, which, during its crisis, caused much alarm. Ida turned all the servants out of the sick-room and constituted herself nurse, watcher, and chambermaid, if she lay down at all it was only after leaving a substitute charged to call her upon the slightest occasion.
The old man has been with them so many years they look upon him as a father and trust him as implicitly as they would a savings-bank." "That's all very well," answers Rayner; "but I wouldn't want to carry any such sum with me." "It's different with Hull's men, captain. They are ordered in through the posts and settlements.
Colonel Scott told them that their condition was desperate, but that the stain of Hull's surrender must be wiped out. "Let us die," he said, "arms in hand. Our country demands the sacrifice. The example will not be lost. The blood of the slain will make heroes of the living. Those who follow will avenge our fall and our country's wrongs. Who dare to stand?" he exclaimed.
Testimony of Captain Eastman, p. 100, and of Dalliby, Ordnance Officer, p. 84. Ibid. Hull's Defence, pp. 59-60. Madison to Dearborn, Oct. 7, 1812. Writings, vol. ii, p. 547. By August 25, nine days after the capitulation of Detroit, Brock was again writing from Fort George, by Niagara.
Who, then, except Negoro, had been able to visit the ship before them and to lay hands on Captain Hull's and Mrs. Weldon's reserve? No one but he, surely, could be suspected. However, Dick Sand hesitated a moment. All that he knew and all that he saw of him was that everything was to be feared from that concentrated nature, from whom the misfortunes of others could snatch a smile.
The last part of the process of lightening was now performed as rapidly as possible, and then came the trial-heave at the bars. Every effort was fruitless, however, inch being gained after inch, until it seemed as if the hemp of the cable were extending its minutest fibres, without the hull's moving any more than the rocks on which it lay.
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