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the time when the National Government feels able and sees HI, 

 to render an act of justice long delayed. Ts there not money 

 enough in the treasury ? Is the presenl generation ungrate- 

 ful? Is patriotism dead? The chorus of a myriad voices from 

 victims that were murdered calls from out the grave to the 

 Fiftieth Congress for recognition, in commemoration of the 

 greatest suffering endured at any period in the war for 

 independence. 



In fact, history does not record an instance in which civilized 

 nations have been at war, when prisoners were treated with 

 such indignity and cruelty as England inflicted upon these 

 revolutionary captives on board her prison ships. It was only 

 a matter of so many days, or weeks, as to how long the 

 strongest constitution could survive. Barbarism furnishes 

 but few cases where the torture was more complete. 



In commemorating the name of General Sullivan on the 

 heights that overlook the site of the redoubt in Battle Pass, it 

 is at least a grateful reminiscence that during the remainder of 

 the war Sullivan did not meet with any more such experiences. 

 He was one of the six brigadier generals that were first 

 appointed by Congress at Philadelphia; he was Washington's 

 trusted friend ; lie fought in most of the battles under him, 

 was governor of his native State, New Hampshire, and had all 

 the honors conferred on him that the State could give. He 

 planned and executed the first direct act of hostility against 

 England by taking possession of the fort near Portsmouth, 

 imprisoning the garrison and securing one hundred barrels of 

 powder, fifteen cannon and a number of small arms. This was 

 four months before the battle of Lexington and Patrick 

 Henry's exploit in Virginia. In view of these facts the 

 appropriateness of this name for the picnic woods is obvious. 



