It was, perhaps, his most remarkable gift, and while he controlled the present he studied the future.

Outside of the operations of armies, and the plans of campaign, he saw, as the war progressed, that the really fatal perils were involved in the political system.

At the beginning of the Revolution there was no organization outside the local state governments.

Congress voted and resolved in favor of anything that seemed proper, and the States responded to their appeal.

In the first flush of revolution, and the first excitement of freedom, this was all very well.