"Sam": or The history of mystery./ By C. W. Webber.

426 "SAM:" OR, THE HISTORY OF MYSTERY.
prince, who, by his royal will, would deprive us of every blessming of life, with all possible clemency.
We are domestic, we are industrious, we are infirm and
timid; we shall remain quietly at home, and not remove our
cattle, our corn, our forage, in hope that you will come, at
the head of your troops, in the full powers of health, discipline, and valor, and take charge of them yourselves. Behold
our wives and daughters, our flocks and herds, our goods and
chattels, are they not at the mercy of our Lord the King,
and of his Lieutenant-General, member of the House of Commons, and Governor of Fort William, in North Britain?
A. B.
C. D.
B. F., ETC., ETC., ETC.
Saratoga, 10oth July, 1777.
"Sam" makes condescenuing proposals for a compromise with
his haughty master, General Burgoyne, and asks him in
philanthropical spirit, to be "as mild as he can!"
Proposal for an exchange of General Burgoyne. Ascribed
to his Excellency William Livingston,.q., Governor of tze
Sate of New Jersey.
Should the report of General Burgoyne having infringed
the capitulation, between Major General Gates and himself,
prove to be true, our superiors will doubtless take proper
care to prevent his reaping any benefit from it; and should
he be detained as a prisoner, for his infraction of any of the
articles, I would humbly propose to exchange him, in such a
manner as will, at the same time, flatter his vanity and redound to the greatest emolument to America. To evince
the reasonableness of my proposal, I would observe, that by
the same parity of reason that a general is exchanged for a
general, a colonel for a colonel, and so on with respect to
other officers, mutually of equal rank, we ought to have for
one and the same gentleman who shall happen to hold both
these offices, both a general and a colonel. This will appear
evident from the consideration that those exchanges are
never regulated by viewing the persons exchanged in the
light of men, but as officers; since otherwise, a colonel might
as well be exchanged for a sergeant as for an officer of his