'I'll Try, Sir'

There was one thing that much aided me in renewing and recreating the stalwart soldier of the niagara frontier, the man of true and simple energy. It was the recollection of those memorable words of his, i'll try, sir, spoken on the very verge of a desperate and heroic enterprise. Hardihood, comprehending all perils and encountering all if in our country, valor were rewarded by heraldic honor. This phrase, which it seems so easy to speak, but which only he with such a task of danger and glory before him has ever spoken,. would be the best and fittest of all mottoes for the general's shield of arms.