17761972

Thomson:
[reading Washington's letter] The situation is most desperate at the New Jersey training ground in New Brunswick, where every able bodied whore in the co... "WHORE?"... in the colonies has assembled. There are constant reports of drunkenness, desertion, foul language, naked bathing in the Raritan river, and an epidemic of the "French disease." I have placed this town off limits to all military personnel with the exception of officers. I beseech the congress to dispatch the War Committee to this place, in the hope of restoring some of the order and discipline we need to survive. Your obedient...

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Thomson:
G. Washington.

Col. Thomas McKean:
That man would depress a hyena.

Hancock:
Well, Mr. Adams, you're chairman of the war committee. Do you feel up to whoring, drinking, deserting, and New Brunswick?

Rev. John Witherspoon:
There must be some mistake, I have an aunt who lives in New Brunswick.

John Dickinson:
You must tell her to keep up the good work.