futility of his efforts, 261, 262;
his increasing alarm at social demoralization, 263;
effect of his exertions, 264;
conceals his doubts of the French, 264;
watches New York, 264;
keeps dreading an English campaign, 265;
labors with Congress to form a navy, 266;
plans expedition to chastise Indians, 266;
realizes that things are at a standstill in the North, 267;
sees danger to lie in the South, but determines to remain himself near New York, 267;