On arriving near his camp, we found his cannon mounted, his troops under arms, and so prepared at every point to receive us, that we have been compelled to march back like a parcel of fools, without injuring our enemy!'" "I hope the British did not find out, before they left Philadelphia, who had given the information to the Americans, and take vengeance on her ?" said Walter.
"No," replied his mother, "fearing that, she had begged Lieutenant Craig to keep her secret; which he did; and so it has happened that her good deed finds no mention in the histories of that time and is recorded only by well authenticated tradition." "So all the Quakers were not Tories ?" remarked Walter in a satisfied yet half inquiring tone.
"Oh, no indeed!" replied his mother, "there were ardent patriots among them, as among people of other denominations.

Nathaniel Green--after Washington one of our best and greatest generals--was of Quaker family, and I have heard that when his mother found he was not to be persuaded to refrain from taking an active part in the struggle for freedom, she said to him, 'Well, Nathaniel, if thee must fight, let me never hear of thee having a wound in thy back!'" "Ah, she must have been brave and patriotic," laughed Walter.

"I doubt if she was so very sorry that her son was determined to fight for the freedom of his country." "No," said Rosie, "I don't believe she was, and I don't see how she could help feeling proud of him--so bright, brave, talented, and patriotic as he showed himself to be all through the war." "Yes," said Lulu, "and I don't think he has had half the honors he deserved, though at West Point we saw a cannon with an inscription on it saying it had been taken from the British army and presented by Congress to Major-General Green as a monument of their high sense of his services in the revolutionary war." "Weren't the Tories very bad men, Grandma Elsie ?" asked Grace.
"Not all of them, my dear," replied Mrs.Travilla, smiling lovingly into the sweet, though grave and earnest, little face; "some were really conscientiously opposed to war, even when waged for freedom from unbearable tyranny and oppression, but were disposed to be merely inactive witnesses of the struggle, some of them desiring the success of the patriots, others that of the king's troops; then there was another set who, while professing neutrality, secretly aided the British, betraying the patriots into their hands.
"Such were Carlisle and Roberts, Quakers of that time, living in Philadelphia.

While the British were in possession of the city those two men were employed as secret agents in detecting foes to the government, and by their secret information caused many patriots to be arrested and thrown into prison.

Lossing tells us that Carlisle, wearing the meek garb and deportment of a Quaker, was at heart a Torquemada." "And who was Torquemada, mamma ?" queried Walter.
"A Dominican monk of Spain, who lived in the times of Ferdinand and Isabella, and was by them appointed inquisitor-general.