The books say that Washington used every art in his power to deceive Clinton.

He wrote letters containing the barefaced lie that he intended to attack New York when he intended to attack Cornwallis.

It was not a mere white lie, for he intended to deceive.

We don't regard Washington as a liar, and he was not a liar in any proper sense of the word.

All the high-toned generals on both sides in the present war do not hesitate to deceive the enemy, for it is a part of their duty to do so.