Note 62 — Chapter III
Reading edition
Much ridicule was heaped on the President, who, as Commander-in-chief, with his Cabinet, was watching the battle, and his orders given as—
"Fly, Monroe, fly! Run, Armstrong, run! Were the last words of Madison!"
Nor was Dolly exempt. Her departure from Washington was described in the jingle beginning—
"Sister Cutts, and Cutts and I And Cutts's children three, Will fill the coach—and you must ride On horseback after we."