 although for wise purposes it is at present hid under a cloud. Perhaps in those situations that is all one can cling to, the belief that regardless of the outcome you are on the side of right, that whatever is happening is for a good purpose, even if that purpose is not clear. Just a few years earlier, Washington wrote a friend who tragically had lost a daughter, and he said, and I quote, "...the ways of providence being inscrutable, and the justice of it not to be scanned by the shallow eye of humanity."