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object anr. purposes were Litter ly infamous, Had lie succeeded by tilt
desecration of the honorable uses of passes and Hags of truce, his name
would have been held in everlasting execration. In bis ih.ilure, the
infant republic escaped the dagger with which he was feeling for its
heart, ai'd the crime was drowned in tear'; for his untimely end.
His youth and bcituty. his skill with pen and pencil, hid effervescing
ipirils and magnetic disposition, the brightness of his life, tlie eahr
coera^e in the gloom of his death, bis early love and disappointment,
and the image or bis lost Ilonora hid in hi-? month when captmeo
in Canada wilIi the exclamation, 11 That saved, I care not for the loss
of nil the re;',"' and nestling hi his bo-oni when he was slain,
~ Uiro ended liiel with a halo Ot poetry and pity whicil llave secured for
him wb;-t be mast sought and could never have won in battles and sieves
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— a fan:-; and reeo guidon which have outlived that of all the generals
u r. rJ er v h o a: he s er ved r
Are kinys only ^o'teful, and do republics forget ? Is fame a travesty,
and the jud^ii-ent of mankind a farcer' America had a parallel case
in Cv-o-.ir. Kathi-.n. liaie, Of the same age as Andre, he graduated
at Yriie cobage with hiyh honors, enlisted in the patriot cause at the
be^iroiirg of the contest, and secured the love and confidence of ail
about Lim. When none else would go on a most important and
perilous mission, he volunteered, and was captured by the 1 British,
While An ere received every kind a css, courtesy and attention, and was
fed from Washington’s table, ITaie was thrust into a noisome dungeon
[n the suyar-house. While An the was tried by a board of officers and
bar] ait: pie time a ad every facility for defence, 11 ale was summarily
s.jrdtjred to execution the nevt morning. While Andre’s last wishes
roid bequest.: were sacred !y followed, the infamous Cunningham tore
from Hale hi'; let ton to his mother and sister, and asked him what
he bed to
“ All I 3aoe to say,'' v-s.’ Hale's reply, ,c is that T regret 1 have but
one He to fi for my eoir-jlry.''' His death was concealed for months,
be ea a y, e C .an i r, £ b r, m \ a' :;1 b e did not wa n t th e r e be 1 s t o k i i ow tb cy b ad
a man who coaid die :;o bravely. Arid yet, while Andre rests in that