...Hamilton knew everything about the proceedings against Andre, but he also observed that "every thing that is amiable in virtue, in fortitude, in delicate...sentiment, and accomplished manners, pleads for him. ... I reverenced his merit." "My feelings," he would later confess, "were never put to so severe a...

...are yet on the way. Though it is too late to have the advantage of novelty, to comply with my promise I send you my account of Arnold's affair; and to justify...sentiments I must inform you that I urged a compliance with Andre's request to be shot." It has been said that, as a return for clemency, Andre should have been...

...which sentenced him : — HEAD QUARTERS OF THE ARMT, > TiMMH, Oct. a, 178U. J • * * « Poor Andre suffers to-day. Everything that is amiable in virtue,...fortitude, in delicate sentiment and accomplished manners plead for him ; but hard-hearted policy calls for a sacrifice. He must die. I send you my account of...

...Hamilton, in which he says : — " I send you my " account of Arnold's affair; and to justify niy" self to your sentiments, I must inform you that "I urged a compliance with Andre's request to " be shot, and I do not think it would have had " an ill effect, but some people...