Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . lled iu Knox and Lafay-ette, and told them what had occurred,merely remarking at the close, Whomcan we trust now? His countenancewas calm as erer, and being informed thatArnolds wife was in
Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . lled iu Knox and Lafay-ette, and told them what had occurred,merely remarking at the close, Whomcan we trust now? His countenancewas calm as erer, and being informed thatArnolds wife was in a state bordering oninsanity, he went up to her room to sootheher. In her frenzy she upbraided himwith being in a plot to murder her moment she raved, anr>ther she meltedinto tears. Sometimes she pressed herinfant to her bosom and lamented its fate,occasioned by the impriidencoof its father,in a manner that would have pierced in-sensibility itself. It was four oclock inthe afternoon when these disclosures of Arnolds treason and Andres capture weremade to Washington, and, an hour later,dinner being announced, he said— Come, gentlemen, since Mrs. Arnoldis unwell and the general is absent, let ussit down without ceremony. No one at the table but Knox and La-fayette knew what had transpired, nordid Washington exhibit any cliange of? liic:mr. |it that 1m- \v:i< more than. GENERAL ARNOLKS IIFAD-QCARTER-S. usually stern in his voice and )Ut his mind, oppressed with namelessfears, wandered far away from that dinnertable, and no sooner was the quiet repastover than he addressed himself to the tai-kbefore him. He wrote rapidly, and cour-iers were soon seen gallojiing in every di-rection. He announced the treason toColonel Wade, commanding at West Point,in the absence of Colonel Lamb, in thesingle sentence, General Anio/d is goneto the enemy. Having done all he couldto arrest the tremendous evils that threat-ened to overwhelm him, Washington re-tired late at nigh
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