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 . forth andshowed them the pass from General in the first place would have sufficed,but his strange conduct and imprudentspeech had so thoroughly betrayed him,that the three militi
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 . forth andshowed them the pass from General in the first place would have sufficed,but his strange conduct and imprudentspeech had so thoroughly betrayed him,that the three militiamen insisted onsearching his person. They thereforeobliged liim to take off his coat and vest,and found on him eighty dollars in Conti-nental money, but nothing to warrant sus-picion of anything sinister, and were aboutto let liim jiroceed, when one of them— marks on the works; also other importantdocuments. Wiiile dressing again, Andre endeavoredto ransom himself from his captors. Hewould give any sum of money, if theywould let him go; would give his horse,saddle, bridle, gold watch, and one hundredguineas, and woidd send them to anyplacethat might be fixed upon. Williams asked, ironicallj, whether hewould not give more than all that. Andre replied, that he would give anyreward they might name either in goodsor money, and would remain with two oftlieir party while one went to New Yorkto get CAPTURE OF ANDRE. Paulding, a stout-hearted youngster—ex-claimed : Bojs, I am not satisfied—his bootsmust come off. At this Andre changed color. Hisboots, he said, came off with difficulty, andhe begged he might not be subjected tothe inconvenience and delay. His remon-strances were in vain. He was compelledto sit down; his boots were drawn off andthe concealed papers discovered. Hastilyscanning them, Paulding exclaimed— Ml/ God! He is aspijf The papers, which were in the hand-writing of Arnold, contained exact returnsof the state of the forces, ordnance, anddefenses of West P
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