History of Westchester county : New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City / . d the surrenderor General Lincoln with hisarmy Of nearly 7000 troops. The fact of Andres presence disguised asI Ik spy, in the South as well as the North, is upon the evidence of one of1 Clintons own officers who so stated in 1822, and of one of Andres inti-mate friends. . Andre accepted all this information from Ar-nold secretly, w illingly, on our own soil, and lor the direct purpose ofdestroying the country. . Well did the K ing of England say, thepublic
History of Westchester county : New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City / . d the surrenderor General Lincoln with hisarmy Of nearly 7000 troops. The fact of Andres presence disguised asI Ik spy, in the South as well as the North, is upon the evidence of one of1 Clintons own officers who so stated in 1822, and of one of Andres inti-mate friends. . Andre accepted all this information from Ar-nold secretly, w illingly, on our own soil, and lor the direct purpose ofdestroying the country. . Well did the K ing of England say, thepublic never can be compensated for the vast advantages which musthave follow ed from the success Of his plan. . Of Arnolds toll, • of blood money, with pay and rank, which Clinton had promised him, 1 think I may say with Yattel, the great ex-positor on the laws of war, that such bribes lor seduction are not in ac-cord with the laws of a moral conscience. The best law says that•seducing a subject to betray his country ; . . practising on the fidel-ity of a governor, entil ing him, persuading him up a place, is. prompting such persons to commit detestable crimes,1 and Yattel asks,Is it honest to incite our most inveterate enemy to be guilty of acrime ? These statements are amply warranted by thetestimony gathered up and published in The Lifeof Major John Andre, etc., by Winthrop Sargent, , A ppletons edition of 1871, which is as follows: After tlie fall of the city I harleston) we are told that there was anopinion current iu our army that Andre had been present in its linesduring the siege as a spy, and in 1822 it was declared that tw o gentlemenof repute, still surviving at Charleston, affirmed at least the existence ofthe report ill 1780. One of these had been an officer of Clintons ; theother a resident of the place through and after the siege. Another wit-ness goes further. Edward Shrewsberry, a suspected Tory, hut of goodcondition, was ill at his house in East
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