. A history of the United States of America, on a plan adapted to the capacity of youth .. . soldiers were, they were not to be bribed. Resolutelyrefusing his offers, they conducted him to Lieutenant-colonelJameson, their commanding officer. Jameson injudiciouslypermitted Andre — still calling himself Anderson — to write toArnold, who immediately escaped on board the Vulture, andtook refuge in New York. Washington, on his way to head-quarters, from Connecticut, where he had been to confer withCount de Bochambeau, providentially happened to be at WestPoint, just at this time. After taking measu
. A history of the United States of America, on a plan adapted to the capacity of youth .. . soldiers were, they were not to be bribed. Resolutelyrefusing his offers, they conducted him to Lieutenant-colonelJameson, their commanding officer. Jameson injudiciouslypermitted Andre — still calling himself Anderson — to write toArnold, who immediately escaped on board the Vulture, andtook refuge in New York. Washington, on his way to head-quarters, from Connecticut, where he had been to confer withCount de Bochambeau, providentially happened to be at WestPoint, just at this time. After taking measures to insure thesafety of the fort, he appointed a board, of which GeneralGreene was president, to decide upon the condition and punish-ment of Andre. After a patient hearing of the case, in whichevery feeling of kindness, liberality, and generous sympathy, 192 PERIOD IV - - 1775—1783 THE REVOLUTION was strongly evinced, the board, upon his own confession, unani-mously pronounced Andre a spy, and declared that, agreeably tothe laws and usages of nations, he ought to suffer 16. Major Andre had many friends in the American army;and even Washington would have spared him, had duty to hiscountry permitted. Every possible effort was made by Sir HenryClinton in his favor; but it was deemed important that thedecision of the board of war should be carried into Major Andre was apprized of the sentence of death, hemade a last appeal, in a letter to Washington, that he mightbe shot, rather than die on a gibbet. To this request it wasdeemed necessary to give a denial; and, on the 2d of October, thisunfortunate young man expired on the gallows, while foes andfriends universally lamented his untimely end. 17. As a reward to Paulding, Williams and Van Wert, fortheir virtuous and patriotic conduct, Congress voted to each afarm in Westchester county of the value of five hundred pounds,an annuity of two hundred dollars, and a silver medal, on oneside of which was a s
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