A complete history of the Marquis de Lafayette, major-general in the American army in the war of the revolution. Embracing an account of his tour through the United States, to the time of his departure, September, 1825. By an officer in the late army.

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court-martial, with the deep regret that was excited by his
frank and noble demeanour, determined that he was a spy,
and ought to suffer death. The general officers which composed it, lamented the sentence which the usages of war
compelled them to pronounce; and perhaps on no occasion
of his life, did Washington obey with more reluctance, the
stern mandates of duty and of policy. The sympathy excited among the American officers by his fate, was as universal as is unusual on such occasions. On the second of
October, 1780, the unhappy victim was executed at Tappan.
When brought to the foot of the gibbet, he exclaimed, " And
must I die thus!" He was answered, that it could not be
otherwise. He did not dissemble his proud grief, and having
past a few moments in prayer, he pronounced these words,
which were his last; "Bear witness that I die as a brave
man ought to die." Such was the just, but melancholy fate
of a young man, deserving, in so many respects, a better
destiny. Andre died with fortitude and dignity, his last
hours soothed with every mark of attention and regard, and
his execution accompanied by the tears of the very judges
who pronounced it. Arnold lived "a recreant and most
degenerate traitor," branded with infamy, the loathsome
object of scorn, and regarded with contempt and detestation by the honourable, the generous, and the brave, who
could never forget that he was a sordid villain, first the slave
of his rage, then purchased with gold, and finally secured from
the gallows by the blood of one of the most accomplished officers in the British army.
The events of the campaign of 1780, although by no
means adverse, had disappointed the sanguine expectations
which attended its commencement. But although unmarked
by any memorable event, the American General had succeeded in keeping the enemy shut up in New-York. This
state of inactivity little accorded with the martial spirit and
desire of distinction, which animated the Marquis de La