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died there two or three days after the action. 

 The Congress at Philadelphia passed becoming 

 resolutions and appropriated a sum of money 

 for the erection of a monument to his mem- 

 ory. It is an almost incredible story that the 

 amount being handed over to the General's 

 son, who was authorized to exercise his own 

 taste and judgment, he diverted the appropri- 

 ation to his own uses, and left his father's 

 grave without even a stone to designate its 

 locality. A later generation has been more 

 grateful to him than his unnatural offspring, 

 and now a handsome monument records the 

 heroic self-sacrifice of this intrepid ofificer. 



It would have been better for the fame of 

 Arnold had he, too, met his death upon this 

 early battle-field. But he lived to display 

 again and again his reckless courage in subse- 

 quent contests for liberty. No one can doubt 

 that until his fatal step into the abyss of in- 

 famy he was actuated by the patriotism as 

 much as by the ambition of a soldier. It was 

 when the latter was disappointed that the 

 former was betrayed. Like Lucifer, he fell 

 from the stars, and as Lucifer's good deeds in 

 heaven from all eternity are not remembered 

 as a balance of account with his transgression, 



