A REVOLUTIONARY COPPERHEAD. lyi 



West Point were delivered. A part of the 

 original furniture is still there. A little secret 

 closet is pointed out where Andre was said to 

 have been concealed ; but this is one of the 

 absurd traditions which, I believe, Lossing has 

 adopted as authentic without reflection. 

 There can be no foundation for it whatever, as 

 there was no pretence of secrecy in his visit 

 to the house. 



Mr. Smith was a gentleman of high social 

 standing and wealth, but his great mistake lay 

 in his abortive attempt to sit comfortably on 

 two stools, which finally brought him ignomin- 

 iously to the floor. He was a sort of Revolu- 

 tionary Copperhead. As he intimates in his 

 little book, copies of which are very rare (but 

 one of them is in the possession of Mr. Lil- 

 burn), published in England and reprinted in 

 America after the war, he was a Tory. 



In those days there were Tories of two 

 classes. The out-and-out Tory was one who 

 stood by the King through thick and thin, op- 

 posing the war as unjustifiable from the begin- 

 ning, and maintaining his allegiance squarely 

 by taking up arms in the cause of his sovereign. 

 The other was the m.an who acknowledged the 

 grievances of the colonies, but was opposed 



