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direction over the road travelled by Andre to 

 his doom on the 2d of October, 108 years ago. 

 Of the Court of Inquiry of six Major-Generals 

 and eight Brigadier-Generals that found him 

 guilty and deserving of execution, Gen. Steuben 

 was the only one who was disposed to be 

 lenient, while Gen. Parsons, who manifested 

 no mercy for him whatever, was ten months 

 afterwards discovered in correspondence with 

 Sir Henry Clinton, with a view of betraying 

 the Continental Army. 



What a sad farewell it must have been to 

 this beautiful world for one so young, before 

 whom there was everything that we old men 

 have left behind — for pleasant as retrospect 

 may be, some clouds hang over it ; but antici- 

 pation has not one dark spot upon it to dim its 

 brightness. It was the most delightful season 

 of the whole year, at high noon, when from the 

 hill on which he stood he could see the coun- 

 try far and near, clothed in all its glorious 

 autumn array — the yellow fields lately reaped, 

 the green pine forests, the already changing 

 maples in their parti-colored dress. There 

 stood the crowd around him who were yet to 

 live and yet to have these scenes before them, 

 who were still to inhale the balmy air of which 



