■ ■ . He disdained to acquire wealth by the sacrifice of .

> • . HIS COUNTRY. __- -'

^- ■' ' Rejecting the temptation of great rewards

He conveyed his prisoner to the American camp; ^ . ; . ■ -. - • And - , / . .< . ■

. ;. By this act of noble self denial, ■ - • • -■ -

The treason of Arnold was detected, . '

The designs of the enemy baffled ; _ ■ \

West Point and the American Army saved ; '": . '- And these United States, Now by the Grace of God Free and Independent, Rescued from most imminent peril.

The fourth side of the pedestal bears the following inscription

THE CORPORATION

Of the City of New York, Erected this Tomb, As a memorial Sacred to ; PUBLIC GRATITUDE.

S8 HISTORY OF THE

The whole beiug completed with the exception of placing the cone on the pedestal, on the morning of the twenty-second of November, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, the corporation proceeded in the steamboat Sandusky, to Peekskill, where they arrived at one o'clock, and were met by the Committee of Arrangements,^ and a large concourse of the inhabitants of Westchester County, who had come to assist in the last honors, to the memory of their fellow citizen. Amon^ them were many aged and venerable men, who passed through the perils of the revolution and shared its dangers with the deceased.

A procession was formed to the church yard, where the monument stands, about two and a half miles from the village of Peekskill, and the column being lowered to its place on the pedestal, William Paulding, mayor of the city of New York, addressed the assembled citizens as follows :