Howard, Benjamin Dyckman, Doctor Peter Goetchius, James Mandeville, and Doctor Samuel Strang.

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extinguished. What the final issue might have been, God only knows ; but we all know, the consequences would have shaken our good cause to its foundation. A plan for this purpose was agitated -- matured -- almost consummated by the treason of Arnold. To you it is not necessary to detail the particulars of this infamous and dangerous project, so familiar to the memory and hearts of our people. I see among you many venerable and aged men who bore a part in the struggle, and shared in the hardships, anxieties, dangers and sufferings of those dismal times. I see at the head of these, a faithful and gallant officer, still happily and honorably surviving to enjoy that invaluable freedom which his own efforts contributed to secure. =^ I see too, among them, one who was him.self a companion and sharer in the virtuous act by which these imminent dangers were averted. b

If you wish for the story of this high achievement of honest, unpretending patriotism, ask it of him. He will tell it in such a way, as shall neither wrong the living or the dead. He will tell you of the capture of Andre, who from a spy, was elevated by a false estimate and a mistaken sympathy, into a hero and a martyr -- of the temptations which had corrupted the second man in the nation's estimation, being rejected by the sons of the farmers of Westchester-- of the delivery of the spy into the hands of the great good man of the ags -- of modern times -- of all times whatever, and of their receiving his glorious approbation -- of the applauses of the nation -- and the thanks of that most illustrious body, the old Congress of the United States -- the noblest reward which was ever bestowed on a private citizen.