In testimony whereof, Ordered, that each of them receive annually out of the public treasury two hundred dollars in specie, or an equivalent in current money of these States, during life, and that the board of war procure for each of them a silver medal, on one side of which shall be a shield with this inscription " Fidelity," and on the other, the A)ll()wing motto" Yincit amor patriae," and forward them to the commander-in-chief, who is requested to present the same, with a copy of this resolution, and the thanks of Congress for their fidelity and the eminent service they have rendered their country.
The State also gave each a farn). ,
The Westchester Connty Bank, at Pcekskill. has commemorated this important event on its bills, by a beaniifiil vignette picture representing the arrest of the spy. He is in the act of snpplicalino[ his captors to let tiim escape, the discovered papers are in the hands of one of ih.em, and (he stern eyes of the others evince the determination to listen to no sngo:es!ions hut those of patiiolism. The form and features of Andre are admirably de picted, a miniature hangs in liis hosom exqui>itely finished. This was a likeness of Miss Honora to whom he was devotedly attached. a The picture had been painted by himself from the
» This lady died of consumption only a few months before Andre suffered at Tappan. She had married another gentlemen four years after her engagement to
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