The British soldiers and American Tories stole cows from the Whigs; the Whigs had no remedy but to steal them back again. ... It is evident they were not thieves for gain, else would they have taken the price which Andre ottered for his ransom, which was more than would have sufficed to purchase the whole stock of cows, sheep, and oxen which belonged to Job when he was in the land of Uz. . . . Every New .Yorker should be proud that he was born in the State which produced three such men; and the fact of their being boys, and poor boys, adds very much to the glory of the act. Had this been done by a Van Cortlandt, a Philipse, a Van Rensselaer, or any three of the " Lords of the Manor," on the Hudson River, the act would have been engraven on the rocks with the point of a diamond.

CAPTURE

ANDRE

Andre has been represented as one of the darlings of nature, an adorable child of genius. He was a poet, a painter, an amateur performer, and, most interesting of all, a lover. But in all he was only a dabbler. He belongs to the large class of attractive characters of every age who are " said to have been " witty, wise, and fashioned for great things -- but have left no tangible evidence of it. The story of his love is representative of the man. He loved a fair lady, Honora Sneyd, who loved and married another. That was in 1773. As a matter of fact she rejected him as early as 1771, and he then entered the army. There was no reason for her rejection except that it did not please her to love him back, but did please her to love someone else; for Andre was a person of good fortune and family, though without title -- and Honora did not marry a title.