dst,--to form such a character as that of the traitor.
No other country could furnish the ingredients out of which it was compounded, although there are bad men, and a plenty of them, in all countries.
Major Tallmadge, the father of the former Senator from New York, was the officer who had immediate charge of Major Andre after he had been taken.
He had been brought, before Colonel Jamieson, commander of the post nearest the point, by his captors.
He had upon his person the plans of West Point and other treasonable papers.
Yet, notwithstanding this, when he showed Jamieson Arnold's pass, Jamieson ordered him to be carried to Arnold.
The affair would thus have been only temporarily delayed — Andre would have been dismissed, and the neck of treason would have been reconstructed without difficulty.
Major Tallmadge, who had been out on duty, arrived after Andre had been started off, under escort, to Arnold.
He no sooner saw the papers that had been found on Andre than he saw at
