Respect, Love, Duty, etc., await all my inquiring and real
friends.
===============I am, etc.=====
===============S. HALE.=====
=====MRS. HALE===============

These letters sufficiently attest the character of
the man, and we can hope that in later days he was
enabled to return to his family, and to prove that
political differences of opinion had not changed
the integrity of his life.

Knowing nothing of his later days, we may re-
joice that the base assertion that this own cousin
had betrayed Nathan Hale was wholly without
foundation; and that in him, also, the Hale trait
of loyalty to honest opinions enabled him to make
sacrifices as great in their way as those made by
many of his kindred.

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