written by Washington to Colonel John Laurens
on October 13 of the same year.

In the year 1853 some Americans who believe
that all historic spots in our land should be marked
by permanent memorials, erected a monument at
Tarrytown, New York, in honor of the captors of
Andre. Hon. Henry J. Raymond made the address
at its dedication. Mr. Raymond was born
in 1820 and was graduated from the University
of Vermont in 1840. He assisted Horace Greeley
in the conduct of the _Tribune_ and other newspapers.
He founded the _New_York_Times_ in 1851 and died
in 1869.

In the address just mentioned, Mr. Raymond,
contrasting the halo that surrounded Andre's
name with the oblivion then seemingly the fate of
Nathan Hale, closed with these impassioned
words:

"Where sleeps the Americanism of Americans,
that their hearts are not stirred to solemn rapture
at thought of the sublime love of country which
buoyed him [Hale] not alone above 'the fear of
death,' but far beyond all thought of himself, of
his fate, and his fame, or of anything less than his
country, and which shaped his dying breath into
the sacred sentence which trembled at the last
upon his unquivering lip?"

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