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" Let me hope, Sir, that if aught in my character impresses you with esteem towards me, if aught in my misfortunes marks me as the victim of policy and not of resentment, I shall experience the operation of these feelings in your breast, by being informed... "
A History of the United States of America - Page 220
by Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1824 - 400 pages
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The Life of Major John André, Adjutant-general of the British Army in America

Winthrop Sargent - 1871 - 508 pages
...of policy and not of resentment, I shall experience the operation of those feelings in your heart, by being informed that I am not to die on a gibbet. I have the honor to be your Excellency's most obedient and most humble servant, JOHN ANDRK, Adj. Genl....
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Pemberton: Or, One Hundred Years Ago

Henry Peterson - United States - 1873 - 402 pages
...of policy, and not of resentment, I shall experience the operation of those feelings in your heart, by being informed that I am not to die on a gibbet. " I have the honor to be your Excellency's most obedient and most humble servant,* JOHN ANDRE, " Adjutant-General...
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A Popular History of England: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 4

Guizot (M., François) - Great Britain - 1876 - 588 pages
...misfortunes marks me as the victim of policy and not of resentment, I shall experience the operation of these feelings in your breast by being informed that I am not to die on a gibbet." With a severity unparalleled in the rest of his life, and the silent and painful remembrance of which...
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History of the Republic of the United States of America: As Traced ..., Volume 2

John Church Hamilton - United States - 1879 - 646 pages
...victim of policy, and not of resentment, I shall experience the operation of these feelings in youi breast, by being informed that I am not to die on a gibbet." spiracy, and his indignation heightened by the belief that it was intended to reach the person of Washington,...
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Our French Allies: Rochambeau and His Army, Lafayette and His Devotion, D ...

Edwin Martin Stone - French - 1884 - 834 pages
...marks me as the victim of policy, and not of resentment, I shall experience the operation of these feelings in your breast by being informed that I am not to die on a gibbet." But though Washington, as has been asserted, was so afl'ected " that his hand could scarcely command...
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Our French Allies: Rochambeau and His Army, Lafayette and His Devotion, D ...

Edwin Martin Stone - French - 1884 - 832 pages
...marks mc as the victim of policy, and not of resentment, I shall experience the operation of these feelings in your breast by being informed that I am not to die on a gibbet." But though Washington, as has been asserted, was so affected "that his hand could scarcely command...
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The Two Spies: Nathan Hale and John André

Benson John Lossing - Spies - 1886 - 200 pages
...esteem toward me, if aught in my misfortune marks me as the victim of policy and not of resentment, I shall experience the operation of those feelings in...by being informed that I am not to die on a gibbet. " I have the honor to be your Excellency's most obedient and most humble servant, JOHN ANDR&" Colonel...
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The Two Spies: Nathan Hale and John André

Benson John Lossing - 1886 - 218 pages
...esteem toward me, if aught in my misfortune marks me as the victim of policy and not of resentment, I shall experience the operation of those feelings in...by being informed that I am not to die on a gibbet. " I have the honor to be your Excellency's most obedient and most humble servant, JOHN ANDR£." Colonel...
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Memorials of Washington and of Mary, His Mother, and Martha, His Wife, from ...

James Walter - Presidents - 1886 - 412 pages
...of policy and not of resentment, I shall experience the operations of those feelings in your heart by being informed that I am not to die on a gibbet. "JOHN ANDRfi, " Adjutant-General to the British Army" Washington's counsellors declared the request...
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Memorials of Washington and of Mary, His Mother, and Martha, His Wife, from ...

James Walter - Presidents - 1887 - 420 pages
...of policy and not of resentment, I shall experience the operations of those feelings in your heart by being informed that I am not to die on a gibbet. " JOHN ANDR£, " Adjutant-General to the British Army" Washington's counsellors declared the request...
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