ll the harm they
could, and Arnold, disgusted at his country's ingratitude, gradually
drifted into Tory sentiments. He married the daughter of a Tory,
associated largely with Tories during a winter at Philadelphia, and at
last resolved to end the war, as he thought, in favor of England by
delivering the line of the Hudson to the British. The result of this
would be to divide the colonies in two and to render effective
co-operation almost impossible.

So he sought and obtained command of West Point in order to carry out
this purpose, began his preparations, and had all his plans laid, when
the merest accident revealed the plot to Washington. Arnold escaped by
fleeing to a British man-of-war in the river, and after a short service
against his country, marked by a raid along the Virginia shore, he
sailed for England, where his last years were spent in poverty and
embittered by remorse. His last great act of treachery blotted out the
brilliant achievements which had gone before, and his name lives only as
that of the most infamous traitor in American history.

Of the great names which come down to us from the Revolution, the one
which seems most admirable after that of Washington himself is that of
Nathanael Greene, not so much because of his military skill, although
that was of the highest order, as because of his pure patriotism, his
lack of selfishness, and his utter devotion to the cause for which he
fought. He was with Washington at Trenton, Princeton, and Monmouth, and
did much to save the army of the battle of the Brandywine. After Gates's
terrible defeat at Camden, he was put in command of the army of the
South, and conducted the most brilliant campaign of the war, defeating
the notorious Sir Guy Tarleton, and forcing Cornwallis north into
Virginia, where he was to be entrapped at Yorktown, and ending the war
which had devastated the South by capturing Charleston. After
Washington, he was perhaps the greatest general the war produced;
certainly he was the purest patriot, and his name should never be
forgotten by a grateful country.

Linked forever with Greene in the annals of southern warfare, are three
men--Francis Marion, Thomas Sumter, and "Light Horse Harry" Lee--three
true knights and Christian gentlemen, worthy of all honor. The first of
these, indeed, may fairly be called the Bayard of American history, the
cavalier without fear and without reproach. Born in South Carolina in
1732, he had seen some service