 | Christopher James Riethmüller - 1864 - 516 pages
...his feelings; and it was with this view that he addressed the following appeal to Washington:— " Sympathy towards a soldier will surely induce your Excellency and a military tribunal, to adapt the mode of my death to the feelings of a man of honour. Let me hope, sir, that... | |
 | John André - Courts-martial and courts of inquiry - 1865 - 94 pages
...to honorable pursuits, and stained with no action that can give me remorse, I trust that the request I make to your Excellency at this serious period,...will surely induce your Excellency and a military tribunal, to adapt the mode of my death to the feelings of a man of honor. Let me hope, Sir, that if... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 662 pages
...HIMSELF. honourable pursuits, and stained with no action that can give me remorse, I trust the request I make to your excellency at this serious period,...towards a soldier will surely induce your excellency and the military tribunal to adapt the mode of my death to the feelings of a man of honour. Let me hope,... | |
 | Charles Edwards Lester - England - 1866 - 312 pages
...honorable purposes, and stained with no action which can give me remorse, I trust that the request which I make to your Excellency at this serious period,...and which is to soften my last moments, will not be reXXIII. jected : sympathy towards a soldier will surely induce your Excellency and a military tribunal,... | |
 | Charles Edwards Lester - Great Britain - 1866 - 316 pages
...period, and which is to soften my last moments, will not be reMAJOR ANDRE— CAPT. HALE. f 9 jectcd : sympathy towards a soldier will surely induce your Excellency and a military tribunal, to adapt the mode of my death to the feelings of a man of honor. Let me hope, sir, that if... | |
 | Thomas Carter - 1867 - 292 pages
...honourable purposes, and stained with no action which can give me remorse, I trust that " the request which I make to your Excellency at this serious period, and which is to soften my last " moments, will not bo rejected ; sympathy towards a soldier will surely induce your Excellency, and a 4» military tribunal,... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1868 - 678 pages
...me remorse, I trnst thut the request I make to your excellency, at this serious period, and which in to soften my last moments, will not be rejected. "...will surely induce your excellency, and a military tribunal, to adapt the m.Kle of my death to the feelings of a man of honour. " Let me hope, sir, if... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Anthologies - 1869 - 526 pages
...honourable pursuits, and stained with no action that can give me remorse, I trust that the request I make to your Excellency, at this serious period,...will surely induce your Excellency and a military tribunal to adapt the mode of my death to the feelings of a man of honour. Let me hope, sir, that if... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1869 - 630 pages
...honorable' pursuits, and stained wilh no nction that can give me remorse, I trust that the request I make to your Excellency at this serious period,...rejected. Sympathy towards a soldier will surely induce VoL. iv. 11 your Excellency and a military tribunal to adapt the mode of my death to the feelings of... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1869 - 596 pages
...to honorable pursuits, and stained with no action that can give me remorse, I trust that the request I make to your Excellency at this serious period,...be rejected. Sympathy towards a soldier will surely indue" your Excellency and a military tribunal to adapt the mode of my death to the feelings of a man... | |
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Buoyed above the terror of death by the consciousness of a life devoted to honorable pursuits, and stained with no action that can give me remorse, I trust that the request I make to your Excellency at this serious period, and which is to soften my last... 
