The Treason Of Charles Lee

Reprint of the original, first published in 1860.

Mr. Moore--the accomplished Librarian of the New York Historical Society, to whose zeal, energy and good judgment, the Society owes so much--has made an original contribution to our history, of extraordinary interest. It clears up the painful doubts, which rested on the honor and good faith of Washington's second in command, into the more painful but undeniable certainty of his deliberate treachery to the cause he had espoused. Mr. Moore has become possessed of several documents in relation to that remarkable man, never yet published; and among them a manuscript in Gen. Lee's own handwriting, endorsed in the handwriting of Henry Strachey, Secretary to the Royal Commissioners, Lord and Sir William Howe, in which he has drawn out for them a plan for putting an end to the Revolutionary War by the subjugation of the country to the British arms. Of this treasonable document he gives us a facsimile, accompanied by such notices of Lee previously to his entering the service of his country, and of his capture and imprisonment by the British, as serve for all needful elucidation of the subject. He reserves, however, the story of Lee's conduct at Monmouth, and his trial after that affair, for a larger work, to contain a more complete account of Lee's life. Meantime he gives us this part of the results of his investigations and discoveries, demonstrating beyond all question the fact of Lee's treason. He has most creditably accomplished the task he proposed to himself, proving--what all who knew him well were aware of--his eminent fitness for those investigations into our history to which he has devoted so much attention. --The Church Review, Volume 13

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