The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-12-21
Continued rtom i1ighth PaeeD

! come 81 hopeless that mn op2ortunit,
would o. offered f0r negotiations
Arnold was assured that Lord NORTH
would renew the liberal terms already
offered IN las. which conceded every
thing which ,he Americans has de-
mnndcd in l775.
BY renGoring = great service TO ths
British he thought he might horc L
attain position II such cmincncc ae
10 conduct those ncRotiatiuns. for the
wS!, and restore America to her old
allegiance with her freedom from par
linnl"rtarN control guaranteed. In or
dor 10 realize these ambitions he re-
sorted Ia the blacklist trcachcry.
ln July. l5So. he sought and obtained
command Of West Point. in order &c
SURRENDER II To the enemy. When his
scheme was detected ny the timely cap.
turc Of Andre, ne fed To the British nj
New York. u disgraced and hated
traitor
Instead Of getting control If affairs
like General Nioni., he haze sold himself
for n mess # pottaao. receiving only q
briraGicr-tsenaral's appointment In the
British trmy and 81 7altry sum OF
money.
Mission u; Chnmpc.
Soon after Arnold's lirht, Johu
Chainpc. Of Lrudouu County. Va. who
was sergeant major If Henry Lees cav
airy legion. was sent by Lee Ia New
York at General iNashinpton's request.
HIS mission was to discover whether
another Amercau officer tsupposcd to
have been General Gates was also a
traitor ana TO capture Arnold. If Dos
sible ana bring him t. General Wash
ington.
Champe ned from tli.- army ns d de-
Serter from the American camp at Tap
pan a II o'clock Ut night. and was
-. FL.
gaiieyS at haulus Hook. He was
taken 10 New York. and after being
closely questioned by Sir Henry Gin
ton VAS sent to Arnold. who made him
a sergeant in y legion he was raising.
Chainpc was allie TO send 10 General
Washington complet" proofs Of the in
uoceucc Of the suspected general. but
az his mission. Finding that Arnold
waited in his garden every night. he
formed a plan with a comrade To seize
and gag him and take him as drunk
en- soldier To boat ON tho Hudson
River and deliver him TO n party OF
Aorsenen on the jersey shore. on tho
appointed night however. Arnold
moved his quarters, and the legion 10
which Chamrc belonged WAS sent TO
Virgiuin Champe afterwards escaped
from tho British army and joined Cen
cral Greonc's troops in North Carolina.
General Washington discharged him
from further service. lest he should IN II
into the hands OF the British and he
hanged In 179S General Washington
wished to make him captain of an in
fantry company. but learned that he
had died ia Kentucky some time be-
fore.
In the spring Of 1881 Arnold was
sent to Virginia wAcrc he conducted
a plunderirr expedition. and was con
fronted by General the Marquis de
Lafayette. After the death of Gen
cral Phillips, the command of tho
British army il Virginia devolved
upon Arnold. lie sent an officer to
General Lafayette with a nas and let
ter As soon as Lafayette saw Ar
uold's name at the bottom Of the let
ter. he refused TO read It. and told the
officer that he would hold no inter-
course whatever with Arnold bur with
any other officer ne would be ever
ready To reCiprocatc the civilitics
which the circumstances of the two
armies might render desirable.
iicaring OF this General Washing
ton wrote Lafayette AZ follows:
My Dear ATarqu!s.--Yo Your conduct
upon every occasion meets my appro-
Iation Nut In none moro than in your
refusing To hold a spondence with
Arnold"
In a letter from DR. Franklin to
General Lafayette, he writes;
Your friends have heard Of your
being gone against the traitor, Ar
mold. and are anxious to hear of your
success, and that YOU have brought
him 10 punishment, lncoscd is a
copy OF letter from his agent i'm Eng
land, captured by one Of our cruisers.
from which the price or reward he re
cciVcd for his trcachery may be