Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1894 — THE FIRST A. P. A. [ARTICLE]

THE FIRST A. P. A.

He Was Benedict Arnold of pnravory Memory. When General Benedict Arnold, lured by British offers, sought to betray into the hands of the enemy the important strategic point which he commanded, and fled to their lines, he addressed a proclamation to the officers and soldiers of the continental army in which he holds up to reprobation the conduct of the body governing the republic, saying: And should the parent nation (England) cease her exertions to deliver you what security remains to you, even for the enjoyment of the consolations of that religion for which your fathers braved the ocean, the heathen and the wilderness? Do you know that the eye which guides this pen lately saw your mean and profligate congress at mass sos the soul of a Roman Catholic ip purgatory and participating ip the rites of a church against whusp anti, Christian corruptions yppr pious ancestor* would have witnessed with their Wood i Benedict Arnold, Oct. 80,1780.