1To George Washington from Major John André, 24 September 1780 (Washington Papers)
What I have as yet Said concerning myself was in the justifiable attempt to be extricated; I am too little accustomed to duplicity to have Succeeded. I beg your Excellency will be persuaded that no Alteration in the Temper of my Mind or Apprehension for my Safety, induces me to Take the Step of Adressing you, but that it is to rescue myself from an imputation of having assumed a mean Character...
2To George Washington from Major John André, 1 October 1780 (Washington Papers)
Buoy’d 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 the request I make to your Excellency at this Serious period and which is to Soften my last moments will not be rejected. Sympathy towards a Soldier will Surely induce Your Excellency and a military Tribunal to adapt the Mode of my death to...