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Show THE ANDES MOHUMKNr. When Dean Stanley visited this country recently he suggested that a monument bo erected by the people of tho United States to tho memory of Major Andre, the British officer who was executed as a spy during the revolutionary wir. Mr. Cyrus W. Field rcidily coincided with the dean, and kllwcd the matter up by proposing a general subscription for tho purpoHO. Aa might havo bten cxp'ctod, much comment com-ment has b u.i exciud, uud it is now hardly probtble that the monument will be built unless by Ejglieh money. Mr. Field, how ever, eudeavord to place hioell right before his ftllow uilizoua by sy jug he did not propose a monument iu honor ol the epy, but merely commemorative com-memorative of the execution and indicative of the hpot where it took place. Thii would perhajs ofUnd nobody, while ft monument in honor of Mnjor Au.bO .tllan'. s tidier though he was would tie equivalent to saying he hhuld iut havo met the (ate ho did, and calling iu q ettion the justico of thedeoree that he should die. The people of this ago, as well aa those of the revolutionary period, have a due appreciation of the merits and soldierly qualiucatious ot the unfortunate un-fortunate otlicer. lie was a brave and gallant soldier, and hU execution was a mournful circunistauce to those who ordered it, and to the Ameiicm people at laryo. But it wis necessary, and its justice cinuot bo doubled. He was caught within the Amentau Hue, bearing ou his person tn amenable documents, lie W;U iu every eouse a spy, and as so disguised, and all his acLi were thes of a spy. Whatever were his motives no one may doubt that U.ey were houorablo considering the noble character char-acter of the man by all the ruies of war ho forfeited his life, aud r.o one can say ought agaiust the justice and equity of the death sentence. The distinguished patriot general wept when he sigued the death warrant. He would gladly have a:ived the man if it had been con-i ile;it, f iir or oven s it'-i to d.i so. Tlio Americui p.:oI-j I. ve ,1 t p respect i ji M jor Aua.e. but no true American would freely consent to the erection hero of n mormn-.eut commemorative com-memorative of him, for liu readJn that such memorial wou'd he a severe and grossly unjust criticism on the action of tho revolution r lathers who executed him. Ii djiog houor to the memory of a foreign spy we cannot ailjrd to c ist a ah dow upon our own heroic dead, or lo call in q Ration any of those acta by which ihoc.iiutry vim nude free M-jor And. lias a suitable monument in WeslminstLr Abtey. His own couu- try baa done honor to bi n. It we are t) eree; mouumeuta to anyone, lei them be memori-Us to the memory of tho travo Americiu heroes who bit their lives through their love of, c.uniry. |