"From fame-leaf and angel-leaf, From monument and urn, The sad of earth, the glad of heaven, His tragic fate shall learn; And on fame-leaf and angel-leaf The name of HALE shall burn!" At the dedication of a monument in 1853, erected on the spot near Tarrytown where André was captured, the late Henry J. Raymond, in an address on the occasion, said: "At an early stage of the Revolution, NATHAN HALE, captain in the American army, which he had entered, abandoning brilliant prospects of professional distinction for the sole purpose of defending the liberties of his country--gifted, educated, ambitious--the equal of André in talent, in worth, in amiable manners, and in every manly quality, and his superior in that final test of character--the motives by which his acts were prompted and his life was guided--laid aside every consideration personal to himself, and entered upon a service of infinite hazard to life and honor, because Washington deemed it important to the sacred cause to which both had been sacredly set apart. Like André, he was found in the hostile camp; like him, though without trial, he was adjudged as a spy; and, like him, he was condemned to death. "And here the likeness ends. No consoling word, no pitying or respectful look, cheered the dark hours of his doom. He was met with insult at every turn. The sacred consolations of the minister of God were denied him; the Bible was taken from him; with an excess of barbarity hard to be paralleled in civilized war, his dying letters of farewell to his mother and sisters were destroyed in his presence; and, uncheered by sympathy, mocked by brutal power, and attended only by that sense of duty, incorruptible, undefiled, which had ruled his life--finding a fit farewell in the serene and sublime regret that he had 'but _one_ life to lose for his country'--he went forth to meet the great darkness of an ignominious death. "The loving hearts of his early companions have erected a neat monument to his memory in his native town; but, beyond that little circle, where stands his name recorded? While the majesty of England, in the person of her sovereign, sent an embassy across the sea to solicit the remains of André at the hands of his foes, that they might be enshrined in that sepulchre where she garners the relics of her mighty and renowned sons-- 'Splendid in their ashes, pompous in the grave,'