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NYP-F.780.014
12 Oct 1780:31 (187)
Philadelphia, October 4. A concise description of the
figures exhibited and paraded through the streets of this
city on Saturday last. . . [50 lines describing the figures
of General Benedict Arnold in effigy in a cart, the
Devil,and various signs about Arnold's crime of treason] The
procession began about four o'clock in the following order:
Several gentlemen mounted on horseback. A line of
Continental officers. Sundry gentlemen in a line. A guard of
the city infantry. Just before the cart, drums and fifes
playing the Rogues March. Guards on each side. The
procession was attended with a numerous concourse of people,
who, after expressing their abhorrence of treason and the
traitor, committed him to the flames, and left both the
effigy and the original to sink into ashes and oblivion.
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