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Excerpt from Judas Iscariot: Or Kings and Traitors
Not so Benedict Arnold. The good which he had done was smothered by the venomous breath of treachery; and the fair name which he had won for himself was by his own hand exchanged for a traitor's pottage.
It has been truly said that Benedict Arnold was as brave a man as ever lived. It was but the turn of a die that made him Arnold the traitor instead of Arnold the patriot. But it was his own hand that turned that die. Benedict Arnold saw the ladder of fame stoop to take him upon its shoulders; he saw the gilded chariot of honor pause at his threshold to invite him to its purple seat; and he gazed upon the laurel wreath of Victory which a new nation was about to place upon his brow. But the ladder of fame he spurned; and the chariot of honor he challenged; and the laurel wreath of Victory he brushed aside, to see it afterwards ex changed for a crown of guilt.
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