Horatio Gates, unworthy though he was, stands there in bronze.

The gallant Schuyler, the intrepid Morgan, honor the other two.

But where is he whose valor turned back the advancing Saint-Leger?
whose prompt decision saved the Continental position at Bemis Heights?
whose military genius truly gained the day?
A vacant niche--empty as England's rewards, void as his own life--speaks more eloquently than words, more strongly than condemnation, more pitifully than tears, of a mighty career blighted by treason and hurled into the bottomless pit of despair.

This is America's way of honoring Arnold in his dishonor."_ -- From The Real America in Romance.] In the opinion that the British would not immediately abandon the passes in the highlands, congress ordered Putnam to join General Washington with a reinforcement not exceeding two thousand five hundred men, and directed Gates to take command of the army on the Hudson, with unlimited powers to call for aids of militia from the New England States, as well as from New York and New Jersey.
A proposition to authorize the Commander-in-chief, after consulting with General Gates and Governor Clinton, to increase the detachment designed to strengthen his army, if he should then be of opinion that it might be done without endangering the objects to be accomplished by Gates, was seriously opposed.

An attempt was made to amend this proposition so as to make the increase of the reinforcement to depend on the assent of Gates and Clinton; but this amendment was lost by a considerable majority, and the original resolution was carried.