H. L. Barnum Spy Unmasked

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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. That there were several such secret agents in the service of the leaders Of the revolution, is a fact that is now well known; a fact to which the author alludes in the first chapter of The Spy, where he says, Many an individual has gone down to the tomb stigmatized as a foe to the rights of his countrymen, while, in secret, he has been the useful agent of the lead ers of the revolution. Each of these individuals might have contributed a tint, a shade, a line, or perhaps a feature, to the character of Harvey Birch; but we think no one can per use the following pages without be ing convinced that Enoch Crosby was the original model from which that character was formed.