This is not a time for formality and ceremony.

The crisis in every point of view is extraordinary, and extraordinary expedients are necessary.

I am decided in this opinion." NOTE--No.

IV.

_See Page 261_ Andre having been unquestionably a spy, and his sentence consequently just; and the plot in which he had engaged having threatened consequences the most fatal to America; his execution, had he been an ordinary person, would certainly have been viewed with cold indifference.