 Dear General If Your Excellency thinks me Criminal For Heavens sake let me be immediately Tried and If found guilty Executed, I want no favor I ask Only for Justice, If it is denied me from Your Excellency I have no where to seek it but of the Candid Public before whom I shall be under the necessity of laying the whole Matter. Let me beg of you Sir to Consider that a Set of artful unprincipal’d Men in Office may Misinterpret the most Innocent Actions, and by raising the Public Clamour against your Excellency place you in the same disagreable situation I am in.  Haveing made every Sacrafise of Fortune and Blood, and become a Cripple in the Service of my Country, I little expected to meet the ungrateful Returns I have received of my Countrymen, but as Congress have Stampt Ingratitude as a Current Coin I must take it, I wish Your Excellency for your long and Eminent Services may not be paid of In the Same Coin.  To NAME_1 from Major General NAME_2, 5 May 1779    What is this passage mostly about?  NAME_3 is defending himself against accusations that he had committed some crime and is asking Washington for a fair trial. He says that if he is found guilty, he accepts execution, but he wants justice.   Is this passage a primary or secondary source? How do you know? 