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education, the responsibility, and the religion it possesses. Such men can sink contented- ly into the evening of life, leaving their coun- try's freedom and prosperity, the best legacy to their children.

 But there is yet another class still more in- terestinS in this retrospect: the actors in that arduous struggle, the few survivors of band that now sleep in the soil they defended.

 Soldier of '76 -(if any such now hear my voice,) could you have seen when you fled before the pursuing enemy, over the plains of Jersey or when, after the hard fought day of Germantown, you sullenly retired before the victorious foes or when, without clothes, without food, without money or credit, YOU marked the frozen soil of Valley Forge with the blood of your naked feet; could you have foreseen what you view this day could you have felt that your country, even in your life time, would become the first nation of the. world in freedom and intelligence and the fifth in power, and resources; would YOU not have persevered?g

 Mellow citizens they saw none of these glories, and yet, amid gloom, darker than midnight of storms. they did perseyere with nothing but the resolution gathered from dis pair; with nothing but the determination to die freemen, rather than live slaves; they did persevere,-and for what !-for the poor and pitifnl reward, at their death, of paragraph m a newspaper corner, ''aRother revolution ary soldier has fallen,' driven to the grave. perhaps, by the pressure of poverty, which this rich and powerful republic refused to re- iieve