May this monument to the memory of the officers and soldiers of the Re volution encourage the patriot and be a warning to the traitor. May it last so long as patriotism shall live in our land and until freedom and independence shall be forgotten."
President Tallmadge then formally declared the monument dedicated, after which Mr. M.'D. Raymond, Chairman of the Committee of Arrangements, with a brief address as follows, committed the monument to the care and keeping of the .Sleepy Hollow Cemetery Association :
" It is fitting that on this historic spot, on this redoubt thrown up during the Revolution, that a monument to the men of the Revolution should be erected. In its massive simplicity it well typifies the clear granite of their character and their enduring strength. In a contest greater than they knew they contended manfully for the great cause of human liberty, and helped to lay broad and deep the foundations of the Republic. The thunder of guns salutes them to-day ; the flag which they followed waves above them ; we sing the pceans of victory in their praise ; they were our heroes, and we honor them.
This Monument shall stand a silent sentinel, keeping the watch of the ages over the hallowed graves of these patriots dead-- -an object lesson in patriotism to those who shall come -after us, a memento to them of what the men of this generation thought of the men of an hundred years ago, of one and another of whom, as the poet sings, it may well be said :