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 :

' Right in the van,

On the red rampart's slippery swell.

With heart that beat a charge, they fell,

Foe ward as fits a man ;

But the high soul burns on to light men's feet Where death for noble ends makes dying sweet.'

To the President and Officers of Sleepy Hollow Cemetery Association : Into your hands this monument is committed in the trust that you will guard it well."

D. Ogden Bradley, as President of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery Association, said in reply :

" In behalf of the officers of this Cemetery Association, I accept

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this trust. We will carefully guard the monument, hoping that it will not only aid to perpetuate the memory of the heroic men whose names are enrolled upon it, bnt that it will stimulate patriotism and love of country in many generations yet to come. Tablets of stone will contribute their part, but the great nation itself is, and always will be, the best possible memento of those self-sacrificing Westchester County yeomen. It is an interesting circumstance, that the earthwork, which surrounds us and on which so many of you are now standing, was thrown up during the Revolution by these men themselves, so that they fabricated with their own hands the most distinguishing feature of the monument, which after the lapse of more than a century we are dedicating to their memory.