In every quarter of the globe her influence is felt and recognized in all the impulses of liberty ; in all the progress of commerce; in every national question of finance ; in the marches of education ; the products of art ; in the inventions of genius ; in the achievements of skill and science ; in the circles of education and learning ; in the missions of Christian mercy ; in the hopefulness of emigration ; and, best of all, in the solution of national controversies by the arbitration of justice and peace, instead of the sword and cannon of war.

All these things for us are the natural outgrowth of the struggles, the sufferings of our Revolution, made possible and secure by the final triumph at York town.' It is often wished by patriotic hearts that it

might be permitted to the men and women of the Revolution, who achieved these things for us, to revisit once more the land of their toils, sufferings and love, and see the triumphs of their courage and virtues, in the blessed happiness and progress of their children.

But the next best thing, and perhaps the safest for us, is to recall their virtues -- to recount their deeds and sufferings -- and to honor their memories, and profit by their examples. This we do to-day by monument and story.

Nearly all through the Revolution, the City of New York was in possession of the British army. It was the entrepot of the armies of Kngland, and of the forces hired to conquer us. During the wholeperiod of the war, Westchester lay in the darkest shadow of the struggle. To be a Tory was dangerous, but to be a patriot was far more so. The marauders of the city plundered the country, often sparing neither friend nor foe -- oftentimes no man could lie dovm at night with assurance that he would rise in the morning, or rise with the assurance of food for the day, or of sleep for another night;