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;

Out of the darkness of seven years of such conditions gleam the lights of devoted heroism that will be depicted to you by the speaker of the day. Hear and consider, and once and again highly resolve that Gover'i ment of the people , for the people , by the people , shall not perish from the earth. ' '

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MCE more amidst her busy life, the old Manor of Philipsburg pauses, to pay the megd of well earned praise and obligation to her men of the Revolution. Once more she bares her -head and bends the knee in reverent honor before their hallowed graves. Such homage is to her but nature. Her very air is sweet with the perfume of patriot memories. Throughout our State, here and there, _ in sacred churchyard and wayside cemetery, moulder the mortal part of its Revolutionary heroes. Nowhere in all its territory are the graves of those, men to be found more frequent relatively, or better preserved and known, or locally held in more tender regard, than right here in ancient Sleepy Hollow, where to-day we have unveiled in their honor the memorial shaft.