Even the children of patriot families were not safe from their cruel rage, as witness their notorious mutilation of three boys near Dohhs Ferry, an act so horrible and so foul, that its detailed character cannot be explained here. To the everlasting credit of the patriots of this manor, be it -said that no act of inhumanity, even by way of retaliation, stains their peerless record.

The great majority of them, happily, survived the war, enjoyed the glad time of peace, and long years afterward were tenderly and reverently laid away in this hallowed soil, the last one in November, 1851, but little more than forty years ago.

The mists of time have obscured, at least in our minds, all ranks and social distinction. We remember to-day of each one only the fact, that be served well in the Continental forces. The great renown of that simple fact obliterates all differences. To the lowest private as well as to the Colonel of the regiment let equal praise be given.

You may read through that roll of honor, inscribed upon the monument's face, and you will not find in it the name of the lord of the manor. Fie loved his king better than his country and paid the penalty, just, though severe, in forfeiture of estates and banishment from home. Across the ocean in a far-distant land is his sepulchre, well nigh forgotten ; while to-day, here in the heart of his old manor, this vast federal Government, by representatives from its army and navy, and speaking through the thunder of its war ships; and this great State represented in the person of its prominent officials ; and above and over them all the sovereign people in assembled thousands, thronging these streets, overflowing the cemetery's slopes and crests