Eauguage is inadequate to express the debt, which we as a people owe to them. iVll that we are, in the vast expanse of our domain, in our established principles of local self control and of Federal power, extending its protecting arm over all ; in all our material development and wealth ; in all our intellectual advancement, colleges, schools, free press and general diffusion of intelligence among the people ; and in the myriad free homes which dot our fair land as the stars gem the arches of night ; all that we are to-day and all that we may hope ever to be, we owe and shall owe to those men, -- to their keen comprehension of the true principles of human government, to their constancy through toil, suffering and defeat, and to their unsurpassed valor on fields of blood.

MONUMENT DEDICATION.

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In the broadest sense, we dedicate this monument to patriotism everywhere throughout our great expanse, from ocean to ocean and from lakes to gulf. What years these are, and of late have been, for the revival of patriot sentiment. These numerous societies, descendants of Colonial ancestors and of Revolutionary sires; this Grand Army of the Republics with its half million survivors of the men who so bravely fought to save what their fathers established, and their worthy offspring, these Sons of Veterans, all are but the national fruitage of this great awaking. In turn they recreate and reproduce a hundred fold that patriotism which- created and produced them. To no other of those honored societies is this tribute of commendation more due than to the two composed of descendants of the men of the Revolution and known as "The Sons of the Revolution" and "The Sons of the American Revolution." Upon such occasions as this, at least, it is to be deeply regretted, that those two great organizations of common origin, with, a common law of being, and with common purposes, are not in fact as in spirit one.