These passed through the line, conducted by General Hammond and suite, and the Marshal of the day, to the place reserved for them on the right of the monument, and the whole procession having passed through in this order, the military escort formed a square about the whole in the church-yard. At this spot, the column was met by a large procession of the ladies of the county, under the direction of S. Simpson, Esq., who acted as assistant marshal of the day, issuing from the church, at the

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head of which, supported upon the arm of a friend, was the venerable widow of the deceased, followed l>y his surviving sister, also supported; and next cauie the female children and grand-children of the deceased, a goodly number ; after whom, followed a large train of matrons and misses, amounting to four or five hundred in number. The whole of this interesting group having assembled within the yard, and about the monument, the Rev. David Remington, pastor of the church to which the deceased belonged, addressed the throne of Grace, in a very solemn and appropriate manner; after which, ' Colonel Ward, a the orator of the day, was conducted to the platform prepared for the occasion, where he delivered the following address. (It was afterwards printed at the request of the committee of arrangements).

Friends ! Fellow citizens ! and Soldiers !

We have assembled on an interesting occasion, a solemn, not a melancholy one. We have come to this spot, to discharge a part of our duty, to one who has paid the debt of nature -- to bring with us, as it were, each a stone from our quarries, fitted and prepared to build a monumental pile, to a departed patriot ; one who fell not in the hour of battle, contending for our liberties, but who lived to see our country prosperous and happy, delivered from all her troubles, and then gathered like a shock of corn ripe for the harvest.