A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . shington in makingthe union of these States possible sleeps at one end ofthe Island of Manhattan, and at the other rests on hislaurels the soldier whose skill and patriotism kept theUnion indissoluble. Alexander Hamiltons grave isin Trinity Church-yard ; General Grants tomb is atRiverside Park ; and between, under the walls of anold church which he founded, moulders the dust ofbrave, hot-headed Petrus Stuyvesant, last and mostgallant of the old Dutch Governors of the city which can boast such dust
A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . shington in makingthe union of these States possible sleeps at one end ofthe Island of Manhattan, and at the other rests on hislaurels the soldier whose skill and patriotism kept theUnion indissoluble. Alexander Hamiltons grave isin Trinity Church-yard ; General Grants tomb is atRiverside Park ; and between, under the walls of anold church which he founded, moulders the dust ofbrave, hot-headed Petrus Stuyvesant, last and mostgallant of the old Dutch Governors of the city which can boast such dust in its soil has aright to plume itself on its past. 138 A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK Illustrious men lie buried in every corner of thechurch-yard of old Trinity. Francis Lewis, a signerof the Declaration of Independence and a typical NewYork merchant, is interred there ; and his son, Lewis, a soldier of 1812, sleeps at his Gallatin, the distinguished Secretary of theTreasury; Col. Marinus Willett, of Revolutionarymemory ; William Bradford, colonial printer and ed-. TOMB OF ALBERT GALLATIN itor; Robert Fulton, who launched the first steamboaton the Hudson ; Captain Lawrence, who lost the Ches-apeake, but sent his last battle-cry, Dont give up theship! ringing down the centuries; Bishop Hobart,grand pioneer of the cross; Gen. Phil Kearne3% theMurat of the latest struggle for liberty—these are buta few of the mighty men who rest in peace under theshadow of Trinitys spire. And the women ? Ah,who shall fitly hymn their praise and tell the story ofthe mingled sweetness and strength of the lives they A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK 139 quietly lived and that yet smell sweet and blossomin the dust, and of the other lives that they nurturedup into honor and renown, content to shine by theirreflected light? Of all the inscriptions on stone in theold burial-ground at the head of Wall Street, the mosttouching to me is that which measures the span of lifeof Captain Lawrences widow
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