. Down the eastern and up the Black . ng on the oldmeeting-house still stained with theblood of patriots; falling on the little oc-:^ tagonal school-house near to the grave- yard, the walls of which served asbreast-works in the fight; falling on thegraves of Revolutionary soldiers, unknown to all save God. Generous hearts have raised upon this battle-field, twomonuments to Lafayette, and fa-mous orators have told his worthto those who have gathered roundthem, until his name and person-ality are singularly familiar. Per-haps too much has not, will not,can not, be said of the hero o
. Down the eastern and up the Black . ng on the oldmeeting-house still stained with theblood of patriots; falling on the little oc-:^ tagonal school-house near to the grave- yard, the walls of which served asbreast-works in the fight; falling on thegraves of Revolutionary soldiers, unknown to all save God. Generous hearts have raised upon this battle-field, twomonuments to Lafayette, and fa-mous orators have told his worthto those who have gathered roundthem, until his name and person-ality are singularly familiar. Per-haps too much has not, will not,can not, be said of the hero oftwo worlds, whom Washingtoncalled his son; but, as the shadowyheroes troop along the horizonof this consecrated ground, myeyes rest on a plainer face, stampedwith simplicity and stern morality;my thoughts turn toward a QuakerGeneral, whose skill and prowesssaved the field of Brandywine, andmany another, from grave disaster. Honor to Lafayette! and honor, also, to Nathaniel Greene!the greatest military genius that the Revolutionary War TAYLORS Monument to the MemoryOF Lafayette. [ 176
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