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monument—no stone bearing the record of their patroitic devotion to principle, and their more than heroic death!”

We understand that the “Martyrs’ Association” still entertain hopes of ultimately securing their object, and that they have made progress in their endeavors; that an appropiate lot of land on Fort Greene, or Washington Park, has been granted by the Common Council of the city of Brooklyn; and surely, we may hope that this attempt to honor the memory of the dead heroes will not prove abotive, as its predecessors have done.

To the citizens of New York and Brooklyn are peculiarly appropiate those solemn words of an ancient patriot, under circumstances not unlike out own—“Oh, my countrymen! these dead bodies ask no monument. Their monument arose when they fell, and as long as liberty shall have defenders, their names will be imperishable. But, oh, my countrymen, it is we, who survive, not having yet proved that we, too, could die for our country and be immortal. We need a monument, that the widows and children of the dead, and the whole country , and the shades of the departed, and all future ages, may see and know that we honor patriotism, and virtue, and liberty, and truth; for next to performing a great deed, and achieving a noble character, is to honor such characters and deeds!”