CONTENTS. Page - 11 Major-general William Moultrie, 348 Brigadier-general Count Pulaski, Major-generat Philip Schuyler, 351 PREFACE IT has been truly said, that HISTORY is PHILOSOPHY, teaching by example,Nothing is a greater incentive to the practice of VIRTUE than the applause of mankind. FAME is the GOAL to which all press forward. To attain celebrity, EROSTRATUS fired the TEMPLE of EPHESUS; CRESUS, King of LYDIA, sought to become the richest of the HUMAN RACE; and ALEXANDER, son of Philip, of Macedon, the Conqueror of the WORLD.. The effect of example on the refine ment of society has been properly regarded, in its progressive stages: to profit by which, much of the labours of Philosophy have been directed. In remote antiquity, the virtues of good, and the actions of great men, were only reflected by the imperfect mirror of oral tradition, and, hence, the early patterns of VIRTUE and GREATNESS became the deities of ancient, heathen worship. In after times, the chisel and the pencil were employed, în vain, to perpetuate the renown of warriors, philosophers, and statesmen, because the labours of the artist perished in the corroding grasp of TIME, and OBLIVION would have triumphed over MEMORY, were it not for the genius of a CADMUS* and a FAUST. A more splendid monument of national gratitude, for services rendered, in honour of the brave, the wise, or the great, is a faithful recital of their a chievements. It serves as a stimulus to the practice of virtue, when the Sculptor's and the Painter's works are lost in the vortex of ages. * A Phoenician, the inventor of letters. The inventor of the art of Printing. |