ceasing importunities (which reward she should have received as a reward for her fidelity to her husband, for she plead in the midst of her illness for the release of that husband) she received liberty upon a condition for him. What was the condition upon which she received liberty for him? The condition was, that he should not be found fighting again against the crown of Great Britain. She received liberty for him upon parole of honor. From whom did she receive it? From those that should have blushed when they were called men-when they were called the offspring of Christians.-Savages act nobly because it is nature within them prompting them to do so, but a mock nobleness was here exhibited, a nobleness artificially wrought up in the bosoms of hardened cruelty upon the one hand, by a most brilliant display of persevering and unyielding importunity, courage, faithful and exemplary virtuous actions upon the other. Where do we find this revolutionary heroinethis revolutionary mother to whose bosom was often clasped in fondness Capt. Samuel Dewees, (the subject of this address) in his early infancy-this relick of revolutionary times, before whom I am bold to assert I am proud to rise up and do him honors. Where do we find her after the release of her husband? Where do we find her that endeared herself to that husband by the sacred appellation of wife in truth? On her way homeward accompanied by that husband for whom she had made such a lofty sacrifice, and next upon a bed of death in the first FREE, INDEPENDENT, AND DIGNIFIED city of LIBERTY upon all earth-in Philadelphia, where she died ere she reached her home.

Well might that husband then have hung his harp in sorrow upon the willows and have exclaimed in the sad and bitter anguish of a deeply wounded and crushed heart.

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"Wo came with war and want with wo,
And it was mine to undergo

Each outrage of the cruel foe,

Can aught" on this cold earth "atone,

My fields made waste, my cots laid low,"
The spirit of a faithful wife ir

And I, sorrowing I, am left a

this flown,

Did that father suffer even the separating power of the king of terrors to pluck the sacred cause of a bleeding country from his patriotic and steel true heart-that heart which had but just drank so deeply of the imbittered fountains of sorrow? No. He followed her destinies with his bosom bared to the storms-followed her destinies until he fell a vietim himself to disease, in the hands of the stern monarch of the grave within the camp of

that country.

Who followed next in the patriotic wake of father, mother and brothers? Who? Our now aged veteran father Capt. Samuel Dewees. Capt. Dewees, then a boy, a stripling, but like to a David of old, a stripling, with a lion's heart and an eagle's eye. Who bound the all hallowed cause of a bleeding Columbia upon the front tablet of his young but patriotic heart? Captain Dewees; and time it is well known has not yet obliterated it. Where do we find him sometime after the decease of a country loving father? Next akin to barefoot, trudging the pathway alone to Valley Forge encampment. There to join the patriotic army a second time under the now immortal but then God-led father of his country-the ever to be venerated WASHINGTON-"Washington, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen." Where is that youthful sister? She that repaired to the camp of her country to nurse Capt. Dewees, her then youthful brother, when laid upon a bed of languishing with small pox. Where is that youthful sister who was left an unbefriended and friendless orphan with Capt. Dewees, her then youthful brother in the camp of her country by the decease of a brave, bold and fearless father? Where? In the tomb, to where her body was consigned in less than two months after the decease of her father. Her body. Yes! But where is the immortal part? Her pure, hallowed and innocent spirit of patriotism rests doubtless in the glorified bosom of her triumphant and redeeming God. Where do we behold our patriotic and now aged father, this paragon of bravery during the Revolutionary struggle? We find

him in the army of his country at Valley Forge, Brandywine, Easton, Lebanon, Germantown, Allentown, Philadelphia, Bethlehem, Lancaster, Carlisle, York and Chester in Pa., Wilmington and New Castle in Delaware, Baltimore in Maryland, Trenton, Princeton, Mor ristown, Somerset Court House and Elizabethtown Point in Jersey, and at Ticonderoga, Crown Point, West Point, White Plains, Fishkill, Long Island, Saratoga, Fort Schuyler, and Stoney Point in New York, and at other military posts then established within the colonies. The hardships which he endured in common with portions of the American soldiers at some of the above posts were of a cast sufficient to startle luxury and prompt her to ask on what was life sustained? For what did an American soldiery fight? She would doubtless be satisfied with any thing else in the form of an answer than sovereign truth as contained in the following: Sustained? On a biscuit and a herring per day for days and days together and these after starving for the space of two and three days at a time. For home, for country, for liberty, precious liberty, and for the eternal rights. natural and acquired of men-of Freemen..

To the praise of Captain Dewees be it stated, that no emergency has at any time arisen in the United States. since the ever memorable year of 1776, up to the year 1814, that our country's aged friend has not voluntarily stepped forth, patriotically participated in and borne a conspicuous part. He was one of a detachment that marched in 1782 into the then wilderness interior of Pennsylvania, above where Lewistown now stands, on the Juniata river. This expedition was ordered from Carlisle Barracks, against the Indians then engaged in butchering the inhabitants of that region of country. In that expedition a drummer was shot down near to where he (Capt. Dewees) stood.

He was commissioned a Captain in 1784-sometime after which he embraced the opportunity that offered to pay military respect and honors to Columbia's noble chieftain George Washington, when President of the

United States, and in a manner that reflects the greatest credit upon him as the commander of a company-doing that, which perhaps none other commissioned officer but himself would have done, by way of sacrifice, to have honored the illustrious Washington.

He marched a volunteer from Harrisburg, and was under the immediate command of Gen. Washington, (then President of the United States,) at Carlisle, and then under Governor Lee, of Virginia, in the "Western Expedition;" or, as it was also termed, the "Whiskey Insurrection," in the western parts of Pennsylvania-w one of the 15,000 troops that marched in that expedi tion in 1794 to Pittsburg, to put down this insurrectionary spirit, and sustain the Constitution and laws of his country.

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He was one of the great body of Pennsylvania troops called out in 1798 to put down what was called the Liberty Insurrection, in Northampton county, Pa., and remained in the field until the Constitution and laws of his country were again sustained and made triumphant.

When the difficulties originated between the American republic and the republic of France, in 1799, and the government of the United States ordered twelve new regiments to be raised for the purpose of being in readiness to repel the expected attacks of France-at this critical posture in the affairs of our country, where do we find Captain Dewees, whose aged heart still burns with patriotic love for his country? Where do we find him? We find him out in service again! We find him out upon a recruiting expedition in a town in Wayne county, Pa., and situated towards the head of the Delaware river, at Easton, Pa., and at Elizabethtown Point in Jersey.

Is it futile to put the language of the poet into the mouth of him who has so faithfully aided in gaining our Independence, and as faithfully assisted at all times in sustaining the Constitution and laws of our country?

"Cursed be the mad wretch that shall dare to destroy,
Our Rights which from Heaven's high God we enjoy,

And blasted their schemes whosoever shall strive,

The COMPACT of UNION asunder to rive.

'Tis ours undaunted to defend

The dear bought rich inheritance,
And spite of each invading hand,
We'll fight, bleed, die! in its defence;
Pursue our father's paths of fame,
And emulate their glorious flame!

The foe shall fly, when the brave are lead on,
By Freedom's pure and noble "Washington."

Ladies, Gentlemen and Volunteer Citizen Soldiers :

Am I done? No! The old unbroken spirit and spir ited soldier of '76 hears once more the bold noted clarion of war sounded aloud. The lion that long had slept has awoke, has aroused, is upon his feet and has shaken his mane and stands ready again for the combat. Captain Dewees at an advanced age in life buckled on his armor, and in 1813 and 1814, during the second war of Columbian Independence, made three trips or expeditions to Baltimore, one under Captain Hively, one under Captain Kerlinger, and one under Captain Showers. What? Captain Dewees a soldier of the last war?

Yes!

At the time of the invasion of the Chesapeake bay, by the British squadron, he was on his way to the State of Ohio. The news reached him when at Bloody Run, below Bedford, and he immediately turned him about and hastened him to Baltimore, where he stood one of the defenders of the city, at the advanced age of 55. Although I am a native of Pennsylvania, the KEY STONE State in the Grand Arch of a ÑATION's exalted TRIUMPH, yet proud I am to name Captain Dewees as one of the DEFENDERS of Baltimore to you, the Ladies, Gentlemen and Volunteer Citizen Soldiers, of GooD OLD PATRIOTIC MARYLAND and her sister States of our GLORIOUS UNION.

At the advanced age of 55, Captain Dewees performed the part of a musician to two regiments, and stood with musket in hand in the entrenchments at or near