Kinlock Huger, who was born in 1764, and died at Charleston, S. C., February, 1855, at the great age of ninety-one years. It was he who, with the generous Bollman, made the attempt to rescue Lafayette from the dungeon of Olmutz. Huger, for this offence, was placed eight months in close confinement in an Austrian prison. He came home to serve his country in the War of 1812, and was honored with a seat in both branches of the legislature of his own State.

We ought never to lose sight of our obligations for the Revolutionary services of the Middle States. New Jersey in 1776 became a great battle-ground on which the fortunes of the Revolution were once at stake. Washington was there with his army, and, amid perils and obstacles of fearful proportions, held his position with an almost superhuman firmness, wisdom, skill, and persistency. His own army was disunited, many threatening to quit the ranks, some tempted by Loyalists to desert his command and join the forces of an enemy proud, strong, and defiant. Forced at length to cross the Delaware and pass from New Jersey into Pennsylvania, it was only a timely reinforcement, of troops from that State, of which Philadelphia generously furnished fifteen hundred, that saved him from a disastrous defeat. This reinforcement enabled him to cross the Delaware, and on the field of Princeton win a victory which breathed hope into a desponding people, and gave a new lustre to the name of our immortal chief.

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this result the country was largely indebted to one of the Pennsylvanian commanders by whose determined energy those troops had been raised in an adjoining State.

It is not easy to estimate our obligations to New Jersey for military leaders in the Revolution. Give their due weight, in this regard, to her noble services on the fields of Princeton, Monmouth, and elsewhere. Consider the strength of her patriotism, her resistance to the disloyal within her own borders, who constantly opposed her spirit, and-by enticing men to desert our American army, or by enlisting or tempting others to enlist in the British army-would baffle her best efforts in the cause of freedom and independence. Compute also her direct contributions to the Patriot army in the form both of money and men. In that day of small things, out of a population of about one hundred thousand, she raised for the war nearly twenty thousand men, including almost every male capable of bearing arms. Add to all this the wise and steadfast counsels of New Jersey in her Provincial Congress, her early and ready cooperation with the Continental Congress, and the blending of her voice and her vote in the great united resolve for the Declaration of Independence, and you will accord to her a larger part of her sometimes unappreciated dues.

What shall we say of the claims of Pennsylvania? To omit all special notice of them would be gross injustice. In Chester County, Pennsyl

vania, was born, January 1, 1745, Anthony Wayne. He had martial blood in his veins; his grandfather was in the famous battle of the Boyne, and his father was in several engagements with the Indians. As a young man he was in the Pennsylvania convention and in its legislature. When but thirty years old, in September, 1775, he raised a regiment of volunteers, was commissioned as colonel, and joined General Sullivan in Canada early in 1776. Prominent in the battle of Three Rivers, he was in command of the fortresses of Ticonderoga and Mount Independence. A brigadier-general in May 1777, he was in the army of Washington in New Jersey. Fearless and persistent, at the battle of Brandywine we see him all day opposing the right wing of Howe, and only at sunset does he retreat. At Germantown he leads the attack on the enemy. During the winter he, lion-like, makes a raid within the British lines and captures cattle, horses, and forage. His skilful movements at Monmouth are commended by Washington in his account of that battle. The next year he surprises and captures the strong garrison of Stony Point on the Hudson, and is wounded in the engagement, for which services he receives the thanks of Congress and a gold medal. He is ordered to join the army at the South, and at Jamestown, Virginia, by a gallant, dauntless, and prompt attack he saves the forces of Lafayette from defeat. He closes his brilliant career by aiding in the capture of Cornwallis, soon after which he is assigned to a com