Robert Patterson's services to the cities of Lexington and Dayton were many. He was valiant in ridding the country of the savages and making it a safe place to live. He was always in the post of the greatest danger; commanding the advance in the march on Kaskaskia, protecting the retreat after General St. Clair's defeat. In times of peace he was interested in churches and schools, vineyards, good roads, stockraising and bridge building. He was one of the first to bring a school-master to the hamlet of Lexington and to aid in the purchase of the first library. In Dayton he was prominent in all public enterprises, was made Quartermaster in the War of 1812, helped found the First Presbyterian Church, built mills, promoted the canal and in every way devoted himself to works of public benefit. His descendants are among the Goodlets and Steeles, of Kentucky; the Browns, Irvins, Andersons, Evans and Nisbets of Ohio. Robert Patterson was one of the masters of the early times and his memory should be kept green in the two cities whose foundations he laid and whose fortunes he did so much to foster. LEXINGTON. The morn beheld the battle strife- The Rubicon of doubt was past, An empire lost, a birth-right wonWhen Freedom's banner braved the blast, Flashing its splendors far and fast From crimsoned Lexington! When nations search their brightest page For deeds that gild the olden age, Shining the meteor-lights of story- Fair Gallia point with a kindling eye Old Scotia, too, with joy shall turn Land of the free! though young in fame, Earth may not boast a nobler name. Plataea's splendor is not thine Leuctra, nor Marathon; Yet look where lives in glory's line, -Prosper Montgomery Wetmore. WASHINGTON. BY LORD BROUGHAM. How grateful the relief which the friend of mankind, the lover of virtue, experiences when his eye rests upon the greatest man of our own or of any age-the only one upon whom an epithet so thoughtlessly lavished by men, to foster the crimes of their worst enemies, may be innocently and justly bestowed! With none of that brilliant genius which dazzles ordinary minds; with not even any remarkable quickness of apprehension; this eminent person is presented to our observation clothed in attributes as modest, as unpretending, as little calculated to strike or to astonish, as if he had passed unknown through some secluded region of private life. But he had a judgment sure and sound; a steadiness of mind which never suffered any passion, or even feeling to ruffle its calm; a strength of understanding which worked rather than forced its way through all obstaclesremoving or avoiding rather than overleaping them. If profound sagacity, unshaken steadiness of purpose, the entire subjugation of all the passions which carry havoc through ordinary minds, and oftentimes lay waste the fairest prospects of greatness-nay, the discipline of those feelings which are wont to lull or to seduce genius, and to mar and to cloud over the aspect of virtue herself-joined with, or rather leading to, the most absolute self-denial, the most habitual and exclusive devotion to principle-if these things can constitute a great character, without either quickness of apprehension, or resources of information, or inventive powers, or any brilliant quality that might dazzle the vulgar-then surely Washington was the greatest man that ever lived in this world uninspired by Divine wisdom, and unsustained by supernatural virtue. Nor could the human fancy create a combination of qualities, even to the very wants and defects of the subject, more perfectly fitted for the scenes in which it was his lot to bear the chief part, whether we regard the war which he conducted, the |