Pray for his gallant spirit’s bright repose;
For he was Freedom’s Champion, one of those,
The few in number, who had not o’erstept
The charter to chastise, which she bestows
On such as wield her weapons; he had kept
The whiteness of his soul, and thus men o’er him wept.’
“To express the high sense entertained by his country of his services, Congress directed a monument of white marble, with the following inscription on it, which was executed by Mr. Cassiers, at Paris, and was placed in front of St. Paul’s church, New York:
THIS MONUMENT
was erected by order of
Congress, 25th January, 1776,