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 rest upon tradition, and on that short notice which general history can take of him; while no memorial, no slab even, raised by the hand of national gratitude, points us to his grave, or tells where sleep the ashes of the patriot and the sage. May we not hope, that this reproach upon the state, will soon be wiped away, and that ample atonement will be made for our past neglect?