Excerpt from An Oration, Delivered on the 22d of February, 1813, at Washington Hall, in the City of New-York, Before the Hamilton SocietyThe heads of our. Statesmen are of as much greater consequence than the hearts of our soldiers, as the hand which sets a machine in motion, is of more ao count than the machine which it moves.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.