Excerpt from An Oration, Delivered on the 22d of February, 1813, at Washington Hall, in the City of New-York, Before the Hamilton Society

But able and virtuous statesmen are not less neces sary now, and Will not be less necessary hereafter, than they were at the eventful close of our revolution. No political contrivance is a perpetual motion the same powers are required to keep it in Operation, which were required to give the first impulse. I can imagine the Genius of the United States crowning With his hand those who have deserved well of their country, but his eye is directed to the rising genera tion.

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