Your achievements may not have sufficiently swelled
the historic page. They were performed by those who could better wield
the sword than the pen. By men whose constant dangers precluded them
from the leisure, and whose necessities deprived them of
the common implements of writing. But this is of little moment:
they remain recorded in such indelible characters upon our minds,
that neither change of circumstances nor length of time can efface them.
Taught by us, our children shall hereafter point out the places
and say to their children, here Gen. Marion, posted to advantage,
made a glorious stand in defence of the liberties of his country; there,
on disadvantageous ground, retreated to save the lives of his fellow citizens.
What could be more glorious for the general commanding free men
than thus to fight, and thus to save the lives of his fellow soldiers?
Continue general in peace to till those acres which you once wrested
from the hands of an enemy. Continue to enjoy dignity, accompanied with ease,
and to lengthen out your days blessed with the consciousness of conduct
unaccused of rapine or oppression, and of actions ever directed
by the purest patriotism.
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