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zens of State, be it remembered, that her venerable Gov- 

 ernor WHARTON of the State in Schuylkill, Mayor 

 of Philadelphia, then late commander of the First Troop, 

 and at that time Brigadier General elect, volunteered and 

 served in the campaign of 1814, at Mount Bull in the 

 ranks, under his friend and successor, Captain Charles 

 Boss, formerly his First Lieutenant. 



The present esteemed commander of the Troop, Cap- 

 tain Hart, is now a private citizen of the State. 



A strong affinity has ever existed between these civil and 

 military associations, and under every consideration the 

 ties of ancestral relationship, and continued good fellow- 

 ship, ought to bind them and their successors to cultivate 

 and maintain the generous and friendly dispositions of 

 social intercourse. 



In the blameless diversions of the institution, indulged 

 in but occasionally by its members, as a relaxation from 

 the severer duties of society and the ordinary business of 

 life, to which return from the Castle's recreations is made 

 with renewed ardor and zest, none but the fastidious and 

 morose, themselves incapable of the like innocent enjoy- 

 ment, can find cause of the slightest censure. 



The proverb is a wise one, tested by universal experi- 

 ence; that, 

 " Unbending the bow preserves its elasticity and strength.^' 



If business was usually neglected for the mere indul- 

 gence of pleasure, or habits of dissipation or extravagance 

 were formed by the association, a sentence of condemnation 



