240 On the Correspondence of Governor D. D. Tompkins. 



sum might not unworthily have been bestowed upon the family of one 

 whose father had been so ungratefully t rented) with this small sum, 

 the State has secured in these manuscripts and letters from his own 

 hand, the materials for a monument more likely to perpetuate a grate- 

 ful remembrance of his devoted and denying patriotism to the State 

 and nation than would be the erection of a lofty pile of monumental 

 marble. 



