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The troops now formed an extensive hollow square in the 
churchyard and terminated solemnities with three volleys over 
the coffin in its grave, while the immense throng, white, and 
still aghast, unreconciled, dispersed. Then the bells tolled 
until sundown, whereupon the city and the people wore mourn- 
ing for a month, the bar for six weeks; and, in due time, the 
leading men of the parish decided upon the monument which 
should mark to future generations the cold and narrow home 
of him who had been so warm in life, loving as few men had 
loved, exulted in the wide greatness of the empire he had 
created. Hence, the monument bears the following inscrip- r 
tion: 
TO THE MEMORY OF 
ALEXANDER HAMILTON 
THE CORPORATION OF TRINITY HAVE ERECTED 
THIS 
MONUMENT 
IN TESTIMONY OF THEIR RESPECT 
FOR 
THE PATRIOT OF INCORRUPTIBLE INTEGRITY 
THE SOLDIER OF APPROVED VALOUR 
THE STATESMAN OF CONSUMMATE WISDOM 
WHOSE TALENTS AND VIRTUES WILL BE ADMIRED 
BY 
GRATEFUL POSTERITY 
LONG AFTER THIS MARBLE SHALL HAVE 
MOULDERED TO DUST 
HE DIED JULY 12TH 1804 AGED 47 
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