Gentlemen while the name of this city recalls important military remembrance, it is also connected with that of the illustrious college, which, in diffusing knowledge and liberal sentiments, has greatly contributed to turn those successes to the advantage of public liberty. Your library has been destroyed but your principles were printed in the hearts of American patriots. I feel much obliged, Sir, to your kind recollection of the diploma, which the signature of my respected friend Doctor Witherspoon, renders still more precious to me and I beg you, gentlemen, and you, interesting grandsons of my contemporary friends, to accept my affectionate acknowledgments.