Excerpt from Biographical Sketch, and Services of Commodore Charles Stewart, of the Navy of the United States
Pennsylvania may justly claim the honor of having contributed as largely to the proud list of American philosophers, statesmen and heroes, as any other State in the Union; and yet, in consequence of the peculiarly unostentatious and unpretending character of her people, she has hitherto forborne to assume the rank, or lay claim to the honor, to which the merits and services of her sons justly entitle her. Reposing on the justice of this claim, and upon the concession that she is the "keystone" of the federal arch, and that her honest, industrious and patriotic yeomanry are unrivalled in all the attributes that render a State great, prosperous and happy, she has never singled out from the constellation of her sons, for especial commendations, the "bright and shining" stars with which that constellation is adorned.
What a galaxy of glory is concentrated in the names of Franklin, Rittenhouse, Rush, Fulton, Morris, M"Kean, Wayne, Brown, Decatur, James Biddle, and Stewart! How proudly do we point to this array of illustrious citizens! The world will perceive in this list the genius who snatched the lightning from the skies; the man who went deep into the mysteries of creation, and
"Looked through nature up to nature"s God;"
and he who, with a skill which has rendered him immortal, encountered death at the sick man"s bed, and stayed his uplifted arm: and he who, by a certain modification of machinery, the result of his own all-conquering genius, has filled the waters with steamboats, and created a new agent in the application of steam power; he who rescued the country from impending bankruptcy, in the period of the Revolution; and he who rivalled the Cokes and Mansfields of England, and brought order, harmony and effect out of the confusion of the law; and he who was the hero of Stony Point, the hero of Fort Erie, and the conqueror of the Macedonian - the conqueror of the Penguin, and the conqueror of the Cyane and Levant, were all Pennsylvanians.
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