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Michigan Address of Col. Isaac D. Toll
Belen and Cosrne, the Puerite Nacional, the historic cypresses, arching the ascent of the " Collegio Militar," the West Point of Mexico, centuries old when Cortez conquered, " waving over them their green leaves," mute witnesses of their valor as of their rest—all point to " stranger's eye, the graves of those that cannot die."
New York, Pennsylvania and Kentucky, among other states, have inscribed upon granite their appreciation of the services of those of their respective commonwealths, who, more than a generation ago, went with you to common fields. May our own proud Michigan follow their example; then may her patriot sons point with more significance to her motto, " Tuebor." Then may our youth, emulous of a fame most exalted, as the bulwark of constitutional liberty, with heaving breast draw in the lesson of patriotism more fully, as together the marbles of the wars of 1846 and 1861, speak—" sic itur ad astra."
Long is the list of comrades gone before, In recollection fond, in history's lore
They are recorded,
And their influence bright will gladden all Until the light of setting sun be cast, In mild effulgence on the last.
Mexican War
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