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Show The old Phillip Schuyler mansion still stands in Albany and just now there ia a movement on hand to preserve it. The Herald gives a picture of the old mansion, of the old general, 'of the old historic staircase in the house, and of Elizabeth Schuyler, who was Alexander Hamilton's wife, and looking at those pictures and then to think , of tha men whom they in Albany are balloting to elect for sen-stor, sen-stor, and one cannot shake off the impression that the old stock in that capital waa better than the present Of course Elizabeth Schuyler waa exalted by becoming the wife of the matchlesa Alexander Hamilton, but in thia old picture- her face shines out elear and bright and one can see why she, in her girlhood, made such a picture aa drew the great Hamilton to her. It is said that in extraordinary emergencies great men stand forth ready to meet the requirements, and certainly in our revolution there were a few of thoxe men that did stand in the breach between their country and their country's foes, who were altogether worthy of the trust that waa put upon them. They certainly made uo a great array. There waa Hamilton, there waa Jefferson, Jef-ferson, there wss Patrick Henry, there waa Itiilip Schuyler, there waa Ben Franklin, there was Pink-ney, Pink-ney, Monroe, Morris, the indomitable Iutnam and Knox, and over all the austere Washington, all fields were represented, and never on the birth of a nation did a atatelier group stand and watch. Possibly another great emergency would bring out like great men, but one would think that the legislature in Albany would take from the walla the pictures of Schuyler and Wright and Seward and Clinton and the others and go down to a prize ring somewhere and pick up the pictures t; teke their places. |