Beyond his own deserts, Greene was fortunate during life in the praise of Washington, who wrote of “the singular abilities which that officer possesses,”[225]--and then again fortunate after death in the praise of Hamilton, whose remarkable tribute is no ordinary record.[226] He has been fortunate since in his biographer, whose work promises to be classical in our literature.[227] And now he is fortunate again in a statue, which, while taking an honorable place in American art, is the first to be received in our Pantheon. Such are the honors of patriot service. Among the generals of the Revolution Greene was next after Washington. His campaign at the South showed military genius of no common order. He saved the South. Had he lived to take part in the National Government, his character and judgment must have secured for him an eminent post of service. Unlike his two great associates, Washington and Hamilton, his life was confined to war; but the capacities he manifested in command gave assurance that he would have excelled in civil life. His resources in the field would have been the same in the council chamber. Of Quaker extraction, Greene was originally a Quaker. The Quaker became a soldier and commander of armies. Such was the requirement of the epoch. Should a soldier and commander of armies in our day accept ideas which enter into the life of the Quaker, the change would only be in harmony with those principles which must soon prevail, ordaining peace and good-will among men. Looking at his statue, with military coat and with sword in hand, I seem to see his early garb beneath. The Quaker general could never have been other than the friend of peace. Standing always in that beautiful Hall, the statue will be a perpetual, though silent orator. The marble will speak; nor is it difficult to divine the lesson it must teach. He lived for his country, and his whole country,--nothing less. Born in the North, he died in the South, which he had made his home. The grateful South honored him as the North had already done. His life exhibits the beauty and the reward of patriotism. How can his marble speak except for country in all its parts and at all points of the compass? It was for the whole country that he drew his sword of “ice-brook temper.” So also for the whole country was the sword drawn in these latter days. And yet there was a difference between the two occasions easy to state.