"...when the grave closes on me you will not neglect to support the principles that your father so often ventured his life to establish, and so many of your uncles lost their lives in support of, principles that gave your country birth, a free and independent nation that secures to you and your children life, liberty and property, and the equal rights of your fellow men (not that I have any doubt you will do so), but I wish to leave it as an injunction on you, and on my grandsons, and if I could, on the world of mankind in general. And although these principles have been disregarded and violated by corrupt and unholy men, yet I trust that there is a redeeming spirit abroad in the land ; that the people will return to their first love, and check the career of designing demagogues (who like wolves in sheep's clothing, have assumed to themselves the name of Democrats) and revive those principles before they become"
Before his Death in August of 1837, General John Burrows wrote a memoir