Although no sculptured marble should rise to their memory, nor engraved stone bear record of their deeds, yet will their remembrance be as lasting as the land they honored.

Webster contrasts physical monuments—marble statues and engraved stones—with a more durable kind of memorial: collective memory rooted in a nation’s history. The sentence suggests that public service and sacrifice can outlast material commemoration, because a people’s identity is shaped by those who “honored” the land through their deeds. The rhetoric is elegiac and civic-minded, typical of early American oratory, using balanced clauses and elevated diction to argue that virtue earns an enduring place in national remembrance even when no formal tribute is erected. It implies that the truest monument is the continuing life of the country and the gratitude of later generations.