yes as far as the Russian
Possessions, in latitude fifty-four degrees and forty minutes.
What a new world lies before you! How many magnificent States
to be the future homes of the sons and daughters of freedom!
But you have not gazed on half this glorious country. Turn now
your face to the east, where the morning sun first shines on
this land of liberty. Away yonder, you see the immortal old
thirteen, who achieved our independence; nearer to us lie the
twelve or fifteen States of the great valley of the
Mississippi, stretching and reposing like so many giants in
their slumbers. O! now I see your heart is full--it can take in
no more. Who now feels like he was a party man, or a southern
man, or a northern man? Who does not feel that he is an
American, and thankful to Heaven that his lot was cast in such
a goodly land? When did mental vision ever rest on such a
scene? Moses, when standing on the top of Mount Pisgah, looking
over on the promised land, gazed not on a scene half so lovely.
O! let us this day _vow_ that whatever else we may do, by
whatever name we may be called, we will never surrender one
square acre of this goodly heritage to the DICTATION of any
king or potentate on earth. SWEAR IT! SWEAR IT! my countrymen,
and let HEAVEN RECORD THE VOW FOR EVER!"

In conclusion, Governor, suffer a few words of advice, and I will bring
this letter, already too long, to a close. You are advanced in years,
nay, you have grown gray in the service of sin, and political intrigues;
and at most you have not long to live. Cease your political aspirations,
and turn your attention to future and eternal things! You have been a
member of our State Legislature; subsequently, a member of Congress; and
more recently the Governor of our State; honors and stations, to say the
least of it, equal to your merits and talents!

As a true "son of a now sainted father," from whom you have been
separated for many years, so demean yourself in future, that you may not
be separated, world without end! Humble yourself before God; confess
your numerous sins; and instead of lecturing God's ministers upon the
subject of party politics, ask them, with tears in your eyes, to pray
for you! Exercise a living faith in Christ, who came down from heaven,
and made upon the cross a full, perfect, and sufficient sacrifice,
oblation, and satisfaction, for the