MR. BUCKINGHAM’S ADDRESS 
TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES. 
New-York, October 25, 1837. 
Men, Breturen, anv Fe.ttow-Cunistians : 
Tue numbers of human beings that every day approach your shores from all parts of 
the old world, cacy so apap you = ai eh “a etrengers from every quarter 98 
the globe, as to just 
special account, since “i would be impossible for you to show it to: every individual of so 
countless a multitude, and without some grounds on which to establish exceptions, 
none could be fairly expected to be made. This consideration, while it will fortify me 
in the propriety of the step I am taking, will also, I trust, dispose you to lend a favora- 
ble attention to a short statementof the circumstances which have driven me to your 
shores, of the motives which impel me to the course I am pursuing, and of the objects 
which I hope, under the blessing of Providence, and with your aid and protection, to 
accomplish. 
A train of events, much too numerous to be narrated in detail, occasioned me very 
early in life to leave my native country, England, and to visit most of the nations of 
Europe — still more of the interior of Asia— many parts of the continent of Africa — 
and some portions also of the two Americas. It was after an active life of some twenty 
years thus devoted, in which it fell to my lot to traverse, I believe, a larger portion - 
earth’s surface, and to visit a greater number and variety of countries, than 
ny man living of my age, that I settled as a resident in the capital of the Bri- 
tish possessions in India, where I remained for several years. 
During the voyages and travels that I was permitted to make along the shores of the 
per cr amidst the Isles of Greece, in Asia Minor, Egypt, Nubia, Palestine, 
yria, A 
ments of ancient greatness in the several countries named ; oe the gigamttic py- 
fain “ temples, stately obelisks, majestic statues, and gloom 
which stud the classic banks of the Nile, from Alexandria and Grand Cairo 
to the Peiarectt of Syene; the hoary mountains of Horeb and Sinai, and the Desert of 
Wandering, across which the children of Israel were led from out of the land of Egypt, 
to the promised Canaan; the plains of Moab and Ammon, with Mount Pisgah, the 
valley of Jordan, and the Dead Sea; the ruined cities of Tyre and sare the ports 
Joppa, Acre, and Cesarea; “s villages of Nazareth and Cana of 3; the cities of 
Sechem, Samaria, and Bethlehem; the moun untains of Lebanon, seeiting Tabor, and 
Carmel; ie Mount of Olives and Mount Zion; the holy city of Jerusalem, with all its 
sacred localities, from the pools of Siloam and Bethesda, near the brook Kedron, in 
the valley of Jehoshaphat, to the more touching and endearing spots of the Garden of 
hsemane, Rock of Calvary, and the sepulchre in which the body of our Lord 
was laid. 
While these were the objects of my inspection in Egypt, Arabia, and Palestine, the 
Scriptural countries of Syria and Mesopotamia were scarcely less prolific in the abun- 
dance of the materials which they presented to my view. In the former were the sea- 
