Mr. Buckingham’s Address. 
from sees hela the Lager Archipelago, by lege Java, Sumatra, and Malacca, 
to India se the Pen of Hindoostan, from the Ganges to the Indus, and re- 
turn to re ‘by the Red ‘Sea 4 the Statice bec 
Throughout the whole of this long and varied route, there are a few prominent and 
important objects, which, as they have been long favorite subjects of study, and have 
engaged a large share of my attention in the past, I shall hope to keep steadily in view, 
and do all within my power to advance in the future. It has long been my conviction, 
that among the most prolific causes of vice and misery in the world, those of Intemper- 
ance, Ignorance, Cruelty, ond Reins are productive oi the geaems evils; and ae the best 
to his fellow , hy every means 
within his reach, the principles and practice of Temperance, Bdacat Gon, ccna, 
and Peace. My belief is, that more of sympathy and cordiality in favor of these great 
objects will be found in the United States of America, than in any other country on the 
siete. Already, maneed than any other country that can be named 
mperance, the spread of Educa ation, the amelioration of the 
= ala code, the i eco of prisons and penitentiaries, and the practical illustra- 
sun, ae can stretch out her right hand to Asia and her left hand to Europe, and cause 
her moral he ee to be felt from Constantinople to Canton—she has the means with- 
in reach, as wes as mae Poon to use those means, for the still further propaga- 
tion It is this which encourages me to believe 
that my ulterior ponerse ae Ee es which I thus a eery avow, will not lessen the 
cordiality with which the t of my mission to Ren ™ shores 
will be received. ae core now a with the descendants of the Pilgri 
unyie' it: fleeing to the om anare 
from tyranny and persecution, rete in its primeval forests the 
liberty they in vain sought for in their native homes, and whose posterity, while filling 
these forests on cities, and earns the wilds with pias and religion, have ne- 
ver forgotten those lessons of Freedom which their ancestors first taught by their a ee 
tical privations — sites pad then sealed and cemented by t thei eir blood — me 
land is not likely t laim 
to the sympathy of its possessors, s wha} present labors may be ‘paodoalive of intellec- 
tual gratification to themselves, and whose future undertakings, if blessed by Divine 
hi sag may sow the seeds, at least, of benefit to other widely-scattered regions 
of earth. 
To you, then, the People of America, I frankly submit this appeal: and at your hands 
I doubt not I shall experience that cordial and friendly reception which may smooth the 
ruggedness of a Pilgrim’s path, and sooth the pillow of an Exile’s repose. 
J. S. BUCKINGHAM. 
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