TO 



THE YOU N G MEN* 



OF 



OHIO. 



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This volume is respectfully dedicated to yon, and as the des- 

 tiny of this great state soon will be, so this book is delivered 

 to you for safe keeping. In writing this volume, my thoughts 

 have always rested on you, in the full confidence that you will 

 carry out all the great measures of your fathers ; that you 

 will rectify our errors, and keep pace with the age in which 

 you will live. Your fathers have done more than they even, 

 ask you to do. They have even gone ahead of the age in 

 which they lived. Their toils, sufferings and privations have 

 been but feebly depicted by me in this work, because, I did 

 not wish to boast in their names of what they had done, as a 

 duty which they owed to their children- 



The liberties of this country, have been preserved by those 

 who achieved them; and their suns have also preserved them 

 until very recently; but great efforts have been made, are 

 making, and will be made to pull from beneath it, all the main 

 pillars, on which our temple of liberty rests. So far as I could 

 in this volume, place before you the principles of your fathers, 

 as the cynosure of liberty, I have fearlessly done so. 



I have every where, spoken exultingly of the future, but 

 my young friends, candor compels me to confess, that all such 



