soil may be hard ; but labor compels it to be bountiful. Her climate 

 may be liarsh ; but it gives stren2;lb and elasticity to the muscles, 

 and the brightness of its own stars to the mind. Her voice in 

 winter may be sometimes hoarse, and her face wrinkled and frown- 

 ing ; but her children will not love her the less for a sternness of 

 discipline, by which she trains them up in habits of unremitting labor 

 and self-dependence ; and thus qualifies them to be the blessings 

 and ornaments of their own community ; the substantial pillars of the 

 federal edifice ; and the pioneers of learning, civilization, humanity, 

 and religion in the boundless West. 



I am glad, even in the most humble form, to contribute to that 

 large amount of good, which the Commonwealth is deriving from 

 your patriotic services. I am particularly happy. Sir, that in any 

 public service my name should be associated with yours ; from 

 considerations of honor to myself, and not less, from the sentiments 

 of high personal regard with which I have the pleasure to subscribe 

 myself, 



Your fellow-citizen, 



HENRY COLiMAN. 



Boston, Feb. 22, 1838. 



