AMERICAN INSTITUTE. Ill 



nerj to us more precious than all the gorgeous splendor of 

 royalty. 



Now, ladies and gentlemen, allow me to close these crude re- 

 marks by declaring that the managers and the whole body of the 

 Institute are most happy to see you here. Your smiles and your 

 approbation will be the great prize at which they aim, a thousand 

 fold more precious than the prize of Sebastopol, and let me beg 

 every one in America to aim at doing something which he or she 

 will glory to see in this palace, and let us all dress and keep this 

 great garden of America which God has so graciously given us. Oh ! 

 give us clean hearts and free hands, and we will make a republic 

 from ocean to ocean, and from the Arctic circle, where one Frank- 

 lin was lost, through this zone, where a great Franklin was found, 

 to the tropic of Cancer, tilled with good things. Let all hands 

 be at work for such an immense good, and may our glorious Bible, 

 pure and uncorrupted, remain in every hand from infancy to old 

 age, that all may truly worship the God and Saviour of the world, 

 and so seek his blessing on all our doings. 



