I go to visit the tombs of my ancestors; I go to my home, and my home knoweth me no more.

Great and good, and brave and free are the English; and may God grant that they may ever continue so!" "I cordially join in that prayer, Sir," said I; "you have a country of your own.

The old colonies having ripened into maturity, formed a distinct and separate family, in the great community of mankind.

You are now a nation of yourselves, and your attachment to England, is of course subordinate to that of your own country; you view it as the place that was in days of yore the home of your forefathers; we regard it as the paternal estate, continuing to call it 'Home' as you have just now observed.

We owe it a debt of gratitude that not only cannot be repaid, but is too great for expression.