There are now in different portions of this country not far from a thousand citizens in the formation of whose minds I have had some share as a teacher. Many of Q you are in places'of authority, and I con. Sider myself more fortunate than the great founder of political science in this, that Aristotle taught a royal youth and future conqueror, and Athenians indeed, but at a period when the sun of Greece was setting, while my lot has been to instruct the future law-makers of a vast and growing commonwealth in the noblest branches that can be imparted to the minds of youths preparing themselves for the citizen ship of a great republic. I have taught you in the early-part of our history which God has destined to fill a fair page in the annals of man if we do our arduous duty. If not, our shame will be propor tionate. 'he never holds out high rewards without corresponding penalties.