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ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT.4
savages as well, while the remoteness of human succor, and the slenderness of the ties which stretched in invisible lines across the wild waste of Atlantic waters, rendered their condition still more unpleasant. They met cruel disappointment and wasting sickness, yet like the lofty pine, storm-topped, they struck root at length, even in the stony soil of bleak New England, and laid deep the firm foundations of a great and glorious commonwealth. We can most truly say that among the genuine stock of New England and the Middle States the
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