HARVARD

COLLEGE
LIBRARY

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1831, in the Clerk's Office of

the District Court of Connecticut.

TO THE

YOUNG MEN OF

THE

UNITED STATES,

WITH THE HOPE

THAT THEY WILL NOT. CEASE

THEIR PATRIOTIC EXERTIONS IN THE CAUSE OF

FREEDOM, TILL THEY HAVE PERFECTED

THOSE INSTITUTIONS WHICH WERE

BEQUEATHED TO THEM BY

THE HEROES OF THE

REVOLUTION:

THE FOLLOWING IS RESPECTFULLY

INSCRIBED;

BY THE AUTHOR.