...he patriot may be invigorated, the hopes of the philanthropist strengthened and his aims exalted, the pulse of the American quickened and his aspirations purified by a visit to Mount Vernon! From Niagara , the traveller wrote a letter to Graham's Magazine: Years, said he, though not many, have weighed upon me since first, in boyhood, I gazed from the deck of a canal-boat upon the distant cl...