I hope the American people will be interested with the information I
have just brought from my native country. I am writing the story of my
trip to Lithuania and return at the suggestion of some of my fellow
citizens, to whom I have narrated some ideas of it, in which they took
much interest as instructive information for anyone who prepares for a
trip to any part of the world. As this country is composed of citizens
and patriots of all nationalities, so every citizen may get attraction
to visit his native land; and even those who are born in this country
are sometimes tempted to visit the country of their fathers and
forefathers.
Exodium for Waterbury, Conn., Citizens Only.
My Dear Friends and Fellow Citizens:
I am glad to be with you again. Why am I glad? Because of the thirty-six
years since I came to America, most of the time I have spent in
Waterbury. Here I have lived for twenty-one years. Because in Waterbury
I had time enough to make many friends, and if I did not do so, it is my
own fault. In a word, in Waterbury my adopted citizenship must have
rooted much deeper than in the other parts of the United States in which
I have lived for a much shorter time.