The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1789-11-07 00:00:00, page 1

ON the approach of the President
at New-Haven (Connecticut)
the bcgUUt^reof that state being then
in ie7i >n, appointed a committee, to
join with acam ranee from the coun
cil, and meet the Prefident l —to pre
pare and report an address from the
legislature of that ftace, to the Presi
dent of the United States ; which ad
dress was presented at the hour ap
pointed, to the President, and is as
follows :
•
TO GEORGE WASHINGTON,
PRESIDENT of the UNITED
STATES of AMERICA.
IMPRESSED with the sentiments
which animate the millions of our
feltow-citizens, We, the Legislature
of the State of Connecticut, cannot,
on this occasion, be silent.
Your presence recalls to our admi
ration that assemblage of talents—
which with impenetrable secrecy, and
unvarying decision, under the smiles
of Divine Providence, guided to vic
tory and peace the complicated events
of the late long 9hd arduous war.
The feenes of perilous horror thro'
which you conduced the American
arms, taught your country and man
kind to receive you as the greatest of
heroes. Your sacred tyßd to the
rights of freemen, and the virtues of
humanity, inspired the united voice
of all America to hail you as the firft
and worthiest of citizens.
With grateful veneratiaft we behold
the Father of his country —our friend
—our fellow-citizen—-our supreme
magistrate.
When p,ace had succeeded to the
vicissitudes of war, your ardent desire
for retirement was fandioned by the
Voice of patriotism.
Your country has again solicited
your aid. In obedience to her wishes,
you have facrificed the felicity of dig.
nified retirement, and have hazarded
on the tempestuous ocean of public
life the rich treasure of your fame.—
This display of patriot zeal gives you
a new right, to what you before pos
sessed, the hearts of all your fellow
citizens.
While we thus express our fenti
intents,and those of the freemen whom
we represent, we beg liberty to af
farv you of our zeal to flipport your
public administrations.
May the Divine Being, who has
given you as an example to the world,
ever have you in his holy keeping ;
may he long preserve you, the happi.
nefs and glory of our country ; May
the assurance, that the government
formed under your auspices will bless
future generations, rejoice the even
ing of your life; and may you be
Anally rewarded with the full glories
of immortality.,
In the name and behalf of the Le
gislature of the State of Connecticut.
Samuel Huntington, Gov.
To which Addrtf the President was
,leafed to return the following
Anfwir.
To the Legislature of the State of Con
nodicut.
Gentlemen,
GOULD any acknowledgements
whuh language might convey,
NEWHAMPSHIRE GAZETTEER.
Hereyou ma, range the world from pole to pole, Increafejour towlege,and delightifo^^^^
[ At we have not room to mention all the
re,pea paid to the President in t>is
tour, we hope our readers will excuse
the omifau of fame articles.]
flour of the President,
Saturday, NOVEMBER 7, 1,1,.]
Published by H. Ranlit, is the Main Street, EXETER ; O where Subscriptions, Advertisements, and all Favours, are gratefully received.
Through Ne w- England.
We feel ourselves bound by every
tie of duty and patriotism to ac^
knowledge in common with the peo
ple of America, our gratitude for your
Signal and disinterested services during
the late war ; which the citizens of
the United States have been protected
in their claims for liberty and inde
pendence.—That you have been pleas
ed to relinquish the pleasures of retire
ment, to ensure by a wife administra
tion, the continuance of those bless
ings to the people.—Also to profefs
our sincere attachment to your person,
and determination to support the ho
nour and welfare of your government,
THOMAS SMXMOUR^ Mayor.
The Illustrious PRESIDENT of
the United States with his Suite, ar
rived in this City on Monday last,
escorted by the Governor's Troop of
Horse Guards, dressed in an elegant
uniform, and by a large number of
•Gentlemen on hprfeback. Tuefday
he Spent the day in town —went to
view the various branches of the
Woolen Manufacture, and expressed
great Satisfaction at the progress which
had been made in that ufeful under
taking, On Wednesday, he proceed
ed on his tour to the Eastern States.
The corporation expressed their own
sentiments and those of their fellow
citizens in the following address.
do justice to the feelings excited by
your partial approbation of my past
services, and your affectionate withes
for my future happiness, I would en
deavour to thank you:—But to minds
disposed as yours are, it will fuffice
to observe, that your address meets a
mo&grateful reception, and is reci
procated in all its wishes with un
feigned sincerity.
B the prosperity of our common
country has in any degree been pro
moted by my military exertions, the
toils which attended them, hare been
amply rewarded by the approving
voice of my fellow-citizens. L was
but the humble agent of favouring
Heaven, whole benign interference
was so often manifefted in our beulf,
and to whom the praise of victory a
lone is due.
From the Connecticut Courant, printed
at Hartford, ORober 26, 1789.
G. ^SHINGTON.
Newhalen, 6a. 17th, 1789.
In launching again on the ocean of
events, I have obeyed a summons to
which I can never be infenfibie.—-
When my country demands the facri
fice, personal ease will always be a
secondary consideration.
I cannot forego this opportunity to
facilitate the Legislature cf Connecti
cut bn the pleating profpeft which an
abundant harvelt prefects to its citi
zens.-- May industry like theirs, ever
receive its reward, and may the 'miles
of Heaven, croon all the endeavors
which are prompted by virtue, among
which it is justice to eftabnfh your af
finance of Supporting our equal gov
ern ment.
S I R,
TH E Mayor, Aldermen and
Common Council of the City
of Hartford, beg leave most refpeCt
fully to congratulate the President of
the United States on his accession to
the high office of Chief Magistrate ;
and with cordial hearts to welcome his
arrival in this City,
To th President of the United
States.
THE
WHEN an occasion presents it
felf, in which the People of
the (United States can teftify to dif
tinguilhed merit, their refpe& and
esteem—they have never been known
to let it pass unimproved.—What
then were to be expe&ed from them,
when an opportunity offered of per
sonally paying these tributes to a Man,
in whose character, whatever is Great
and Good--whatever dignifies and
adorns human nature, are so happily
united ? All that a grateful People
could pay. And all this has been
paid,>
In every part of the country thro'
which our beloved President has pas
sed, the roads have been lined with
citizens, to hail him welcome—and
the military have escorted him from
place to place. Particularly to re
late these grateful tefbmoniala is jm.
pebble from their number.
Gentlemen,
GRATEFUL for the favourable
difpolition difeovered towards
nr> in your address, I receive your
congratulations with pleasure, ana I
thank your goodness with sincerity.
The indulgent partiality, with
which my fellow-citizens are pleased
to regard my public Services, is the
most acceptable compensation they can
receive, and amply rewards them.
While industry gives an assurance
of plenty, and reaped for the laws
maintains the harmony of Society,
there is every reason to hope for the
individual happiness of oar citizens,
and the dignity of our government, in
conduct like yours.
From the Maffachufets Spy, %,
printed at Worcefer, oa, 29,'
INFORMATION being received
on Thurfc'ay evening that his
Highnels would be in to+n the next
morning, a number of refpedable ci
tizens, about forty, paraded before
sunrise, on horseback, and went as far
21 Leicester line to welcome him, and
everted him ino town. —The Wor
cester company of Artillery, com
maided by Major Treadwell, were
already assembled ; on notice being
given that his Highness was approach
itg, five cannon Were fired, for the
five Newengland States ; three for the
three in the union—one for Vermont,
which will speedily be admitted—
nd one as a call to Rhodeifland to be
ready before it be too late. When
the Prefidentgeneral arrived in fight
of the meeting-house, eleven cannon
were fired ; he viewed with attention
the artillery company as he passed,
end expressed to the inhabitants his
sense of the honour done him—He
flopped at the United States Arms,
and breakfafted, and then proceeded
on his journey.—To gratify the in
habitants he politely passed through
town on horseback, dressed in a brown
fait, and pleasure glowed in every
countenance —eleven cannon were a
gain fired—The gentlemen of the
town escorted him a few miles, when
they took their leave.
To which the Prefdent was ,leafed to
return the following answer.
To the Mayor, Aldermen, and Com
mon Council of the City of
Hartford.,
G. WASHINGTON.
Hartford, Oa. 21, 1789,
From the Maffathufetts Centinel,
printed at Boston, Oa. 28,
His Excellency rhe Governour, on
the firft information of the intention
of The President, issued his orders for
paying every military honour to the
illustrious visitant—gave him a cordial
invitacibn to his Excellency's houfe—
and requeued his Honour the Lieut,
Governour and the Council to meet
him at Cambridge, and accompany
him into the capital.
Not less grateful than their fellow
country.men, are the citizens of the
town of Boston. As soon as a confir
mation of The President's intention
was received, a Committee was imme
diately appointed to draft an Address
to be presented to him in behalf of
the town, by the Selectmen : And a
eonfiderable number of citizens con
vened together for the purpose, ap
pointed a Committee of fourteen, to
recommend such arrangements for the
reception of so illustrious a character
as Should be practicable. This Com
mittee having met, recommended the
arrangements which took pl^ce —
which were approved of in Town-
Meeting, and made the ad of the
town by the re appointment of the
Committee, to which the Selectmen
and another gentleman were joined.
These arrangements being complet
ed— and information having been re
ceived, that The President would ea
ter the town on Saturday at noon, at
ten o'clock the inhabitants a£mbled
and formed their PROCESSION in
the Mail—from whence, preceded by
the Band of his Most Christian Ma
jesty's Squadron— hey proceeded to
the Fortification—where his Excel
lency the Governour had previously
ordered the Several military corps of
this metropolis to parade.—On the
arrival of the Procession at the entrance
of the town—the whole were ordered
to halt—to open ranks, and face in
wards—which being done, an avenue
was formed, which reached from the
neck to the State-House, for The
President, &c, to pass through. Ac
one o'clock, The President's approach
was announced by federal difeharge's
from Capt. Warner's artillery at
Roxbury—r from the Dorcbefler artillery
polled on the celebrated heights of
that town—from Capt. Johnson's
artillery at the entrance of this town,
and from Castle- William ; by a royal
Salute from the Ships of his Most
Christian Majesty's Squadron, and by
the ringing of all the bells.
The procession into tos> was near
ly the fame, as that on the adoption
of the Federal Constitution ; the most
refpedable characters being about the
person of The President.
On the arrival of the front of the
Procession at the Old Brick Meeting,
the whole, halted —and the Military,
the Selectmen and Council conduced
The PRESIDENT through the tri
umphal Arch ereCted across the Main-
Street, to the Sehate-Chamber, by
the East dbor of the State-Houfe—
from whence the President passed
through the Representatives' Cham
ber to the Collonn ade, * erected
for the occasion in the W,± end of
the State House, composed -of tix
large columns, fifteen fee; high, and
a balluftrade hung in front wich Per
sian carpets, on which Were wrought
thirteen roses, Ihe circle of the
colonnade meafared forry^our feet,
and projected boldly into the Main-
Street, so as to exhibit,in a Strong
light, '' The Man of the People." The
central Weft window of, the State-
House was the door through which
the President passed to the ballujlrade
descending from a platform four easy
[Yoh I.—Muriels