Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1819-07-31
FROM THE WESTERN MONITOR, July 6.
TIE PRESIDENTS TOUR.

TIE PRESIDENTS TOUR.
Seldom have we been more highly
.gratified, than by the cordial, respectful,
and appropriate manner in which the
President of the United States has been
received and entertained ON his visit to
this town.
On Tuesday evening last, the Presi-
dent, together with major general An
drew jackson, and their respective
suites, arrived at Frankfort, the seat of
our state government. They were there
handsomely received by military es-
cort and ,cavalcade of citizens. On
ednesday they partook' ofa public din
her in that place, in company with lieut..
gov. Slaughter, general Adair, colonel
r. M. Johnson, and many other distin-
guished citizens. On Thursday they
cined and passed the night at the resi-
dence of colonel Johnson, in Scott coun-
ty, and on Friday morning proceeded on
their way to this place, through George
town, where they were received and es-
corted by a handsome troop Of cavalry.
Yesterday morning, at 10 O'Clock, a
remarkably interesting and eloquent
Grafton, appropriate to the anniversary of
our Independence, was pronounced in
the Chapel Of the University, by MIR.
JOHN EVERETT, one of the tutors of that
institution, at which general Jackson and
the other gentlemen in company with
the President attended, but the President
himself, in consequence of fatigue and a
slight indisposition, declined being pre-
sent. AT II O'Clock, the committee Of
arrangements waited on him at his
lodgings, and colonel MoRRIsoN, their
chairman, in behalf of the citizens of
Lexington, delivered to him the follow
ing address.
Mn. PRrsIDEyr-We are happy in having
the opportunity to give you cordial welcome
to the town of Lexington. 1t is with unaf-
fected pleasure that we pay our deliberate res
poets to the President of the United States,
and felicitate ourselves upon finding, in the OBJ
jcct Of our regard, so perfect union of public
and private worth. To the many services,
which you base rendered to the nation, an &C
quantance with your history enables the COM
munity to add, for their contemplation and
confidence, the virtues of the man and the
citizen Our Judgment approves Of the graft
fcation, which our hearts experience in meet
ing you at our own doors, and in the circle of
our own families. We see and acknowledge
the numerous benefits, which NAV result from
this execution Of your patriotic determination
to visit the principal portion of our country,
and to inspect personally its condition, its
wants, It's resources, and its prospects. We in
dulge the beieft that many uses will flow from
the knowledge, which you will thus gain Of
public sentiment, and especially that your con-
victien will be increased and firmly established,
by your daily observation, in favor Of the
great national Importance ofinternal improve
Inents and domestic manufactures, and their
intimate connection withthc harmony, strength,
and prosperity of our federal system. We
doubt not, willie you justly estimate and pro-
tect the advantages of commerce, and guard
the interests involved in our foreign relations,
that the impartiality and equity Of your politi-
cal reflections will furnish you with clear and
adequate views Of the various benefits, which
would arise from a multiplication of the facili-
ties of intercourse and transportation for the
spreading population of the interior, as well
as from an extension Of the means of defence
and security against aggression Or surprise
from the wilderness.
While this journey of observation and in
curry subjects you to great personal fatigue,
and forces you into a repetition of laborous
but useful attentions, we are gratifed to OBJ
serve, what must also be qualification to your
self the prompt and universal sympathy, which
Is excited in the breasts fthe people, not only
toward the same political rights and interests,
but toward the same principles and modes of
courtesy and hospitality. We acknowledge
that we are, as we think we have reason to be,
proud of our countrymen, and of the spirit,
not barely permitted, but fostered by our
habits and institutions, when, in the midst of
our privileges, and in the full energy of our re-
publican character, we behold the freemen of
this great and growing empire voluntarily Of
:, fering enlightened and unconstrained atten-
tions to the man, whom they have deliberately
chosen to place at their head for season, and
to whom they have entrusted, in the first de-
gree, their dearest political interests. We
feel that we honor ourselves in honoring you,
and that republicanism, when rightly under.
stood, does not prescribe, but invites and
chershes refinement of sentiment and man
ners, and the best forms of pclteness and hos.