Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1823-06-21
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States, Rev. Mr.. Palfrey, Daniel Wei
ster. George Blake, and Nathan Hale,
Esqrs. of Boston. President Tyler n
Professors Adams and Hadduck, OF
Dartmouth College, toge,her with ma
ny of the Rev Clergy add gentlemen
from the adjacent towns
The dinner was chiefly of Fish, OF
all known names, and cooked in all pos
! sibIe variety. After the cloth was re-
moved. the following toasts were
drunk and many fine songs timely
sung-copies of which we hope soon to
obtain.
/ /. The planting at Pascataquack,
! Gin the sprins" of 1928, and the rich
harvest it has yielded.
2. "The goodly forests, fair valleys
and chrystal hills of Laconia."
8. The heroes of Louisburg, an
earnest of New Hampshire Prowess
4. "Major Sullivan and Capta'"
Langdon"-our delegates to Cong ess
in rs, who supplied Bunker Hill with
powder from his Majesty's tort at Pas
cataqusck.
S. The New Hampshire regiments
in II and 70, Bennington, Saltwater
and Saratoga. Gsrmanto> q AID Mon
mouth
6. Mesheck Weare, at n Speaker
of the House, Chief Justice, and first
President Of the State.
z. The fi%sheries-the fret interests
Of the first settlers of New Hampshire,
8. The absent sons ON. Hampshire,
who have made her name abroad to be
respected let US at home with graft
tude remember them
10. Our literary and religious insti-
acknowledgements erected to the
memory Of our ancestors by their own
hands.
/ IL. The surviving Patrists Of the
Revolutions few bright stars yet a.
dorm the horizon
IL Our Fathers 200 years ago. and
our descsndants20O yeaas hence-Mty
there be no weak link iD the great
chain which connects them.
Is. The cause Of &c all over the
world-May it have the spirit Of rs to
maintain it.
VOLUNTEERS
Hon. d. Webster being called upon
for a toast, remarked. that although
not at home, he hoped he should not
be considered entirely as a stranger ;
he reminded the ~company-oI what
none had forgotten--thst he was a ma-
tiUe Of New Hampshire; he briefly,
but e~loquen;ly remarked, that this was
the land of his birth-of his education
and of his dearest associations; the
pleasures of the day were not a little
heightened by the consciousness that
those were present who directed his
studies IN youth, and assisted him with
their counsel in manhood: he said he
could not better express his feelings
tt.an by the words OF the poet:
New HAMpsHIRE-
"Where'er I roam. whatever realms to see,
My heart untravell'd fondly turns to thee"
Hon. Judge Story, remarked, that,
although not q native of this state, he
was yet a citizen o. New England; and
he adverted to those circumstances
which did excite, and which ought to
excite throughout New England, a si-
milarity Of feeling and sentiment, as
they produced a unity of interest. lie
then called the attention of his auditors
to that country from which New Eng
land was settled, and gave
"ENGLAND-The lanG of our fore.
fathers, and the land Of their descend.
ants-May it ever enjoy, with US, a
common learning, a common religion,
and a common liberty.
By George Blake esq. of 3os oD.-
This day a thousand years hence
May it find our posterity as free. as
prosperous, and as happy as it has found
Us.
By the Rev. Mr. Palfrey Of Bostcr.
The two May fouers-The one which
bore he Pilgrims to New England,
and the other the strawberry blossom
which met the first settlers Of New
Hampshire on the banks of the Pasca.
taqua.
By Rev. Mr.. Burroughs of Ports
mouth. DR.. Betknap: the historian OF
New Hampshire.
By the Hon. John F. PARROT. Presi-
dent of the day The manne and
principles of .he first settlers of New
Hampshire-Bold in enterprise; per-
severing in &C ion; intrepid in danger:
patien, in adversely: May a double
portion of their spirit rest on their de-
scendants, to the thousandth genera
ton.