Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1824-10-29

| GENERAL: The surviving officers of OIL
Revolutionary Army, who are inhabitants %
the state of Virginia, Welcome you To hrl
Metropolis with feelings which your own heart
will best :ell you how to estimates. We have
been the more gratified by the offering of re-
speet and affection from whole people, spon-
taneousiy flowing from sincere gratitude foS
inestuab:s ser*:cas, aud deep sense Of your
worth, because we believe that la mind like
yours, they will compensate for The privaiions
you sustain, and the hazards and fatigues yUu
have encountered in re-vlsiting our county,
30 long as Americans remember that noble
struggle which drew you first to their shores,
that deep gloom which Overshadowed their
cause when you embraced il, they cannot forget
the prompt, the generous, the gallant, aud the
important part you took in the conflict.
The historyUf your eventual life attests the
sublime motive which enlisted you on the
side OF people contending for liberty; but
we love 10 believe that feelings of softer and
more endearng character were soon mingled
with that exalted pri0cipl-. We delight to
consider this visit as furnishing additional svi
dence that the sentiments We felt and mani
tested towards you, sunk deep into your beari,
and were greeted by kindred feelings that
as America has aiways regarded you one of
tue best and bra,esf of her snns, so you have
never ceased to regard her as "a second coun-
try, ranking in your affections next to that
which gave you hirth.
In common with our fellow citizens through
out the United States, wetejoicu TO see you.
With them we review your various and val
liable services to our infant republics, and your
unceasng devotion TO liberty "a and iiod in the
retrospect the same reasons to excite our gra
titude ano esteem which excite those. srnti :,
ments in them (; but Ia, one part of your lfe
we claim AN interest peculiar tn ourselves.
We look back with Mingled gratitude and
applause To the period of our ~, olu'onary
War, when the supreme command in Virginia
was conferred on you. We retrace your coll
duet through those trying scenes. We recol-
ect the difficulties you encountered, and the
dangers which threatened us. We remember
the skill, The patient foriifude. the persevering
courage, with which you conducted us through
those difficulties. and extrcated yourself and
us from those dangers.
AT the head of an undisciplinrd and Harm
ed militia, supported by only small band
of Regulars, you KEPT the open field in the
far of numerous, well appointed aud high
spirited army, protected our scanty magazines,
covered great portion of our Country, sus
tanned the hopes and the confidence uf our
people, and without sustaining any serious
disaster pressed the rear of the hostile army
in its retreat Ia the ground on which its ex
pirips effort was 'ade.
II is .yonr praise, during this arduous and
trying conduct for Virginia, to have so hap
PLY fempered the enierprizng courage Of
yuuth with tim caution and prudence which
belong to ripper years, that you performed
every practicable service without sustaining
any sarious disaster, and preserved your ar.
my entire for the great achievement which
not only liberated Virginia, but accomplish
I'll the Independence If the United States
This distinguished part you bore in fi,e last
and glorious scene is indelibIy impressed in
the memory ofall Virgiuians In the bosoms
of none is il more deeply engraved than in
those vi the men " 10 stand before you.-
Some Of Us s+rsrd under you ia that memo
rable cannaign ; mnry in the courr. Of the
war. Whr dn,y required obrd.rnce, your
conduct inspired confidence and low Time
Which has taiunsd our ranks. aud enfeeblcd
our bodies, has not inpaitsd these feelings
TDry retain their original vigour.
These ex f,I essions flow from hearts replete
with sspiiuHn's of affection for your person,
esteem for your character, and gratitude for
your services Thsy will continue to animate
rs loog after We shall hass parted will, you :;
we arc oowipg 10 add-fur ever! Under
their ipilueDcs, We supplicats the supreme
author ofali good 10 axiand to you his pro-
tection, and To make tho evening Of your life
vs.
was glorious.
The General with much sensibiity deliver
ed the following reply:
Ny dear Companions ia Arms:
had anticipated thu pleasure TO meet
macy OF you in this Metropolis uf Virginia.
aud | eyjey ii with delight: You know
that the 6ne, gallant Virginia line was my
first command in the army. Virginia Con
tiaenials, riflemea, volunteer corps and mill
tia, sl Them, al the several periods of the
r., dictionary war; have laid me under great
obligations. The honors / now receive. |
have not the vanity TO monopoi;ze to my
sell: Tsey are testimony Of adhesion 10
the Principle for which we have fought, and
of public remembrance for our common SER
vices the dearer and more honorable they
seem to me, when ! share them with Won
Amidst the fattering circumstances Of nv
reception, much value the honor have to
be addressed in the name Of our comrades
by YOU my dear Sir and in the Chief Jus
tice of the Uuted States, the Eloquent His
torian of tho Revolution, and of its natcbIess
military chief, to recognize a brother officer
in more arduous times, and a personal
friend.
Congratulations between La +. and the off |
GERS were then exchanged through the whole |
circls--and he was conducted to the mar
quee, to be Introduced 10 the Ladies The
scene which now ensned to the moment of bis |
departure from the Square, it is impossible for |
us 10 describe, Hundreds of ladies aockra |
around him IN tho marquee TO enjoy the sat |
isfaction of grasping his hand. The same en- |
ibusfasm perssded the whole of the long and |
dense Inc of citizens Of both sexes, which was
formed from the marquee TO the Western gate. |
Each one pressed forward anxious to grasp