The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1825-09-14

AT the painful moment of parting from you,
we take comfort in the thought, that WHEREBY
er you may be, to the last pulsation Of your
/ neasI, cur country will be ever present to your
affections; and cheering consolation assures
us, that we are not called to sorrow most OF
ALL that we shall see your face no more. We
shah indulge the pleasing anticipation of be-
holding our friend again. In The mean time,
1 speaking IN the name of the whole People OF
the United States, and at a loss only for Lam
guage to give utterance Of that feeling of at
tschment with which the heart of the nation
! beats, as the heart of one man bid YOU
reluctant and affectionate farewell.
To which Gen. La Fayette made the
| following
.4NSWER:
Amidst all nay obligations 10 the General
Government, and particularly to you, Sir, its
/ respected Chief Magistrate, | have most thank
fully to acknowledge the opportunity given
me, at this solemn and painful moment, to
present the People of the United States with a
parting tribute of profound, inexpressible graf
! itude.
To have been, in the infant and critical days
OF these States, adopted by them as a favorite
Son, to have participated in the tolls and peris
Of our unspotted struggle for independence.
freedom, and equal rights, and in the fouuda-
ton of the American Era of new social or
der, which has already pervaded this, and
must, for the dignity and happiness Of man
KIND, successfully pervade every part Of the
other hemisphere--to have received at every
stage OF the revolution, and during forty years
alter that period, from the People of the United
states, and their representatives at home and
4 abroad, continual marks of their confidence
and kindness-has been the pride, the encour-
agement, the support of long and eyentful
life.
/ But how could find words to acknowledge
that series OF welcomes, those unbounded and
universal displays of public affection, which
have marked each step, each hour, of
twelve-months' progress through the twenty
four States, and which, while they overwhelm
my heart with grateful delight, have most sat-
isfactorily evinced the concurrence of the peo-
pie in the kind testimonies, in the immenee
, tavors bestowed on me by the several branches
, OF their representatives in every part, and at
the central seat Of the confederacy.
Yet, qualifications still higher awaited me /;
, in the wonders of creation and improvement
that have met my enchanted eye, in the I'M
: paralleled and selffelt happiness of the peo-
pie, in their rapid prosperity and insured secu-
! rity, public and private, in practice of good
order, the appendage of true freedom, and a
national good sense the final arbiter of all diff
culties, have had proudly to recognise re-
! suit of the republican principles for which we
=. have fought, and glorious demonstration to
the most timid and prejudiced minds, of the
superiority, over degrading aristocracy or des-
potism, of popular institutions founded on the
plain rights of man, and where the local rights
OF every section are preserved under consti-
| tutional bond of union. The cherishing of that
/ union between the States, as it has been the
, farewell entreaty of our great paternal Wash
/ ington, and will ever have the dying prayer Of
every American Patriot, so il has become the
sacred pledge of the emancipation of the world,
! an object IN which am happy to observe that
, the American people, while they give the ami.
mating example of successful free institutions
in return for an evil entaied upon them by
Europe, and Of which liberal and enlioht.
I'll ened sense is every where more and more gen
orally felt, show themselves every day more
: anxously interested.
e And now. Sir, how can do justice to nv
: deep and lively feelings, for the assurance.
o most peculiarly valued of your esteem and
: friendship, for your SO very kind references to
r old times, to my beloved associates, TO the vi.
cissitudes of my life, for your affecting picture
d OF the blessings poured by the several genera
: tions of the American people on the remaining
: days ola delighted veteran, for your affection.
t ate remarks on this sad hour of separation. on
e the country of my birth, full, ! can say. o.
G American sympathies, on the hope so necessa.
e ry to me of my seeing again the country thai
e has deisned near half century ago to call me
G hers? shall content myself, RETAINING from
# superhuous repetitions, at once before YOU
Sir, and this respected circle, to proclaim nv
n cordial confirmation of every one of the senti
. ments which have had daily opportunitie.
: publicly to utter, from the time when YOU,
# venerable predecessor, my old brother in arm:
III and friend, transmitted to me the honourable
: invitation of Congress, to this day when YOU
= my dear Sir, whose friendly connexion with
e me dates from your earliest youth, are going tc
II consign me to the protection, across the Allan.
tic, OF the heroic national flag on board tbs
e splendid ship, the name of which has been moi
f the least flattering and kind among the NUN,
If berless faVours conferred upon me.
g God bless you, Sir, and you all who surround
e us. God bless the American people, each q
: their States, and the Federal Government
d Accept this patriotic farewell Of an OVERLOOKING
d heart; such will be its last throb when il
It ceases to beat.
During the delivery, both the Presi-
: dent and Gen. La Fayette we're consid-
erably affected and at the close, the
: General affectionately embraced the
President, and held him for a considera-
), bic time by the hand, repeating, /" Fare
! well, y" God bless you," in broken
: voice, and with very visible agitation.
r The emotion spread through the sur
4 rounding circle, and communicated a
5 character of sadness to the ceremony
which made the interest of the scene
much more intense. At the conclusion
, ofGen. La Fayette's address, on a signal
/ given, national salute of "a guns was
: fired by the artillery company stationed