Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-01-06

sion, alluded 10 III inc todstS PrcPaiou
with SO much judgment and taste by
the excellent Committee Of Arrange
ment. and which had already received,
as they merited, unqualified approba-
ton. but the sentiment deserved repiti-
tion-he hoped, without arrogance,
that he might say, distinct and EN-
phatic expression from him. Whilst
we are enjoying, in peace, plenty, and
safety, the blessings Of those free lnsti-
tutions which the valour and the patri-
otism of our sires, and their gallant com
panions now present, have established,
and freely and gratefully INDUCING in
our revolutionary recollections, can we
forget that our neighbors and friends,
on the same Continent, are now strug-
Cling to achieve that freedom and In
dependence which here, happily, was
so successfully indicated? In their
behalf no foreign nation, no generous
and disinterested La FAYETrE has rls-
en-. Unaided, they have sustained
their glorious cause alone, conscious OF
its righteousness, and with no other
helps than those which their courage,
their morasses and their Andes nave
supplied. If the monarch OF miserable
Spain had ever displayed any extraor,
binary moral ftness-if he possessed
any superior wisdom, for governing
if, situated beyond the Atlantic, with.
in his contracted European Peninsula, II
all mankind was not obliged to confess
the folly and the presumption OF his
vain effort to regain his lost dominion
over the greater part of America, we
might moderate our sympathles, ana
feel a less lively interest in the final Is
sue. of the war. But wretched Spain,
governed itself by foreign force-in-
fatuated monarch, yet to cherish the
impracticable hope Of maintaining a
rule in the New World, for which he is
wholly incompetent in the Old.-He
would not longer detain the company.
He proposed
General Bolivar, the Washington of South
America, and the Republic of Colombia.
After which, the President and Gen.
La Fayette retired, and the company
soon after dispersed.
The Committee of Arrangement
were, Colonel Hayne, of South Carroll
ma, Col. R. M. Johnson, Of Kentucky,
and Mr.. Mills, Of Massachusetts,, on the
part of the Senate; and Major Hamil-
ton, of South Carolina, Gen. Van Rens-
salaer, of New York, and General Nc
Arthur, of Ohio, on the part OF the
House of Representatives.
The utmost harmony and enthusiasm
prevailed, on this most interesting oc-
casion; and, on the whole, the feast
was one of the finest displays OF gene
rous and ardent feeling which has e.
yer been witnessed.
It was another one added to the ma
ny proud days which public gratitude
has marked in the calendar.of La Fa-
yette; and it was distinguished by cir
cumstances which give to it new and
striking character. 1t was placing the
top-stope to the pillar Of striking regard
which the nation had already reared to
its illustrious guest: and the repre-
sentatives from every State contributed
to the work. At the same time that 1t
exhibited the greetings of every State,
through its representatives, to our dis
tinguished visiter, it also displayed the
deep regard with which our venerable
President contemplated by the Legis-
lative branches of the government; and
the anxiety, in which all participated,
to offer him an an unusual tribute OF es-
TEEN.
Altogether, it may be considered as
one of the proudest days in the annals
of our country; a day to which the at
tention of our own times will be rivet-
ted, and which will be told with high
satisfaction to our remotest posterlty.