Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1825-06-22
WEDNESDAY. JUNEl5.

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day next.
The report of the joint committee declar.
ing the inexpediency Of paying Members Of
the House from the public Treasury, with
the proposed amendments theIeto, was con-
sidered, and it was ordered that the consider.
alton thereof be postponed to the next ses-
sion.
| THURSDAY, JUNE 16.
| IN CONVENTION.
Pursuant to the Order of Arrangement
agreed upon, at half past ten, the Hon. Sem
ate and House Of Representatives met in Con-
vention, and his Excellency the Governor
came in attended by the Hon. Council. and
took the Speakers chair. The committee APP
pointed to make arrangements on The occasion
then introduced Gen. La Fayette TO the Le-
sislature, and he was welcomed by his Ex.
celency the Governor in the following
ADDRESS,.
| Gen, La Fayette-The immediate Repre-
sentatives of the people of Massachusetts, in
the Executive and Legislative departments
OF the Government have assembled on this oc-
caslon, to offer you their cordial congratula-
lions on your return in health and safety to
the capital of this Commonwealth, and, in the
name of their constituents, to repeat to YOU
the assurances of the respectful and affection
ate interest, with which they shall ever regard
! your presence among them.
Your arrival in the country, on This happy
visit to your American brethren, was greeted
by them with expressions of the lveliest sat-
istaCtion and joy. Your own observations
since will bear faithful witness how true are
Their hearts TO the language of salutation with
which they first welcomed you. The popula-
ton which has crowded your pathway, the
prosperity which has smiled along your pro-
gress, in your tour through the Union, are but
the fruits of events in which you largely and
sloriously participated. The remembrance of
your early sacrifices in the cause of this coun-
try, has excited the deepest sense of public
obligation, and the breasts of millions of free
men will never cease to swell with gratitude,
in the recognition of your services, most gen
erously and effectually rendered to an oppress-
ed and suffering people.
! nation just to itself cannot be Indifferent
to the fame of its benefactOrs, and while Liber-
ty is dear to the enjoyment of Americans, the
names OF those who fought in its defence will
he associated with every memorial of the
scenes through which it became triumphant.
In offering to you, General, the congratula-
visit, have the highest personal qualification,
IN further executing the pleasure of the Legis
lature, by rendering to you the hospita lties of
the Commonwealth during its continuance.
.4NSWER.
SiR-The honor conferred upon me by the
immediate Representatives of the State of
| Massachusetts, in the Legislative and Execu-
tive branches, at the same time * fills my
heart with the most lively and the deepest
sentiments of gratitude, recalls TO my mind
recollections equally grateful and endearing !;
and while am SO kindly welcomed by your
Exceency in this splendid State House, re-
member the rem mote times when similar favors
have been received OH the floor of Faneul
Hall-the consecrated cradle Of American,
and, | iondly hope, of universal liberty.
In the long and happy series OF visits through
the several parts of the Union, to which you
have been pleased to allude, Bunker Hill has
ever been my polar star, and now rejoice to
be arrived in time to join on the grand half
| secular jubilee, with my companions in arms,
as being together the representative of the ear
ly and mistaken devotion of our revolutionary
| army, of the patriotic wishes of such OF us a,
are still on this land, of the dying prayers OF
those who are no more and permit me here,
| sir, most deeply to mourn the recent loss of my
two friends, your respected predecessors, who
had so heartily joined in the late welcome
have had the happiness, after long absence,
to receive from the people of this State, and in
this beloved city of Boston, which never en-
| tered without feeling the warmest emotions of
affection and gratitude.
While have had continually to admire the
rapid wonders of creation and improvement,
that have been the result of Independence,
freedom, and those republican institutions
which alone are equal to support the weight
and display the faculties of an extensive en-
pire, have particularly delighted in the SEN
tments of fellow feelings and mutual affection
whereby the people OF every part Of the con-
which reside the safety Of these States and the
hopes of mankind.
beg, sir, the gentlemen of the two Houses
| OF the Honorable Legislature and your Excel
lency, 70 accept my respectful thanks and cor
dial devotion.
After which he was introduced to the indi-
viduals in the several branches of the Govern
ment.
committee was appointed 10 inquire into
the expediency and propriety of authorizing
the Governor to draw his warrant on the
Treasury, for such sum as it may be necessa-
ry to expend in extending to General La Fay
cite the Inequalities Of the Commonwealth.
A hill to provide for the support of Public
Worship, was negatived in the Cd reading.
The Committee on so much of the Cover.
nor's speech, as relates to the liability of the
Corporations in Manufacturing Companies, re-
ported a reference Of the subject to the next
session. Accepted.
Messrs. LELAND and CUSHING, Of the House
of Representatives, came in, and said, that
they were directed to appear before the Sem
ate, to impeach SAMUEL BLAGGE, Esq. a JUS
| tice Of the Peace Of the County Of Suffolk, and
a Notary Public Of this Commonwealth, Of
| misconduct and mal-administralion in said Of
| fees.
The message was referred TO the Hon. Messrs.
AUSTIN, GRAY and MILLS, who were appoint
ed to prepare rules and proceedings to be OBJ
served by the Senate, in the case of the i'm
O.,