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


of the Nation. The less pleasing task now de-
wolves upon me, of bidding you, in the name
of the Nation, adieu.
! 1t were no longer seasonable, and would be
superfluous, to recapiiulate the remarkable
incidents of your early life-incidents which
associated your name, fortunes, and reputa-
ton, in imperishable connexion with the In
dependence and History of the North Ameri-
can Union.
The part which you performed at that in
portaDt iUncture was marked with characters
so peculiar, that, realizing the iairest fable of
antiquity, its parallel could scarcely be found
in the authentic records of human history.
You deliberately and perseveringly preferred
toll, danger, the endurance of every hardship,
and the privation of every comfort, in defence
of a holy cause, to ingiorious ease, and the al
lurements of rank, sfiuence, and unrestrained
youth, at the most splendid and fascinating
Court of Europe.
That this choice was not less wise than mag
unanimous, the sanction of half century, and
the grstuations of unnumbered voices, all I'M
able to express the gratitude OF the heart with
which your visit to this hemisphere has been
welcomed, afford ample demonstration.
When the contest of freedom, TO which you
had repaired as a voluntary champion, had
closed, by the complete triumph OF her cause
in this country of your adoption, you returned
to fulfil the duties of the pbilanthropist and
patriot in the land Of your nativity. There,
in consistent and undertaking career OF forty
years, you have maintained, through every
vicissitude Of alternate success and disappoint-
ment, the same glorious cause, to which the
first years OF your active life had been devoted
the improvement of the moral and political
condition of man.
Throughout that long succession Of time, the
people Of the United States, for whom, and
with whom, you have fought the battles OF
liberty, have been living in the full possession
of its fruits-one of the happiest among the
family of nations. Spreading in population ;
charging in territory; acting and suffering ac-
cording to the condition of their nature; and
laying the foundations of the greatest, and, we
humbly hope, the most benefcent Power that
ever regulated the concerns ofman upon earth.
In that lapse Of forty years, the generation
Of men with whom you co-operated in the con-
Net Of arms, has nearly passed away. Ofthe
General Officers of the American army in that
war, you alone survive. Of the Sages who
guided our Councils; of the Warriors who
met the foe in the field or upon the wave, with
the exception of a few. to whom unusual length
of days has been allowed by Heaven, all now
= sleep with their fathers. A succeeding, anC
even third generation, have arisen to take
their places; and their chiidren's children
while rising up to call them blessed, have
been taught by them, as well as admonisheC
!, by their own constant enjoyment Of freedom
to include, in every benson upon their fathers
the name of him who came from afar, with
them and in their cause, to conquer or to fall
The universal prevalence of these senti
! ments was signally manifested by a Resolu
ton OF Congress, representing the whole peo
q pie, and all the States Of this Union, request
ing the President of the United States to com
m1nicate to you the assurances Of grateful ant
affectionate attachment to this Government
and People, and desiring that national shiI
I might be employed, at your convenience, TO
your passage to the bordera of.our country.
t The invitation was transmitted to you By
r my venerable predecessor-himself bound Il
# you by the strongest ties ofpersonal friendship
Y himself one of those whom the highest hon
n ors of his country had rewarded for blood ear
" shed in her cause, and for long life Of de
: votion TO her welfare. By him the services Q
g a national ship were placed at your disposal
/, Your delicacy preferred more private con
] veyance, and full year has elapsed sine
It you landed upon our shores. 1t were scarce
ly an exaggeration to say, that it has been, t
the people OF the Union, a year of unnterrupt
o ed festivity and enjoyment, inspired by you
presence. You have traversed the twenty
four States of this great Confederacy-yo,
: have been received with rapture by the sur
:, vivors Of yeur earliest companions in arms
: you have, been hailed as long absent paren
J, by their children, the men and women Of tn
present age-and a rising generation, the hop
OF future time, in numbers surprising the who'll
!, population of that day when you fought at tn
e head and by the side of their forelathers, hav
/ We'd with the scanty remnants Of that hour O
= trial, in acclamations oijoy at beholding tn
o face OF him whom they feel to be the common
!, benelactor of all. You have heard the ming
d led voices of the past, the present and the flu
/ ture age, joining in one universal chorus Q
d delight at your approach and the shouts @
d unbdden thousands, which greeted your land
IS ing on the soil Of freedom, have followed eve
= ry step of your way, and still resound, lik
n the rushing of many waters, from every corne
l. of our land.
s You are now about to return to tn
IS country OF your birth, of your ancestors, ofyou
d posterity. The Executive Government c
e the Union, stimulated by the same feein
IS which had prompted the Congress to tn
8 designation of national ship for your &C
t, commodation in coming hither, has desine
} the first service of frigate, recently launche
a at this metropolis, to the less welcome, bu
'f equally distinguished trust, of conveying 20
e home. The name of the ship has added on
e more memorial to distant regions and TO futur
e ages, Of stream already memorable, at ono
in the story ofyour suferings and of our indie
pendence.
The ship is now prepared for your reception
and equipped for sea. From the moment @
her departure, the prayers of millions viii as
d cend to Heaven that her passage may be pros
!, porous, and your return to the bosom of you
e family as propitious to your happiness. as you
o visit to this scene of your youthful glory ha
been to that of the American people.