Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1829-07-09
IR. EyERETT'S SPEECH.
SPEECH

public dinner giuen 10 him at Lexington Ken
MIR. PRESIDENT AND GEsrLEMEs--C Custom
and propreiy forbid me TO remain silent ; but
| hope il would be snperauous, as am sure ii
would he unayailing, TO attempt TO express my
feelings, on receiving The kind attentions OF
7 this ompany. No gentlemas who has himself
, ha0 occasion, while absent & ON home, TO en-
, perienre the value OF acts of private or public
hospitality, will doubt the sentiments excited
in me, by these testimonials of your favorable
opinion. IL the voice OF welcome, that awaits
/, him beneath his own rooi, on his return home
mike the most direct appeal TO the sensibiliiies
OF the traveller, il is with a sati Iactop scarce
" inferior, heightened by sense of obligation,
J that he rectives, in distant region, those
} proofs of kindness aud assurances OF good will,
IN which he seems to recover some OF the best
end arments of home in the land OF srang' RS,
| would spare you, gcn,lemen-l would spare
my self the EFFORT TO describe, IN set phrases -
What, II felt, needs no explanation, what, II b,
be not lelt, cannot be explained; aud beg you
with the plainness of n sincere aud grateful
heart, 10 believe that place tho proper value
on this public and cordial manifesto ion OF
your friendly feeling and that While take
10 mysef-and feel honered in doing so. so
much OF il n. flows from your hosptable re.
gard towarda stranger, rejoice more spe.
elally IN this festive meeting, as aplcdgr of
good will between the distant spctlons oil the
Union 10 which we respectively belong That
UnIos, gentlemen. resting as II does On politl-
cal basis, must derive much OF it's strength and
value, from harmony and coidlality between
the distant members In n despo,ic govern.
ment, resting on the principle Of the immedi.
ate subordina,ion of all the pats TO one head,
this harmony among THE subjects Is MOI
necessary. II may even be tho interest of the
7 ..ol IL.
en- parts ofihe state against each other thus
preventing them from combining nc ainst him.
self But in popular government where eye-
~ thing is ultimately referred 10 the will of the
citizens. mutual good will between them is all
important It's therefore most fortunate for
ms, thai the nesls Oh which our Union rests. is
natural, broad and stable. The several parts
of which It is composed have not been bound
10 each other, by the measuIes OF a preponder
atinR political power, exerted by the stronger
members to attach the weaker 20 their sover-
! eighty. We do not owe our gathering togeth-
, 81 into this family OF states, TO the iniermar.
riage of northern Ferd:nands with southern
lsabellas. Our Union was not cemenied by the
sealing wax Of diplomatic congresses, (where
foreign statesmen sit in judgment, to parcel
out reluctant provinces among rival empires J
nor by the blood of disastrous battle fields HID
such been the origin of our association, we
might have expected, that incuiable anlipa-
thirs would exist between the dscordant mem
; bers aud that n Onion, commenced in power
violence, or intrigue, would continue in disguit
Will, il lasted and end in civil war. On the
contrary, among numerous instructive aspects
in which our political system presents itself 10
the con- empation OF the friends of Liberty,
none is more important than that, in which il
teaches the most suspicious mode of extending
| "A DDnHIar pOVprumf n vast a.
country, filled by arapdy increasing popnla
tion, by means ola confederation ofslales
The superficial observer. not merely abroad
tut at home, may regard the multiplication OF
states, with their different local interests, as
m alarming source OF disseniion, threatening
eventual destruction 10 the republic. But had
the sagacity Of The most profound politician
been exercised TO conirive a mode, IN which
he continent Of North America should become
one broad theatre. for The exercise of the RICH $
y and the enjoyment and preparation of The
privileges oil republican government aud ra.
iional liberty, il may well be doubted, whether
any other SO efiettnal, SO prompt, and AZ The
same time simple, could have beeo devised
y him, as the creation OF a number OF separate
.lhtes, successfully formed, as Il population
hfcoming dense IN the older settlements, had
$ poured itself out into the newer fields OF ad
srn and promise united By confederate,
= IL the pursuit of all objects Of common and
,snrral interest and separate, independent,
and sovereign rs TO all nj individual concern
II is thus, that our Union is exte ding itself
not as mele matter OF political arrangement
still less by compusion and power, but by the
$ choice and acl Of the individual cifizens.
What have we seen in all The newly settled
portions Of he Union The hardy and en-.
terprisng youth finds society in the older SET
tlrments comparatively filled up. His portion
| ofthe old family farm is too narrow TO SATISFY
his wants or his desires, and he goes forth
with the paternnl blessing, aud often with little
else, To take mp his share OF the rich heria-.
! whir h the God Of nature has spread before him
in this western world. He quits the and of his
fathers, the scenes Of his early DAYS, with ten
, 'er regret Pli,lenng in his eye, though hope
nantes on his cheek He does not. as he de-
parts, shake off the dust OF the veneratcd soil
3 f ON his feet but he goes OH the bank OF some
distant river to perpetuate the RENE m brance
} OF the home oil his chdhoods. He piously hes
r tows the name OF The spot, where he was born
) on the spot to which he has wandered and
, while be is labOring with the difficulties, strng.
Cling with the pripaions. languishfng perhaps
, under the diseases, incident to the new settle.
neni and the freshly opened soil, he remem-
7ers the neighborbood whence he sprung The
.oofthat sheltered his infancy the spring that
I pushed from the rock by his fathers door.
where he was wont 10 battle bis heated fore.
head after the toll OF his youthful sports the
5 village school h, use the rural church the
I graves Of his father aud his mother Ia few
: years II new community has been formed the
forest has disappeared, beneath the sturdy arm
: OF the emigrani his children have grown mp,
the hardy offspring oil the new cline and he
rising settlement is already linked in all its
partalites and associations with thar, from
which its fathers and founders had wandered.
Such, for the most part, is The manner in which
! the new states have been built up and IN this
way foundation is laid, by nature herself, for
peace, CO dialiiy, and brotherIy feeling between
, the ancient and recent settlements OF the coun-
, try.
; II is, however, the necessary course of things
that as the newly settled portion of the couu
, try is organised into states possessing each the
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