Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1829-03-10


AARON OGDEN,
ABRAHAM BROOM
ROBERT BOILING,
ELNATHAN SEARS,
ROBERT KAENE,
j. WOODSIDES,
PHILIP STEWART,
ARMISTEAD LONG.
5NO. nj. TAYLOR,
JOHN BROWNE CUTTING
CALEB STARK,
WILLIAM GAMBEL
JACOB GIDEON, Sr.
To this address, the President made the follow
ing reply:
Respected Friends: Your affectonate address.
awakens sentiments and recolections which feel
with sincerity, and cherish with pride To have
around my person, at the moment of undertaking
the most solemn Of all duties to my country, the
companions Oh the immortol Washington, will al
lord me satisfaction and grateful encoura cement
mat by my best exertions, shall be able to ex-
hibit more than an imitation of his patriotic labors
a sense OF my own imperfections. and the re-
verence entertain for his virtues, forbid me to
hope.
To you, respected friends, the survivors Of that
heroic band who followed him so long and so va
Iiantiy in the path of glory, L offer my sincere
thanRS' and TO heaven my prayers, that your re-
NAMING years may be as happy as your tolls and
your lives have been illustrious.
A. JACKSON.
pie had collected around the door of the Hotel,
anxlously awaiting the appearance Of the Pres-
dent. At eleven, the dense mass made room for
the Revolutionary officers, and for Gen. Thomas
binds, Gen. Richard X. Call, Com. Patterson,
Capt. Catesby Jones, of the Navy, Capt Samuel
Spots, United States Army, 1t. Andrew Ross.
Marine Corps, l.. NJ. Robb, Mr. John Nicholson.
Mr James Fl. Harper, officers of tho late army.
VINO were with Gen. jackson in the battle of the
memorable 9Th OF January, to torn in line; and the
nIaI ~.
and supported by Col. Tow=on and the Marshal Of
me District, and followed by Major Lewis and
MAJ donaldson, Joined the procession on foot and
proceeded TO the Senate Chamber. 1t was ascer-
tanned that the press of the crowd on the East front
was so great as to make it almost impossib,e IN
gain aimittance from that direction, and bv NOV.
ing TO the right, the President, Col. Hunter and
DOCTOR Carson acting as Marshal, the committee
and the officers of the Revolution and the officers
OF the late war, named above, entered over the
ParaPet az the western door. Even there the
press was so great as TO create alarm, lest some
one might be thrown into the area, or trodden un-
Ger loot Al half past eleven, the President en-
tered the Senate Chamber. and was seated in front
OF the Secretary's table. The minister aud char
Ses OF foreign nations resident near the United
states, were seated on his left, anil vacant seats
Tor the Supreme Court his right The Presi-
Dent OF the Senate and Senators in their seats, and
the western gallery, and the area in the chamber
without the bar of the Senate, crowded with the
i"Deis vi VIC tate Rouse OF Representatives,
ana such OF the fair as were fortunate as to OBJ
tam view OF the imposing spectacle For our.
serves, u was the proudest moment Of our exs-
tence. When we saw the President seated by
uie SIDE OF the representatives of other nations
De hahlted in suit of plain black cloth, manufac-
TIRED by his enterprising felow-ci,izens of Balti-
more-,hey with the embroidered coats, glitterine
with gold and ornamented with stars and ribbands
ne the representative Of the supremacy of the
VIII oil the people-they wearing the badges of
herecitary power-we were impelled to contrast
the plain citizen, whose confidence is placed in the
virtue, the intelligence and the affections of prea,
people, with the tawdry pageant of hereditary
power, who on such occasions, would look to the
oayonet and the strong arm of military force, TO
protect him against the violence Of people, whom
he considers himself born to Cypress Where
iives the American who does not rejoice in the
contrast! ~"
At twelve, the President, with the Supreme
Court, the Senate aud its officers, accompanied by
the Marshal and his private secretaries, proce eded
to the East front of the Capitol His appearance on
the platform was announced by the cheers OF the
thousands and tens Of thousands of spectators all
snxiousy looking for his approach. In a moment
all was silence; he bowed, and pronounced in an
audible voice, his Inaugural address.
when the address closed, the gratified multi
tude again rent the air with cheers, and the Pre-
siden, alter taking the oath Of office, proceeded on
horseback TO the Presidents House where for
several hours, he received the salutatons of such
OF his friends as could force their way through
the immense crowd. At about four o'clock he re-
turned to his lodgings at Gsdsbys, much fadgued.
To-day he has been engaged in public duties.
The day itself was remarkable and u a4au'. and
all nature seemed o.rejoice with the people.
The number otpers33c present at the insugu-
ration, has been vsriousiy estimated--we believe
II could not have been less than thirty thousand;
yet, in this immense crowd not one single acct.
dent, tending in the least TO disturb the order or 10
mar the harmony Of the occasion, occurred fB
The Inaugural address Of the President of the
Peoples choice, will be found in our columns
of this evening. IL is short but energetic. dis.
closing without unnecessary prolixity, the prin.
ciples by which the Chief Magistrate will be go
vernedin the discharge Of his official duty The adj
dress breathes throughout the pure spirit Of re-
publicanism of the Jefferson school, and afford.
an earnest Of what the people may look for under
The administration Of one selected for the talents
patriotism, and incorrupible integrity which have
so peculiarly distinguished him. The President
tells US in his address
"In administering the laws Of Congress shall
keep steadily in view the limitation ss well 40 the
extent Of the Executive power, trusting thereby
to discharge the functions oil my office without
transcendng It's authority"
As losg az our government IL administered
Tor the good Of the people, and is regulated BY |
'heir viii; as long as il secures 10 the rights
~ g'i'cn 'a'i o. Pfoprf'y. befty Of conscience.