Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1829-06-22

Will believe, but ia * roll be.een
GJ' Every true American, and every friend of AInc
RIGA will read the following Speech of Mr.. Everett
with high satisfaction.
MIR. EVERETI"S SPEECH
.4td Public Dinner gspen 10 him by The Ci6sens o
Nashville, (Tenncsscc.)
Nh. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN: The scnti
mcnt which has Just been announced, and the kin
attention Of which find myself, this occasion tn
object, dcmnnd my particular acknowledgements
Coming among you from a remote district of tn
country; personally acquainted my arrival, will
but single individual, besides your distinguish,
Representative in Congress; possessing none of thos,
public and political claims your. notice. which
Usually acknowledged By courtesies OF this kind,
find mySelfthe honored guest OF this day. cordially
greeted by 80 large q company, where could have
expected only IT, form few Hcquaintances, andmade
TO feel myself at home III the land Of strangers
should feclthae sense of oppression which unmerited
honor ought always to produce, did look within
myself for the Of this flatern9 distinction.
1t IS not here, gentlemen that look for IL. know
that it flows from much higher source; from your
ready hospitality; from your liberal feeling, which is
able to take in those parts Of the Republic which
the most remote from you, and which disposes you,
even toward the person Of individual stranger to
strengthen the bonds of good will between all the
brethren Of the great American family. 1t is in this
view of the subject alone, that could reconcile my
accepting this kind proer of your public attentions
with the noffensve privacy which it is my study TO
preserve in my present journey for the sake of which
have been led, more than one occasion since
LETT home, to express wish to be excused from SINH
tar attentions the part political riends attentions
which would have implied public standing which l
do not possess and would have caused my excursion
TO be ascrlbed another than its real motive That
motive, gentlemen ia the long cherished wish to be-
hold, with my own eyes, this western world not of
promise merely, but of most astonishing and glorious
fhlhllInent. The wonders as they may justly be call
cd, of the West; the prodgous extent of the terrific
ry the magnitude OF the streams, that unite into
great system the reoest parts of this boundiess re-
gon the fertility of its SOIL of which the accounts
till they are verified by actuu observation, seem ra-
ther like the fables of than sober narrative
were among the earliest objects that attracted my
youthful curiosity Whilst visiting some of the most
ancient abodes of civilization in tho elder world had
frequently occasion to observe land have no doubt
Dir. President that your observation confirmed the
'act) that the curiosity of the intelligent men of Eu-
rope was more awake on the subject Of this, than of
any other portion OF our country. or the Atlantic
coast they have some general knowledge arising
romthe length of time since IT settled, and the
political events OF which it has been the theatre
But the Valley of the Mississippi seemed to have
presented ITSELF il were, suddenly to their inapi-
nations, as most peculiar, important, and hitherto
comparatively unknown region. But from the time
that have been led particularly reflect on the
Western country, in its social relations to the rest of
the Union, have felt irresistible desire to under
OBSERVATION. the 5tupenQOU9 WORK
ofhuman advancement which is here going on and of
which the history of mankind certainly affords no
other example. cannot but think il the most in
terestDg subject of contemplation which the world
at present affords. Apart from the grand natural
features OF the scene the aspect Of popuous towns
sprlnging like an eghalatlon from the sol-of va
cant or savage wilderness transmitted, in gener-
aton, into thIckly inhabited terrtory-must
family appeal as strongly to the inqnistive mind, as
tho sight OF crumbng towers, Of prostrate columns,
OF cities once renowned and powerful reduced 10 mi
SCRABBLE rilns and crowded provinces turned into de-
scrts While these latter objects are thought suFi-
clent to reward the traveller for distant pilgrimage
oforegn countries, he may well be pardoned for feel
ing himself attracted by the opposite spectacle which
IS presented to him at homeu scene, not Of decay,
but of teemng life; Of improvement almost too rapid
TO seem the result Of human means.
II iso Temark often quoted Of a celebrated foreign
statesman, (Talleyrand.) that America presents, as
You travel westward, in point Of space, the same
succession Of appearances, which may be traced in
Europe, you 90 back in point Of tme that as you
move fromthe coast towards the interior oil this con-
tnent, you pass through those fages Of civilization
whlch are found IN Europe you follow its history
pack 10 the primitive ages II wetake the aboriginal
tribes OF our continent into the survey there is some
i0undatlon for tho remark, but applied TO our own
population. AZ IS rather ingenious than solid. The
scene presented by our Western country is not that
~ baTbarous race, growing up like the primitive
tbes OF Europe, into clyze nations, butt s the far
more Interesting bccausche rapid and intelligent
progress of civilized people, extending itselfthrough
agute wilderness; and transpanting the mature arts
o HE into the hidden rcccsse ofhe forest The trav
ecr, wlo prnetraics thousand two thousand
MILES from the cast TO the interior, may find, II il
rue The log hut Of the first settlers, he may find
within the limits Of Philadelphia and New York, aye,
OF Paris or London, many wretched howell far less
commodous but he will also find here substantial
dwellings; spacious, even magnificent mansons--tbc
abodes OF competence aud Of abundance sufroun-
dcd by MI the Indications oftbc improved arts Of life.
i have lcaTned, TO my astonishment, that within
twenty years the city Of Nashville has grown up,
rom MOI exceeding four or FIVE brick houses, to its
present condition, as large populous. and thriving
capt. The mart "f great sDd increasing commerce,
exhibiting, for tho number of It's inhabitants, as ina
ny costly edfccs any city in the Union. The log
houses have disappeared, NOT in the lapse Of two
-hovs nj Or cvcn two hgnfted years bit in the