Litchfield enquirer., 1829-07-16

the strengthening tlis union than an easy communication from cast 10 west.
 Subsidiary to this and every other meas ure of legislative enactment aiming at the same end, is that interchange of the cour- tesies of social fife, by which kind feeling is to be awakened or fostered. As be- tween individuals sp between States which are composed of individunls, there IS a temper and feeling as important to be Erightly directed tS the course of leg'sla- Etion or the public policy. On this topic, although perhahs nore appropriate io.the occasion, Icould. rDt, within any rcasona- ble limits, nor witbout going beyond the hounds of delicacy toward the audience l address. express AIl that I feel {; all thar has been inspired h my bosom, by what have witnessed of Inc courtesy, the cordi- ality. the hospitality of the west. lwould not, to be s,ire.. Ee thought to have been so uniformed ofany part of the country, as to he wholly ienor}ni of the state ofpublic sentiment prevailing in it on any impor- 1 tant point. @ But it will not. ! hope, be thought impertinGnt, I say, that it has been
 not without some surprise, as well as tho highest qualification, that have made a journey of between three and four thou sand miles in the west, in the public con- veyances, by land and water, always witll- out companion, often unknown and without having heard Ia syllable which 1 could give pain to tue feelings of(what ] trust shall ever show myself a dntiful son of New England. cannot but cher- ish the hope, that improving means of communication between the States will put 1 it in the power of increasing numbers of our brethren, in any part of the Union, to give as good an accoNut of that portion oft to which belong, and from an experience | as agreeable. ] ees* ei'4*fed ler N nla In tue early care, which in this and some of the neighbonring states, has been had for tue establishment of places of edu- cation, though much is naturally still to be done, Ilrecognize, the spirit, which anima- tod the rilgrim fathers of New England, never to be mentioned by their descendants without praise) in vhe same cause. You have had your Morrison as we had our 1 Harvard. As D continuity, you have al- ready given pledges, that you arc detcr- mined yopr postegity shall have cause to bless your memory. as we have to bless the
 nemary of our ancestors. Lot but the ! foundatiens.he deeply laid in a liberal pub. lie and private patronage, and the intellec- frials edliice salic rs0Iid fabric If an sen- Ilightened comm6nityz Twill stand fSran, though tho brick and tho marble may, tor 1 a time. sink heneatli tic dcvOuring flames, and tho scientific treasures they contained. be sed0ced to dust and ashes. sassg ha. There is one association recalled to my mind, in visiting this place, Co whiclIait would bc unpafdonablc, were insensible 1; an association, which has perpetuated ,iti tho name of your city, that of an ever-mGmo- rable village in the county ! inhabit, and lin the near neighHourhood of my ,resi- Idencc. When the news ofihc baule of Lexington, on the 10th of April, 1775, reached party of hunters, assembled at the spring in this place, they resolved. tn prophetic commemoration of that event, to give the name of Lexington to the place ofthcir encampment, and the town that should there be founded Not more ihall fifty, years, believe, have passcd away, since the actual laying out of this town and in that period, what monument have nos you and your fathers reared to the brave and good men, who, at that donbtfh
 crisis ofthe country's fate, on the morn ol Ihcr independence, offered up their lives ir her sacred cause They were not of you kindred, except in the kindred of strng- gling liberty, and by the blood, which they shed for your freedom as for their .own.-- They lie in their humble graves, in thu beautiful village, where they fell and { simple stone marks the scene oftheir cost
 ly sacrifice but how wor,hily. in the re
 mote west, has their pions self.dcvotiol been commcmorated, in the ample streets the slightly dwellings, the substantial publ r sdifces, inthe charitable, the literary, ,th, religious foundations of this timportan town! " .ias IN N f9Te ss
 Meantime, inAthe astonishing progres, of, our country, this state, then an almos Ipsthless wilderness, half explored, untitled 6r titled only by the bold hunter, whs went to tho field with spade in one haris and rife in the other. has become ifsel the parent of other rising states. Beyan. the Wabash---beyond the Mississippi-. there are now large communities, who lool to these their native fields. with tho sam, feelings, with which your fathers looked back to their native homes in Virginia.-. have myself, within week or two, heart an individual, who had bccnsio explore fol q A.,na .,, n1I:6....H !