Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1837-03-24

he felt al the-unexpected puDiic 'We'eo"''
had received. M
AZ half past six o'clock the appointed ex-
cruises at Niblo's saloon took place. Long
before the hour the garden was tbrongeu
bv respectablc citizens, all eager 10 be ilrs'
and secure the best places. When the doors
were opened the rush was prodigious Inc
nroceedinps were commenced by calling
David b. Ogden to the chair, as President
Robert C. Cornell Jonathan Goodhue, Jo-
semi Tucker. and Nathaniel Wood, Esqrs
we're appointed Vice Presidents. Joseph
Hoxie and George s. Robbins, Secretaries
Philip Hone, Esq. addressed the meeting
on the part of the committee 10 receive Mr.
Webster, and said that agreeably TO their
instructions they had met Mr. Webster at
Amboy, and having performed the agreea,
Bile office of conducting him TO N. 4 would
now introduce TO their fellow citizens the
man whom every American delighted to non
or. and who was at that moment conducted
10 the stage by gentlemen OF the committee.
Mr. Webster was received with nine dis
tinct cheers, and followed by a most enthu-
sastic greeting, which lasted for several
minutes Mr. II b. Ogden then read ihe lol-
lowing address to him:
ION behalf Of Committee, appointed at
meeting of a number OF your personal and
political friends in this city, have now the
honor Of addressing you.
| Il has afforded the Committee, and may
add all your political friends, unmingled
pleasure 10 learn that you have, at least for
the present, reinquished the intention which
| know you had formed, Of resigning your
seat in the Senate Of the United States
While expressing their feelings upon this
change in your determination the Commit
tee cannot avoid congratulating the country
that YOUR public services arc not yet TO be
lost TO it, and that the champion Of the Con-
stitution and of the Union is still TO continue
in the field, upon which he has earned so
many laurels and has so nobly asserted and
defended the rights and Liberties OF the Peo-
Pile
THE efforts made by you and the honor
able men with whom YOU have acted in the
Senate. to resist executive encroacbments
upon the other departments OF the govern
ment, will ever be remembered with graft
tude by the friends of American liberty
That these efforts were not more successful,
we shall long have reason to remember and
regret The administration Of General
Jackson is fortunately at an end. Its effects
upon the constitution and upon the CONNER
cial prosperity Of the country are not at an
end. Without attempting to review the
leading measures Of his administration, eve
nv man engaged in business in New York
feels, most sensibly. that his experiment upon
Tho currency has produced the evils which
you fore,old it would produce. 1t has
, brought distress. to an extreme never befor.
experienced, upon the men OF enterprise ant
of small capital. and has pu, all the primary
power in the hands Of few great capt.
, alists.
4 "Upbn the Senate our eyes and our hope.
arc fixed we know that you and your pc
, liiieal friends are in minority in that body
bat wo know in that body arc TO be fount
great talents, great Experience, great patriot
I exertons TO maintain The constitution th'
union and the Liberties Of this people. Ant
1. we take this opportunity Of expressing on
4 entire confidence. that whatever men can d,
in minority, will be done in the Senate, L
/ relieve the country from the evils unde
which she is now laboring, and to save he
from being sacrificed by folly. corruption, o
usurpaiion"
ut gives me, sir, pleasure, to be the orgal
! Of the commute to express to you their grea
respect for your talents, their deep sense c
, the importance of yonr public services, an
: their qualification 10 learn that you will still
/ continue in the Senate"
s Vast as was the audience, il was hushe
l. TO less silence than a whisper, as Mr. Wei
=, ster proceeded TO respond TO the address
d the President; and he held the audenc
e chained in silence save when interrupte
o by burst of applause which il was impo
q sible to suppress, for two hours and twenty
D. FIVE minutes. But although we were SO 70
a tuna,e us TO hear every word we shall a
IS tempt no report but wait for correct cop
y from the authors own hand, which we tru
a. will not long be delayed.
rs After expressing his thanks TO the Con
a mittee and citizens generally, for the hone
ly they had done him, and his high appreci
n ton Of the testimony awarded in favor
Y. his efforts to serve the country, by comm
ID nifty so intelligent and capable OF. renderin
in sound judgment as that of the great COZ
he mercial metropolis. Mr. Webster adverted
n, the obligations of national Legislators
of study the interests, not of sections but of Il
n whole Union; and justly laid claim to Il
r. merit of having endeavored so to shape
On Legislative conduct, through the whole of
he political course.
be He then spoke of General Jackson, wi
&C. the respect due to his age, the high static
on so lately occupied by him, and his maj
as valuable services TO the country. his inca