The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1842-07-23

the abundant products of your country, and the va
rlous manufactures OF ours, will be freely inter-
changed; that commercial transactions will become
as uncontrolled by fiscal restrictions as are the
waves, which, whilst they separate, vet serve to
! unite the parent with the daughter country. We
feel convinced, that the doom of monopoly is sealed
IN our land, that even the blindness OF party is be.
coming enghtend, and that all the wise and good
will soon be brought TO regret that a single hour
should have been allowed to pass without the adop-
| ton OF the sound principles of free trade.
! I'VE would hope-nay, we cannot doubt-that
IN your native land, OF whose free institutions you
are justly Proud, commerce will not long be permit
ted to languish IN letters; and that all who would
| give her perfect freedom, in your country and in
ours, will not only hold out to each other The hand
! Of friendship, and cooperate to advance the great
! principles we espousc, but to have to greet each
other on the speedy realization of the objects they
so ardently desire
We are most axious that perpetual peace should
exist between the two countries-peace founded on
mutual respect and mutual benefits and that
wherever the flag OF our respective countries may be
unfurled, II may be hailed the herald Of amty of
! civilization. and OF religion
To your excellency, individually, we desire TO
convey our most earnest wish that your soourn
amongst us may be gratifying 10 Yourself and tend
| in an eminent degree, to promote the most kindly
feelings between the great people, whose interests
| you have the distinguished honor To represent and
the inhabitants of these realms vast majority Of
whom, we feel assured, most cordially unite with us
In the sentiments we now express, from full per-
suasion that the consunmation Of their views will
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selves, to you, and TO the world"
Mr. EVERETT, having received the address amidst
tho most cordial and friendly greetings and cheers
from the meeting, replied TO the following effect
Mr. Greg and Gentlemen-i feel very much flatter-
ed by tbs unexpected honor Of the address, which
you have had the goodness to present me- on behalf
OF the merchants manufacturers, raders,an others,
nhabltantsioi.Manches andlts vicinity beg you
10 receive my grateful Acknowledgements. for your
kind welcome, with which shall lose no time in
acquainting my government Permit to offer
you my sincere thanks for the friendly sentiments
you have been pleased to express towards the people
and government of the United States, and to assure
you that those sentiments cordially reciprocated
by those whom l have the honor-however un-
worthily-to represent. The relation between our
two countries is indeed, sir you have described
it, of most intimate character more so probably
than has ever existed between two great states. l
am grafed to believe that this relation has contri-
buted, In no small degree, to the prosperity of both
and that such may continue to be the case, must be
the desire of every patriotic citizen Of either coun-
try: ,(Cheers.) On those topics of the address,
| which are matters of controversy, both in England
and the United States, the delicacy of my official
position precudes me from any comment Our two
governments Qed by similar considerations in refer
ence to the state OF their nances) are now engaged
| In revising the laws of trade. shall cordially re-
loice In the utmost possible extension of commercial
| intercourse, which the wisdom and experience of
the two governments shall deem compatible with
| the welfare OF their constituents Cloud cheers)
In your wishes tor the perPetuation OF peace between
England and the United States. most heartily con-
cur. Its interruption should deem most disastrous
| to both (; ! will add, to the whole cvilised world
| Renewed cheers.) Nothing that can do con-
slsently with my duty to my country shall be spared
| to avert such a catastrophe; of which, am happy
to say, have no apprehensions. 1t ismy ardent de-
| sire that our two kindred countries may run long
and glorious career OF mutual and emulous exertion
TO promote the arts of civilized life deeply re-
greet, Mr. Greg and gentlemen, that my visit to Man
chester is necessarily so short: what have seen of
II but increases my desire TO more In respect
fully taking my leave of you, l beg you to accept
my best wishes for your individual welfare, and for
the prosperity OF this great, enterprsing and neli-
| entpopulation. (Great cheerng)
| The interview shortly afterwards terminated all
present, we believe, being much gratfed with the
manner In which MIR. Everett responded TO the adj
| dress
| HoNoRs TO THE AMERICAN AMBASSADOR the
| annual dinner of the members of the British Asso.
| citation, held in Manchester, on Saturday after the
usual routine of toasts, Lord Francis Egcrton the
chairman, said that among the distinguished foreign
ers present there was one whom, although he came
| from far country, from another hemisphere, and
asthe representative OF foreign State, still he (he
chairman) would not class Z" a foreigner''-(ap-
plause) nor would he any of his countrymen be
so considered in this island. They spoke common
language, they had common origin, and the same
Anglo Saxon blood flowed in The veins of both =
cloud and continued cheering) 1t was only ne
cessary to go from the factory exhibitions of Man
chester to the quays and docks OF Liverpool, for any
man to be convinced that no mission could be al
once more honorable or more important than that
OF cuvating and cementlng if he may, friendly re-
ations between two such countries as the United
States of America and England, which was, he be-
heved the main part of the mission of the distn
| gulshed individual near him to this country (Hear
| from MIR. Everett The high reputation of his ho-
nourabe friend had preceded him here and he (the
chairman) was sure that England woud consider
| she could not have had higher compliment paid to
her by the United States than in sending Mr. Eve
rett as her representative. Npplause) The health
OF his Excellency was then drunk by the company
standing, and with marked enthusiasm
His EyceiIapcv the Ap,erican M;n;s,.r 49, go.
and was received with loud cheers He said that he
should be more less than man if he did not feel
considerable embarrassmenta at the manner in which
| the toast had been received He was, however,
relieved the conviction that it was meant to reach
far beyond himse-across the Atlantic-and that il
was meant for the people whom he had the honor to
represent (CheersO He accepted all their kind
ness In the spirit of frankness in which was given
Whilst he experlenced such a welcome as the pre-
| sent, he felt indeed that he was not a stranger
amongst them, but that in crossing the wide ocean
that separated his country from theirs he had come
into the land OF his fathers to receive the kindness
and the charities of hospitality at the hands of their
| successors (Chcers) His excellency then adj
| countries whether founded upon conquest or emf
| grafton. Egypt Greece, and Rome, had each had
colonies but there never had been, and there never
could be, such relations between them now ex..
listed between the United States Of America and
this country (Appla use Those relations were to
he found In the mysterious bond of a common lam l
| guage, common origin, and perfect conviction
! that they were destined TO EXCISE an all-powerful
influence on whatever they were destined, and to
fulfil the highest ends the order of Providence for
| the welfare and happiness Of both When America
was prosperous the hand-loom weavers felt it in
England; and when manufactures and com
merce in England languished, the pulses of
America beat feebly and slow With respect
TO the now staple commodity Of America, it was
doubtless known that the cultivation of cotton in
the United States was but of recent origin So re-
Gently as 1854, the first parcel that arrived at Liver
pool was seized as connaband and supposed to be
The production oil the West Indies Now, BY the
improvements made In the culture and treatment of
cess by which the seed was eparated from the fire
and by the Improvement affected by Arkwright and
his successors in the spinning of it. the supply from
America would be boundless from the former