The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-06-19
From the Providence fR. l. Chroaieie.
lie PRESIDENT IN PROVIDENCE.

The Inequalities Of the city were carried out by
our Mayor and Common Council in a manner
aecting the greatest credit upon them. Nothing
left uudoue which could be done 10 render his recep
ton throughout such as was merited. We are hap
ny 10 learn that the treatment which the President
has received from us, has sunk deep into his heart,
and that he will look back upon the day he passed
here, with unmingled pleasure.
To continue, our record of the doings-the Presi
dent ,n align iug at the Franklin House repaired 10
the rooms prepared for him, where the members Of
the City Council and several Of our distinguished cit
liens waited on, and were presented to him. Amer
the business Of introduction gone through with,
the company partook of very elegant COLLATION. which
Whitcomb had prepared at the instance Of the com
mittee Of arrangements
At half past 2 o'clock the President was conducted
10 Westminster Hall, where large number Of our
citizens were presented to him.
The party then started for the Colleges which the
President had been invited to visit and where trans
PRED one Of the most gratifying of the day.
The President and his suite received by com
mitee Of the Faculty entering the College grounds,
and conducted TO tie Cabint room in Rhode Island
Hail. where the undergraduates of the University "a
!
Of our city awaited his arrival. lie was here wei
coined TO the Colleges by President Waysnd in the
following manner We copy DR.. VS. remarks
from the Journal
Ma. PREsDESr II gives me peculiar pleasure,
in the name of the Corporation, Faculty, and Under
graduates Of Brown University, 10 welcome TO this
ancient seat Of learning the Chief Magistrate Of the
United States. 1t has not escaped the observation Of
your ellow-citizens that, while dlscharging the du-
ties Of laborous profession and loaded with all the
honors which your country has IT IN her power TO be-
stow you have yet found leisure to cultivate the ibe
raj sciences and with parental TO watch over the
interests Of the Colleges and Universities Of your ma
tive State. Human life presents no more august
spectacle than that Of mind enriched with all the
learning of the past, directing by their own choice
the present energies Of a mighty people and yet
with patriotic forehought guiding the destinies Of
the future into the channels Of intelligence and virtue
We bad you welcome to this University, conseorated
10 The cause OF sound learning, pure religion, republic
can liberty and constitutional law. We shall be
grat6ed with the opportunity Of exhibiting to YOU
the means by which private muni6cence has enabled
us TO accomplish the object Of foundation and TO
receive the benefit Of your large experience snd ma
ture wisdom. Allow me first to present to you the
Corporation, Faculty, and Undergraduates Of Brown
University
The President replied in one Of his most felicitors
efforts. One in which It is impossible TO represent
hun fairly or fully upon paper TO either the matter
I III
responses always are.
! He spoke Of the pleasure he experienced in being
received within the walls Of the Institution by tie
Corporation and Faculty of this nourshng Uniyersi-
ty whose extended usefulness IN furnishing the means
Of a egate education 10 the rising gen, ration was
well known and deeply appreciated so at least. he
judged as well from what he had heard as Bha, he
saw before him. lie spoke Of the vital importance
Of education TO the best interests Of the country and
! TO the permanence Of our republican institutions
| tlov ,,th ~ he IA,
the place their fathers and furnish the Legislators
and the Executives Of the country. To enable them
to do this properly they should be thoroughly trained
not only in sound learning, but IN sound morals II
was vastly important that they should receive hivb
degree Of moral instruction IA order TO arm them for
all the conflicts in which they might be called To en-
] gage. This moral tone could not be communicated
without the basis Of a sound religious influence No
work Of man prospered without the and OF Divine
! Providence.
The duty Of Professors and Instructors in training
youth for the future management OF the Affairs OF this
mighty and growing confederation, was one Of high
trust well as honor but with corresponding res
possibilities for It's due exercise by those who assumed
IT, The youth, too, should receive with becoming
respect and attention the suggestions Of their tutors
melting them on, IN their exalted career
remember well, said he, When I was a COLLEGE
student, and although all pains was taken 10 urge
upon me the necessity 0! attention. fear sometimes
played tulant-yet IL did not avail tho lessons had ia
be connet, the instructions impaired had 10 be rcceiy
cd and understood Youth Is apt 10 lotcr along the
road and pluck the wild flowers growing near its
path, but there be 30 moral derection nuts train
ing, the seed OF sound principles in the college
course, viii grow and bud and bloom and bring for1b
fruit OF which the public and The nation will receive
1 the full benefit sooner or later
Aer this exchange on the part Of the two Prosi-
dents, President Tyler wgs escorted through process
sion OF undergraduates, TO the College Library
he then took his leave, passing TIE students WHO