Litchfield enquirer., 1843-08-10

a.giass ostentation in the Park Theatre
 have never seen so much of natural ,.. aess, unaffected bearing and simplicity
 as,e, as graced the Theatre Royal, Dub- l, on Saturday evening.
 2EECH OF MIR. ADAMS, AT KOCH.
 ESTER.
 } At7 o'clock Mir. Adams took his place pon theStaging. accompanied by his Honor ir .Iayor, who welcomed him in the fol ,wiag address: <. :-I perform most willing and pleas .,g rty on this occasion, in tendering to u, in behalf of my fellow citizens, their 9 ,,mc 10 the city of Rochester. We re- nize in you the esteemed fellow citizen, f distinguished statesman, the profound .nd eminent scholar-ever the persevcring opponent of every form of tyranny, and ev- ,r the ready and unflinching champion of sRpu Niican freedom,-a.man, who has devo- ed tn singular fidelity, the energies of a hc.'a life uncommonly protracted, to the Dobl st purposes of life--the promotion ot opalar rights, and the highest and best ln- rests of his fellow men.
 To such character we would tender our i. heerful homage and admiration. Such 1an. we delight to honor, and we would in- oke Providence yet to add to years al- sady so full, in which to serve and bless lis country and mankind.
 We have sir, no ancient ruins, no monu- nents of antiquity or ofancestraI renown, to a invite the curiosity fthe AntiquarIan' the ste of the Scholar, or the researches or ,e Philosopher. You visit ayoung city, the owtn as it were of day. The same gen. .stion that redeemed the ground upon
 c. Nt, 1etrn nAary rf htA 'es forest, still live to enjoy, in the rlch,
 profusion, the fruits of their tolls ana lices; in all the pleasures and blessings
 ;i,ilized life. The science of uncuItiva-
 nature, has given place to the ceaseless .,,. of business, and to the voices of glad r echoing from thousands of your coun-
 oen, reaping the advantages, and enjoy
 the blessings which distinguish the cul- Ted and refined, from savage society,"
 Ter Providence, we would ascribe all
 ;e results to our free Constitution, pur-
 .ed by the blood and sacrifices of our
 tic Fathers, and to the laws and insti- 1 ms growing out of it's wise and beneficenf
 visions.
 r, the establishment of our free institutions,
 yerything conductive to their stability perpetuity, we have not been, and are insensbIe to the important and distin-
 shed part you have acted, throughout the
 ma of your long and eventful life; and
 would repeat to you, welcome thrice
 icome to our city!
 Lr.sADAMs was received with three hearty aers, when he addressed the multitude ostantially asfollows:-
 Mr. Mayor and FeltoD Clizens-i fear you ypect from me n speech, and if 1t were m power, oppressed, as am with mingled punishment and gratitude, at what have lperienced and now see of your kindness, D make .a speech, would gratify you with ne, adorned with all the chaste yet simple loquence which are combined in the ad. lress to which you have just listened rom your worthy Mayor. But 1t IS not in ny power. You may probably think .aa: there is some atfectation on my part n pretending inability to address you: know az as many of you do, that have often ad- ,!ressed assemblies like this. But I hope For greater indulgencies from you than this. hope you will consider that have seen Id spoken to multitudes like that now before ..le, but that those multitudes had drowning faces. Those could meet and to those l could speak. But 10 you, whose every face is expressive of generous affection-to you whose every countenance see kindness aad friendship-I cannot speak. 1t is too nuch for me. It overcomes my powers of speech. It is a new scene to me.
 have been educated in and have gone through the career of long lite of public duty. During that career, 4 have often ad- dressed public assemblies; but generally in debate, or upon subjects which had time 10 consider and compose, that might produce something to meet the ear and the atfec- tions. But am here. fellow-citizens, wish- out preparation, and under the inauen co of those oppressive emotions which your extra ordinary kindness has produced. l hope therefore fellow-citizens, that you will not expect speech. A have been toldthat my name IS as ia- niliar to most ofyou as household words. Then may not hope. fellow-citizensi that you will be content to receive house. hold words in return?
 came to you as my own family, fellow :itizens-as one of your family relations nd not as public man. And yet t is i'm ,ossible for me to part from you without say og something to you of the sensations ekpe' fenced by me since Ientered upon tho ter fitory ofahe Empire State.
 When some three or four weeks since. iett my own residence, I did not expect thu I should proceed as far west as this-wlh should extend my excursion further than Lebanon Springs, and be able to- return home in eight or ten days. But onc6 hay. ing entered upon your territory, I seemed impelled, as,if by charm,,to proceed. did accordingly proceed through the length of lakes George and Champlain, and iron thence into the neighboring territory of | foreign power. Even ,heroI saw much tt admire-much to approve-much that was gratifying to my own heart. For fcunt prevailing spirit of friendship and kint feeling, very different from what I hav'