Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1843-11-23
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS AT CINCINNATI.

This venerable Statesman and Patriot arrived at
Cincinnati on the sth inst where he was welcom-
ed with as warm and heartfelt greeting mortal
ever received on earth. At all the places through
which he passed in his journey through the State
Of Ohio he met with reception as creditable to
the people Of that thriving commonwealth as it
was gratifying to the " old man eloquent" There
is no public man, observes the Cincinnati Gazette,
Of any age or country, who has done little to de-
fend himself against mistaken prejudices, or ill
founded ISLANDERS, and who has so completely lived
them down by the exercise of strong, unyielding
integrity. In out Of Office, as Minister abroad,
as President, or member of Congress, as a MAN,
he stands confessedly the purest among the pure
no temptation ever alured him from the path Of
truth; no threats ever alarmed him; and neither
the fear of the people, the fear of party, nor
any other fear, ever deferred him from doing his
whole duty conscience and the law directed him.
So the country feels; and hence, wherever he
might go, he would be received and honored as the
true, unfaultering champion Of freedom of opinion
and the rights Of man!
Mr.. Adams visited Cincinnati at the request Of
the Astronomical Society of that city, for the pur
pose of laying the corner stone of an Observatory,
which service was performed in the presence of an
immense concourse on the 9Th inst. The Gazette
is filled with accounts Of the ceremony that
cason, and other interesting ceremonies in the eve
ming and the two following days. Mr.. AS address
on laying the corner stone at the observatory and
his remarks at one of the churches the next day
are exceedingly interesting, but we have this week
the ladies on the 9th.
THE TEA PARrY.-The Tea Party of our Tenn
perance friends, at Shires Garden last evening" was
both pleasant and imposing.
The two main entrances to the Garden We're
lighted up brilliantly, and covered with tasteful
representations oil paper bearing upon them, in
large letters, the motto Of the Temperance Society,
" The INTEGRITY OF OUR PLEDGE WE WILL EVER
SUSTAIN"
The interior of the Theatre was neatly arranged.
1t ornamented with evergreens, and well selec-
ted paintings, and seemed to speak of the joy
which was soon 10 be enkindled in so many hui
man bosoms.
But we looked with greater wonder, we must
confess, upon the supper arrangements. There
were eleven hundred feet Of tables. Every por-
ton of them was loaded down with provisions, and
so arranged, so elegantly ornamented, as to look,
brilliantly illuminated as the pavilion was, like a
grand festival scene The centre of the roof above,
the pillars supporting the roof, were entwined
thickly with evergreen, and as the light came in
contact with its dark shadow, the contrast was no
less beautiful than striking. Then the catablcs,
with the devices emblematic Of devotion to Tenn
perance, and yet tempting one to excess by their
very look, how tastefully they were arranged.
Another sight we cannot forbear to mention II
yhoro
The throng was dense. Yet there was joy all
around! The young, the middle age, the aged,
were there, all animated by the best feelings, glad
to meet each other, glad to look upon the display,
glad to greet our mothers, wives and sisters who
had secured for all that display, but gadder yet TO
try's and mans friend! The whole scene was full
oflife 1t was an occasion which appealed to, and
stirred up, the best and priest feelings of the heart
At an early hour the Theatre was filled to over
flowing. We were there at half past six, and
found it difficult to obtain seat. An hour after
and no access to the interior could be obtained
Over five thousand persons were in the Garden -
The only difficulty, indeed, which occurred during
the evening, from the rush Of the crowd, and
the consequent separation Of women and children
from their husbands and relatives.
At half past eight the patriot guest arrived with
Judges Wright, Burnet, Mexican, Senator More
head and Dr. Musey, at the Theatre. He was in
Temperance Society. by Judge Wright. Bcllamy
Storer, Esq, responded, the organ to this intro
duction, in the following neat and eloquent address
Mr.. .ad0ns:
You have this day, at the call of scientific
body, performed for them, and trust for the hu-
man race, a noble work. When you ascended yonder
height, you Jaw from its summit, the rare physical
advantages that nature has bestowed upon city
and you could not have been insensible to the vast
improvement achieved by industry and art through
out our borders, during the brief period Of our his
tory. These exhibitions, | am assured, must have
filled your soul with feelings at elevated and
chastened, for they are but the proper monuments
Of free people, to enterprise and genius:
A spectacle is now presented, which invokcs no
aid from the abstruce sciences to adorn it. On be-
half of these ladies', the mothers wives, and daugh
tiers Of our city, welcome you to this delightful
interview-where the whole heart can pour out its
tribute, and the highest power Of mind acknowled-
ges its justice. Sir-f in the study of yondcr
Heavens the utmost to be learned is but glimpse
of the infinite; if suns and systems beyond our WIS.,
ion unknown to us, still perform their glorious rev.
outions if star after star, and constellation, have
appeared and departed, and no one can trace them
in their illmtable fight; there is in the study of
humanity, no such limit to our Investigations
Heaven born sympathy is the moral telescope, by
which we can readily discover all, even the minu-
test elements Of our social being. This, sir, is the
secret Of the great movement in the reform Of our
race which has directed the efforts ofthese your au
ditors, and impressed new character upon the era
in which we live.
And they feel assured that no portion Of your
eventful life would you wish to remember with
more pleasure, than that which has been devoted
to the reformation and improvement of that moral
condition of your fellow men. Sir, the influence Of
these temperance associations is not confined to
time, it reaches beyond it into the eternal future
and when the heavens above us, and all that is
now the labor of science to unfold; all that taxes