Weekly national intelligencer., 1847-06-05
RECEPTION OF Mn. WEBSTER IN SAVANNAH
FROM THE SAVANNAH RrpuBL1cAs.


on the morning OF Wednesday, the Goth ultimo, the
Committee of Thirteen waited upon Mr.. WEBSTER at
his lodgings and escorted him to the platform erect
! ed against the Greene and Pulaski Monument, in
s1Nonument square. A very large audience in
attendance among whom we noticed most of our
towns people of both sexes Of our acquaintance
We have seldom seen a brighter more interest
ing spectacle in this city.
Mr. WEBSTER having taken his place upon the
stage, and quiet prevailing among the audience, was
addressed by the Hon. j. M. WAYNE, as follows:
JUDGE WAYNE's ADDRESS.
Sin: The people of Savannah mindful Of the services
which you have rendered to county, welcome
you to our city. We mean it to be hearty welcome
Unaided by those accidents of fortune which give to some
temporary nooey you have achieved for yourself and
mostly in the service Of your country lasting reputation as
uris, orator. and But, than his-and that
which think you value mos-you have also in working
your way such distinction, much of the confidence
and friendly regards Of your contemporaries day
public hope enjoy Proofs of have been gwen
to you every where. They awaiting your arrival If sick
had shortened your journey wherever you might
have gone. Those kindly influences worth thousand
other triumphs 1t is in such spirit now address you
and if the hundreds in view could hear my voice. theirs
would respond with the same feeling
All that you have done sir and the manner in which it
has been done will be told in history More than thirty
years of public service have identified you with the leading
political incidents of that time Memorable things have hap
pened The prominent actors in them will be judged, not
alone by the parts they may have taken but by the conse-
quences and of Time contempora
ry misconsrucon. Posterity will give its judgment free from
the misguidng interests and predces of past generation
History Gods providence in human affairs, and it part
of triumph error and assign the great
their proper places
Yours sir believe, will be with those spirits
who framed the constitution of Union 1t has already
made great nation and numerous people. With
shall become all that nation be. Without it, nothing
that people should be- The effort of your life has been to
maintain that constitution in all that you believe be e-
climate powers. Others and of them our ables men,
differ from you. But whenever those differences have
discussed you have failed gain the respect of those
who did agree with you because your opinions have
always been openly avowed and maintained with signal abi-
y and conceded patriotic intention. All too admit that
has been uer than yourself the compromises Of the
constitution In the House of Representatives. in the Senate
Chamber IN the Courts your official dispatches and up
popular occasions home and elsewhere when you have
spoken, and when proper you have said that
these compromises be kept they by the
trainers Of the constitution, and they received by the
States which ratified it. We do doubt that you will
tnue to think and with all that ervor of feeling
with which you exclaimed in reference the Union
the States, " Liberty and Union, and forever, and
nseparable"
From one of your constitutional suggestions every man in
the land has been less benefited. We allude il
with the greater pleasure because controversy be-
gun by Georgian behalf of the constitutional rights of the
citizen.
When the late Mr. Thomas Gibbons determined to hazard
large part of his fortune testing the constituonaly
the laws of New York. limiting the navigation of the
IN that State TO steamers belonging company his
teest not much concerned that of the right Of
every citizen TO coastng license upon the waters of the
United States IN whatever their vessels propelled
II sound Of the law, but no broad enough for the
occasion 1t is unlikely that the would been
decided upon you had insisted that should be pu
upon the broader constitutional ground of and
CATION The Court felt the application and force of your
sonng and made decision releasing every creek and river
lake. bay and harbo country from the ntereences
monopoies which had already povok ed unendy Legislation
between of the States and which would have been
little favorable the interest of Fulton they unwo
thy Of his genius Nor must permit this occasion pass
without noticing your administration Of the State Department
We of the South very large portion of your fellow-c
did every where recognise in what then done pac
teal ability remarkably suited to the time Of action with
comprehensive support Of every American and right
domestic and foreign
One word, sir The place from which give you oul
welcome has been consecaed by the memory Of Greene
and Pulaski 1t is fit place for peoples welcome to be
given to who has deserved well of the Republic Ii
minds Of those Revolutionary which excite in all
Americans common sympathy. II should be cultivated by
all OF has hitherto resisted the contentious of interest
and the passions Of party And it, any time hereafter,
dark cloud shall threaten our harmony will be made
harmless by holding the people the remembrance Of their
fathers, united IN the of American freedom Upon
part we shall never forget that Georgia gave early
10 the earlier emonsance OF Massachusetts those
OF Parliament OF which she the victim but which were
evelled against the liberties of all the colonies When the
boder language Of Suffolk than which had been used
BEFORE proclaimed for the first me that the colonies were
only part OF the realm of England by compact which would
be dissolved the acts of which Massachusetts, complained
were not repealed, repeated here with pledges our
sister colonies to JOIN them in any and every Of
ssance. The patriots of Georgia not slow in showing
that they in Their and grandsons and
greagandsons bearing the honors their paternity gracefully
and unobtrusvey but with all the sympahies of their fathers
here to-day 10 unite with the of us to give Won our
welcome Accept it, sir and should you, upon your return
home, be called upon tell any thing of your visit to the
South tell those whom you may speak you have been
among people who, in the real respect which they and
have shown 10 youse intended also manifest their attach
ment to our Northern and Eastern BRETHREN and to show that
their prevailing political feeling is devotion Union
May God animate all the people of all the States with the
same sentiment and impress upon their hearts that duty
which we to him, fathers, and our postery to
maintain Defend and preserve the Unon and transmit
entire to future generations.
REPLY OF MR. WEBSTER
| Mr. WEBSTER commenced his remarks by saying that he
could not but be duly sensible the respect pad him by the
citizens of Savannah They had appointed committee 10
welcome him. composed OF distinguished citizens placed
at its head gentleman well known to himself personally and
to the public filling with equal honor to himself and the
country the high station Of Associate Judge OF the Su-