Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1847-06-11

reputation oil giving her customers ne To-; ,,;,s
land. She received the President anu n,s $50 49,
with The most beautiful suavity, gravity, anu
sheraton Her attentions since have oeen UNI
ring 10 make The whole parry pe'ee'' q Ao
Miss Nancy. she is handsome
And she feeds some four score college boys,
And they like her, one and all.
THE TALK IN THE CHAPEL.
From the hotel the President and company
were escorted 10 the Chapel oil the university,
where they were seated with the heads OF Inc COM
mitlees, upon The rostrum. The crowd peihe ID
length seated, and order restored,
Gov. SWAIN, President of The University, rose,
and confronting the President OF The Unied States,
also upon his feet, said Nearly generation,
Mr.. President, has passed away, since with your
degree YOU left the University. II has become
nv pleasing office TO receive You on this return 10
youi honored alma Mater, and 10 welcome you
within her penetralia in her name. Proud are
we that you are OF her alumni And may point
with pride 10 the puncluality in your duties as a
student, and your fidelity and diligence as Inc
guarantees OF the subsequent events OF your NE.
Between your departure and relurn-oetween inc
Yesterday when you left US, and this Gay wheh
you revisit us-a generation has passed away
The period which has thus elapsed IS unparailei'
ed in The history of mankind, in improvements IN
the arts OF peace and war, aud in all that leads 10
The advancement OF civilization. President swan
enlarged upon this point. He spoke OF The depar-
lure OF The graduate 10 Tennessee, then n'eie
settlement, but now wealthy and prosperous
Slate, oulsripping the Carolina, whence she
sprung, in the race oi advancement. he spose u
the success of the institution. lie spoke OF Inc
vacancies which death had made in lis ranks OF
co laborers who, though absent, he could sun pc
lieve in Imagination were here In oenai u lne
citizens OF your native State-in oehah oi 5ou'
oracle OF Chapel Hill-in behalf OF your oio d.
sociales and younger brothers, we greer you' s"'
with hearty welcome.
The President OF The United States in response
said he could mol adequately express The CRATE
mi acknowledgements which were due LOT Inc
lal,erine reception which had been rendered hiin,
on his return 10 the University, after The lapse OF
so MANY years. Tweniy-nine yeais had passea
since he was here, vel he recognized as ne came
no number OF PARTICULAR objects, which we're SUI
me same. In these halls he had spentlhree years
ii his life; and 10 The acquisitions here received,
he mainly attributed whatever vi success had al
tended the aburs OF his ubsequeni life. II was
melancholy reflection that many OF his old as
sociales were gathered into the tomb; and that
we could meet Them here no more; bui some ol
his early friends still survived, and he expected
they would be here. He expected several in The
pleasure he should meet lheml In the vicissi-
iudes OF lite they had been long divided, and their
ciieren, pursuits had widened The separation
Still he regarded them as brothers, and should
meet them as such. But, sir, Of the faculty oi
lha, day. sou have only one professor lett
Among he missing is DR.. Caldwell, our Presi-
dent, who was not only grea, man, but good
man-nol only possessed OF those high qualities
so important 10 The discipline OF impeluous and
,hougnless youth; but qualities which would
have distinguished him in the battlefield, had he
selected military or political HE, or as slales.
man. His lame and his memory, TO all those
who knew him as | knew him, can never grow
dim. Ii is but natural that should wish the con-
linued success OF in institution TO which have
so MANY causes OF attachment. During my short
soiourn among you, shall not only be gralfed
10 greet again my old associates, but all The tras-
tees the faculty, and the students, individually -
II is gratifying, sir, that in the loss oil The able
Caldwell, you have been appointed his successor.
Ii is position of honor and importance, which,
in your own hands, must prosper and of The use
tulness OF which. under your direction, you have
moi the foil estimate. The President concluded
by returning 10 The Chief oi the University and
lis organ, in lis behalf, his most cordial and
grateful assurances. [Applause-Music, Hail
Columbia.
Governor Swain in a fatering but well de-
served speech, next addressed the Hon. John 4.
Mascn, Secretary OF The Navy, as graduate OF
Inc University. The alumni had long cherished
,hs expectation OF his presence as The organ Of
their annual address, a desire which 10 This time
had been frustrated from the incessant official du-
lies of their honoed brother, in his relations with
The Federal Government. The day of is fulfil.
menl was now al hand, and the long cherished
anticipation was 10 be realized. Alter remaIking
upvm the growing Presr"riiy Ut Tho INSTITUTION.
iby YEARS ts aso and The and eoaF
ed men of lis alumni, including the TWO dis
linsuished peIsonases before him, Governor
Swain extended The cordial hand OF fellowship
and OF welcome 10 Judge Mason, and expressed
The high pleasure which his arrival had given ~
The citizens generally Of the State, Qor though ne
were Virsinian, he was rlai mod 90 sun OF me
u.:~..sI.y,J and especially The qualification in-
parted 10 the alumni and all connected with the
institution.
Judge Mason, replied, that he stood powerless
al this unexpected and grateful welcome by the
alumni Of the university. As had been said he
was native oil Virginia; but though she, the
proud mother OF her children, were the land Of his
birth, though he loved every breeze OF her bills
and every blade Of grass that grew in her valleys
the seven years OF his youth which he had passed
in The classic halls Of Chapel Hill, were so EN-
craven upon his heart, tina, in all his subsequent
lite he had ever felt that so long as ne had not els
honured her teachings and her examples, ne shonlt
be satisfied. Though the yeaIs Of his absence,
and The anxielies allendan, upon responsibilities
10 The public, and amid all the cares OF private lille
there had been prominent monion 10 him, il
the reflection that while his conduc, should be ex
empt from aushl that would cast dishcnor upor
this institution, one of The surest securities 10 a
well dcvoled life would be acquired and retained
With some observations on the continued pros
pefy of the university, Judge Mason returned Ie
The question OF The long standing engagements be
tween himself and the alumni oil the University
in he delivery Of their annual address, and the
nleasing circumstances attendant upon this visit
alter the lapse of several years ofexpeclation. du
ring which his unin,ermed official duties had de
barred him The time required for The Journey
Judge Mason concluded BY saying thai he wa
grateful for The happy circumstances oy which
his reunion was surrounded, grateful Tor The in
v;,a,ion 10 he here ald for the fallering manner
| in which i, lad beer conveyed. Applause.l
The music struck up a national air, duiin.
| which the assembIaee in The chapel was dlssolv
ed-when, the baud coming down, the Presiden
| ard company were escorted back TO their guar
| lers al The hotel.
After supper, the whole company attended
again in the chapel, on The occasion OF sermon
To The students, by the Right Rev Bishop Ives
from Proverbs, Oh. xiii, v. 26-"Son, give me
thy heart" The discourse was solemn, and I'M
| pressive, and in every sense well adapted TO "a
Wing caution 10 the young men, against an inor
dinale love OF money, an inoIdinate thirst aIlc
politics, and IN unlnanly propensity Tor sensua
enjoy mems This brings us 10 the end OF The
ceremonies Of The evening OF The Presidents re-
turn 10 Chapel Hill, after an absence Of twenty
nine years.
SECOND DAY 1T CHAPEL HILL.
"Gardes la toy."
Fine and sparkling summers morning-hrs
day OF June. During the forenoon, the President
Secretary OF The Navy, Professor Maury, and
Others oi The company from Washington, also
Gov. Branch, Gov. Morehead, Gov. Graham,
and others Of The distinguished citizens Of the
Slare. amended the lessons OF The senior class on
The subjects OF International and constitutional
law: aiier which The visilers were conducted 10
The library, which includes The hall of The Dia-