The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-06-12

on entering tue borders of his native State the PRESIDENT
their wishes and that he would have pleasure in being ac-
companed by the chairman and those with whom he was
associated, on his journey TO the University =, :.
On saturday evening, the President arrived IN TINS cty
where he was welcomed by the ntendant William Dallas
Haywood esq, and received by all the people with the
liveiest demonstrations OF respect On arriving at Col
arboronghs hotel, he was addressed as follows, by
Professor William NJ Green on the part OF the unyer
sty OF the State.
MIR. President Your s'Alma Mater sends You her af-
iectonae greetings and has selected for that purpose
who takes pleasure in saung YOU not only as Chief Ma
remembers well the aithulness OF your college she
has watched with parental PRIDE the successive steps by
which you have risen from her scholastic orms" to the
executive chair Of your country, and with becoming feel
ing she acknowledges the tribute of this unsolicited return
the domestic roof As a relief from the pressing
state you fly not to the festive watering place, or the
crowded city, where the accamaons OF the multitude
would awaityou but with fal love you that
tired spot which witnessed the successive struggles OF your
young ambition andto that institution which was pleased
you with her highest honors. cordial welcome
awaits you amid her classic halls and time honored
Many changes have passed the place SINCE twenty
years ago. you babe adeu peaceful shades The
noble oaks spread their broad shadows the
walks which you Were won't to tread; the same fountains
pour forth their heaful streams and the same bracing
atmosphere nvigoraies the frame of the youthful students
but OF those honoed instructors at whose feet you sat pa
en and attentive learner, not remains hail the
of him who prompt TO bow TO their authority
and torespect their feelings.
the spot where day and night for forty years. he oed for
the good of the youth insed TO his With him also
have large number OF the youthful hearts that
MAN, who will rejoice 10 meet you that soil sacred to
early friendships and will grasp your hand again with all
the warmth of undiminshed affection.
Ofour beloved classmates few ear will be permitted to
mnge their greetings and "reminiscences with yours
Though death has but thrice broken in upon number
the vicssudes of fortune have the remainder
from Rhode Island TO Florida.
But from these saddening reeolections we turn with
pleasure ielicate you, and other native son OF
North Carolina, the growing prosperity of our Univer
sity 1t may not perhaps become me sound her praise
but having SAT- in her halls as learner and now shar
ing of instruction, ample opportunity has been
nane weakness TO stability and usefulness enjoyed by
few of institutions, and which time des-
tined Another able head and kind heart pre-
sides her interests and directs her energies With an
endowment unncumbered, and all-suicent for present
wants. she daily cheeed by seeing her stepping into
the highest places to which their country can call them
and repayng by their ability and aithlulness, her labor
and pray their future usefulness Among those
she proudly eckons you and holds to successive classes
diligence, and your ready submission to her laws That
wise Providence may direct all your abors to the good Of
beloved country and your retirement from public lille
may be cheered by an approving conscience VIII be her
constant prayer
Permit me- more, for myself and those young gen
temen associated with me, you that cordial
welcome awaits you at Chapel Hill
The President replied that it afforded him common
pleasure him that occasion That pleasure was
greatly enhanced from the fact that he recognised IN the
person of Professor Green esteemed classnae and per-
sonal friend with whom he was long and intimately asso
cated. He said that he anticipated much pleasure In re-
visiting after long absence, the scenes OF their youth
How many interesting "reminiscences would be brought up
fresh to t6er memory. The fact, which had been SO al
iectngly alluded that of their own class and many
others endeared by OF intimate association in their col
egate course had gone down to the grave was indeed
melancholy majority OF their own class still sur
vived, and he hoped of them the inter-
esting occasion OF his present visit
you, sir said the President and to the author
and students of the college, whose you are, my
sincere thanks for the kind in which you have been
pleased express their sentiments and feelings on my APP
proach the University. He ayaed himself OF the occa-
sion say that was source OF high qualification to him
that he had been received by his ielowcitzens every
where journey, he entered the borders OF his
nnye n,I ana and rHe S TO his teoe
If yniR HALE, he
for this demonstration Of their respect During the semi,
annual vacations the University, he had often visited
day, n,any objects that were stii familiar to him.
Ae said he would take great pleasure in accompanying
Professor Green and the young gentlemen OF the college
who constituted the con,ittee, to Chapel Hill, at such
time might be indicated by them. -
On Monday morning the President and suite, accompa-
MED BY the University committee consisting OF Professor
Green, William M Howerson, William H Manly, Rob-
ert HWnborne and John Pool took their departure for
Chapel Hill; al which place. we learn, they arrived about
O'Clock, p. Soon alter their arrival the President
and the Secretary of the Navy conducted by the
committee OF reception to the college chapel, where the
President addressed as follows by the Hon. d. l..
Swain, the president of the University:
Mr. PRrslpENr; Nearly the period which marks gener-
alton in history has elapsed since departure from this
your class, welcome the friends of the college,
now my duty to welcome you That high distinctionthe
evidence of diligence and success in the pursuit of know
edge, of rarely paraleled puncuay and fidelity in the
discharge Of al the duties of collegiate liestands
have said that the interval between your departure and
retum-between your yesterday and today-cum presses
generation. And that generation has It its parallel in
history What miracle and arms, in all that
improve and emaelish human existence has it not pro.
duced The population of country has than
wealth has increased ve-od. Your adopted
Stae-the faires portion OF which was then the hunting
ground of trbeshas than shared in the food
tide of wealth and population and Tennessee occu-
pies the comparative pe,eminencc in the concderacy
which North Carolina then held. make this admission as
North Carolinan without notifications and almost with
regret alude to the fact, from the apprehension that
your hopes OF the success and Improvement of your Alma
Mater may have excited nticipatons be realized
perhaps not warranted by just appreciation of the nf
which control our destiny must not be understood
however, as inmatng that either the State University
has remained stationary during the long period Of nearly
thirty years On the contrary entertain the opinion that
the progress OF BOTH though not rapid has been regular
and collegiate studies has been greatly extended and i'm
proved Additional maeri of education has been accu-
muated additional instructors provided and there is be-
eved to be no dmnuton of the zeal ability with which
instruction was impaired and discipline maintained.
With reference to the literary society of which you were
active and jealous member and which is still object
press the hope that when the penetraa you will
find the fire blazing upon the altar with vesa purity and
brghtness that pure priests minister in the temple, and
true votaries kncel at the shrnes.
But, Mr.. President | forbear You stand in the mids,
OF scenes which speak 10 the and the heart; with
power compared with which, the intonaons of my voice
fall ieeby upon the The companions friends of
other days are around you and the deadare they
only in imagnatonl The great man who stamped his
image upon you, upon others in early life whose re-
mains at the expiration of hall century from the day he
rst stood at our head, we have just removed their final
resting paces he absent spirit on an occasion like
THIS Is ne no witness OF the success of his children in
attainment OF noble ends by noble means?
May not be permitted them in behalf of the present
and the asentof the living and the dead-in behalf of the
citizens OF your native Staen behalf of the good peone
of the county OF Orange and village of Chapel HILL ms the
immediate representative of your Alma Mater and these
younger brethren, welcome you the scenes Of
your earliest the precursors OF your subsequent trumphs