The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-04-20
GEN. FoorE's SPEECH.


doubtless as familiar as any who have been invited
10 address you. The task which | propose to N.Y.
t eel IS one far simpler and enter upon its per
Torrance BY inviting you, individually and coec
uey, 10 participate freely and with true gladness
VI squ In that rich banquet of generous sentiment
Wnch the occasion itself is well calculated to suggest
n a cannot be without beneficial influence, both
III Jul own country and in foreign lands that so many
.ave come hIlher as now behold before me, to pro-
ea me satisfaction which they derive from octurren
rss III he va world intelligence of which has but just
~ vi .he most suspicious era to the rational hopes
VI man winch has yet been known since man himself
mas paced upon the earth. When hgh-spireI
mhls'er IN Paris the other day. in the midst of much
mat was of nature to perplex and paralyze anv
Wsahary man--in view of the melancholy fragments
y. ,nd! magnificent throne 10 which he stood officially
sol vi ana which many had believed to be far
pe broken to pieces by anything less potent than
,nd d "lah OF DIVINITY self-with amagnanmous prompt-
bod Oh which his country may well be proud, stepped
FanSo ,otwafd, and welcomed the young republic of
,h W ine family OF natIons,-lt said that The vener
s;ot resident OF the provisional government cordially
wru, MS hand, exclaming with all the aAeciionate
Fr"n' o. true French heart: Thus does republican
tans SHAKE hands ,o,M republican America" What
nn could be more eloqueny depictive of the new
emu" emu eaeang ties which had suddenly sprung into exist,
vep, veween the people OF liberated France and the
,ud ihilons OF treemen who dwell in all the plen-
orsa, Oh social and political happiness between the
seas which water the eastern and western shores OF
eco vas, continent! In the true spirit of fratena af
teuon DO we receive this kindly greeting from beyond
,e 'olhng ocean Already has the Executive of the ma
feel announced to republican France the Joy which we
nh peholdIng The emancipation of her people, and the
n M progress which she making in the establishment
s sse Institutions OF government Already has Con-
ness SPOKEN ,he language of congratulaton and kind
heaay have the sovereign people Of the republic
ioIth Their paans Of rejoicing over the general
,hl OF tyranny IN the Old World And I feel an
mn, 10 declare that there is not one in this vast
bh. whose sympathies not deeply enkinded in
., rance and Frenchmen who would not feel
he i N ms own estimation by the entertainment of
ior & uouot as TO the capacity of this noble people
tuons r and maintenance of republican ns,i-
ia., cen, france of 1s4s is not the France OF the
which the ana without specifying all the advances
free prncples people have made in the knowledge of
last fo ana IN me means of preserving them in the
stances mo- LONGER U dwelling upon the unfayoable crcum
when sna,nnd now apparent, which surrounded them
wien engaged on two former occasions in ;r. ,"eu'
wnment-we must all feel and know ,ha, S' mia ex
been the extraordinary course Of e mar such has
Europe, within the last mon,hs thai ian ana IN
oeatey we survey the which has hsen more ae
slore u.s. and the more rgidy we scrunise ~ ou,
o actors, the more confident does our .onouc'
ZONE that the glorious work which has been ~ % pc
Sn cannot possibly fail Of complete accomplishment S Se
e age OF yrants and slavery is rapidly draw,a " q,
and that the happy period to be sgnalzed hH 70
UNIVERSAL emancipation of from the letters Of e e