Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1849-03-08
From she Matio..al Etislligrnesr.
Interesting CeEemOny.

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Tie Joint Committee appointed BY
Congress to Communicate to General
TAYLOR official information of his cleo
ton to the Presidency, waited on him for
that purpose on Monday last. when Hon.
JEFFERSON DAVIS, Of the Senate, Chair
man of the Joint Committee, addressed
the General as follows: sss..--rs.
S1R: We have been deputised by the
Senate and House of Representative OF
the Congress of the United States eff
cially to inform you that they have, in
the manner provided BY the Constitu-
ton, ascertained that you have been le-
gally and Constitutionally elected to Ell
the Office of President Of the United
States for four years, to commence with
the fourth day Of March. ls49, and to
present to you your certificate of election,
as proclaimed by the ViCe-President of
the United States on the second Wednes-
day of February of the current year.
In conveying to you this evidence of
the high confidence reposed in you by
the people of the United States. We ten
der to you our cordial good wishes, and
earnest hope that you may find in the
Chief Magistracy the honor, the glory,
the happiness which should wait upon
patriotism, and flow from q nation
prosperity.
Many causes. such as difference fpur-
: suit, of circumstances, of education, or OF
| mental characteristic, divide now as they
! have heretofore divided, the people Of
the Unitrd States into political parties
but it is a proud spectacle to see the
conflict of opinion, after having "a
ged with its widest fury through the
course of q canvass, subside into
peace at the returns of an election, and
no other power ever be required to en-
force the result than the power Of that
respect which American citizens feel fol
the laws and institutions under which they
live.
A majority of the Senate of the Uni
ted States are of the political party which
most strove to defeat your election.
accord in political creed with that ma
jority. To select me. under these cir
cumstances, to announce to you your
election to the highest Office in the Uni
ted States, will, l trust, be received as a
token Of the acqu;escence-not reluctant
admission, but respectful aequiescence in
the decisions of the people. l feel, sir
that can offer you assurance that from
them your administration will not encoun
ter factious opposition; that, as far as
difference of opinion will permit, they
will give that sincere support which ou
common interest and constitutional obi
cations might lead you to expect.
The character of your election-th'
general feeling of admiration and graft
tude for your long, arduous. and mos
brilliant military services-al life Of earn
est devotion to your country-your who'll
country-give high hope and expecta
ton in the public mind that, on takint
the chair first held by Washington. ant
4 --l.:-l1 IN sacred to every American heart
you will be able to hush the winds ane
still the waves of sectional strife-tt
pursue the constitution, with all its har
monizing compromises--to promote the
permanent prosperity, and farther illus
trate the honorable fame Of Jur Union.
Substance OF Gen. Taylor.S Reply.
The President elect, in signifying his
acceptance of the Office to which he had
been chosen by the people, avowed emo,
tions of theePFofoundest gratitude. and
declared his distrust of the ability to full