The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-09-20
He was greeted with great cheering by the an-
dience, and spoke as followsi

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"6IAY IT PLEASE YoUa ExcELLEEcY This ocoa-
sion is not mine Its honors and its duties are not
due TO or from me The State, the great State, the
old State. the old, patriotic Bunker Hill and Fan
euil Hall State of Massachusetts, has invited the
| President ofthe United States within her borders.
| 10 your honored person, and to your honored Of
! hcc, may 1t please your excellency, this visit is
paid. Sir, | am good deal touched with the
kind the too kind reception, which you have given
| us.
GAS have said, sir, the occasion belongs to the
President, and TO those OF his Cabinet who
strangers. Thank God, | am stranger here.
| [Appause.l | am Of Massachusetts. [hear, heariJ
bone of her bone and flesh of her flesh, [cheersl
and | would rather rejoice in taking part with
you, may II please your excellency, as the Gov.
ernor Of the State, and my fellow citizens who
surround you, in paying honor to the United
States, [cheers. than in acting any part, in de-
manding any part towards myself
| "And, may II please your exceency, wish, in
the first place, to say that from the bottom of my
heart wish entire success to your administration
Of tho great affairs of this State. In whosesoeyer
hands those affairs fall, if they are fairly and i'm
| partially administered, those hands shall have
my hand in their support and maintenance. [Sen-
sationl
"In the next place. wish to say that devoutly
wish that the great interests of the Commonwealth
| may prosper Our interests are various. They
| complex. We have million Of people living on
very small surface, sterile soil. and beneath
| Indictment sky; and yet we are full of happiness,
and all are, say in the country, "well- to- do
in the world and enjoy neighbours fare" [Cheers.l
| Now, that must be owing to wise legislation. IL
must be owing TO great economy and prudence
among the people. 1t must be owing TO a system
| of education. 1t must be owing TO something that
is not in the EARTH in the sky, but in the soul
| and heart of man, and woman, and child. IRE
newed cheers.l And these hope will prosper
| al hope, too, that every concern Of this great
| Commonwealth under your administration and
those OF your successors, may prosper, and, above
| all, aboce all, sentiment can never repress, and
hardly postpone, my ardent prayer Is. that this
whole country, bound together as il ia by ties Of
interest of affinity, of association, may continue
to be bound together forever until that thing shall
| happen which know will never happen, under
Gods blessing, until the Constitution Of the coun
| try shall prove curse to it. prolonged applause
| Never! Neperl NEVER!
| ''Why, what is il that supports all these inter-
| ests? What is III Here is mass OF commerce.
Who protects it? Here ia vast interest in manu-
| features What protects it? Here is a coasting
trade running from Newburyport round to Cali
| fornia. Who protects it? What laws! What
| government? In short wherever we turn our eyes,
we see that this State is not only an agricultural
State but a commercial State, manufacturing
| State State mixed up with all the interests that
belong to society, and, beyond all hese visible and
| demonstrable interests, and vast many Yankee
notions besides, we live under the laws OF the Cen
| eral Government, and should perish if those laws
| were abrogated. [Applause.l
| 'sSir, you have alluded to the period in which
have passed some part OF my life In the admins,
tration OF the affairs of the country. The years of
| human life wear away cir j shall perform such
services for such other length of time But,
| with every increasing year, and day, and hour,
! the more | contemplate the history Of this country,
the great destiny of this country, the more see it
and contemplate it as stretching from sea to sea,
and from the rivers to the ends OF the earth, the
| more see 1t exhibit the American genius at home
and abroad the more see what exhibitions OF skill
have astonshed Europe in this our day, and in this
! our summer, [sensatiun,l the more am sdrpriced
and gratlfed. Why, sir, the btterest, the ablest,
the most anti American press in all Europe, within
ate hat Gin in n
| in every thing that is for human improvement ex
hibited at the Worlds Fair, the United States go
SO far ahead OF everybody else as to leave nobody
! else in sight II s like the position OF Jove
among the gods Jove is first and there is
cond And in another paper influentialin the coun-
ellis of Great Britain, the editor says "the time
| is coming Che migh almost have said, and now isl
| when America shall command the ocean, and both
| oceans ard all oceans.' This results partly from
the sksof individuals, partly from the untiring
| ingenuity of the people, and partly from those
great events which have given us the ocean OF one
world side, and the ocean OF the other world
on the other. They appear to have filled the minds
of the people with establishment. Audit brought to
my mind story told ola gentleman not now living
II was related TO MIR. John Lowell, about thirty
years ago. Returning to Europe after the peace
of 1915, the gentleman to whom have referred was
sp oxen 10 by some Of the great personages of Eu
rope, who, alludng to the naval power OF the Uni
ted States said that he hoped the European powers
would now be permitted to traverse the ocean quiz
city; and the response was, yes, with our leaven
Applause
s'May it please your exceency, l hope that all
health happiness, and prosperity, will attend you
hencoforward through life" Enthusiastic cheers.]
Hon. e. T. Russell then presented to the Governor
Mr.. STUART, the Secretary of the Interior. He
was warmly received, and made the following
marks
"MAY 1T PLEASE YoUR ExcELLENcY: The very
complimentary terms in which you have been
pleased to aude to my friend on my left and my
tn and -nrh NJ q nd
thanks. | tender to you, sir, my most cordial &C
acknowledgements for the welcome you have given
US. This sir, is the first time that my foot has
rested upon the soil of New England. Hear, hear.
But trust, sir, it will not be the last [Applause.
az have seen, sir, many things to admire, and
which have afforded me instruction. have seen
the network of railroads to which you have
alluded, which are now penetrating to the remoest
parts of our country. j have seen to day, sir, as
traversed your territory, the hardy yeomanry Of
this country And here, sir, permit me to say
that, in all my travels throughout this broad Con-
lederacy, have never yet seen the same evidences
of intelligence, of prosperity, of industry, and of
every thing that renders the condition of man de
lightful in this life. Applause have seen, sir,
bands of children, who seemed to me to line the
way for miles, and who had come from your gl)
rious common schools to tender their welcome to
the President of the United States [Cheersl |
felt sir that it well that they ahould be there.
felt that they would learn the lessons of national
patriotism and have them deeply implanted in their
hearts Renewed cheers] felt that the very
fact that they looked upon, not the chief magis-
trate of Massachusetts, but upon the Chief MIagis-
trate of this broad Confederacy extending almost
over all this broad continent, would teach them to
raise their eyes above the horizon OF Massachusetts,,
30 as to take in the interest, and the honor and the
| glory of this broad Republic. GCheers
| "Sir, my friend said to here to-day that this
was not day devoted to him, that it was devoted
to the strangers. Sir if he intended to allude to
me stranger, l deny the application of the
term. Applause Sir, it is true never before
etood upon the soil of Massachusetts, But, sir,
| can Massachusetts be stranger to Virginia? En-
thusiastic applause.l No, sir. feel that
! Virginian, a of that glorious old Common
wealth which stood side by side with Massachu-
sets in the darkest hour of the Revolution, am
no stranger within her borders. loud cheers.1
''Sir, when saw these evidences Of your pros
perity and of your advancement in every thing that
promotes national happiness, felt not one senti-
ment of envy. No, sir. felt that while all these
things belonged to Massachusetts,, they belonged
also to the Union; they belonged also to me [Sen
sation.l Sir, ehal go back to Virginia, as | said
before, instructed. ! will be able to teach my
Grated old mother some few lessons of the modern
mode of growing into DrOsDeritV tina