Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-07-18
From tho Daily True American.


ted at zabethown with great enthusiasm. 1t having been
announced that Commodore Stockton had accepted an invi
tation deliver oraon the community manifested much
anxiety the first public effort of our new senator
He arrived o'clock and hailed by the spontaneous
shout Of the assembled crowd Shortly afterwards he was
formally received solder-like by fine military
of the brigade At IL o'clock the galleries
and sides the large Presbyterian church were crowded
with surprising beauty The bell sounded and the process
son under the direction of Gen. Brown, entered and
pied the stage and body of the building After an anthem
upon organ, prayer by Rev Dr. Magee, Hail Column
ba by band Bedoes island, and the reading of
the Declaration independence by Captain Pegrm the
ator introduced and received with applause He
spoke without notes. and manfestly very much mpromptu
occupied than hour. and listened to with
deep interest by the vast assembge who constantly greet
ed his patriotic and eloquent sentiments with strong tokens
of appreciation.
The following sketch address is perfect posi-
ble and in relation his Union sentiments, almost rerba
tam ct Hteratim
The Address.
Fellow- Citizens For the honor you have done
me, tender you my most cordial thanks. If could
have foreseen the imposing ceremonies OF this NOR
ming, should have thought it wise and prudent,
had time permitted, to have prepared written ad-
dress for this occasion. AS it is all that is left to
me, is to do the best can, and to wish that You may
meet with disappointment to-day: loE have
known me- more or less, from rather life of action
than of words That have not been educated
speech maker; that am orator that have not
learned the art of seductive eloquence. come here
for oratorical display or effect | come to address
you to-day because you have invited me to do and
because was ambitious of the honor of being intro
duced to you 1t was but few days since that
received your invitation and willing that
my reputation public speaker should suffer than
that should to be Indifferent to your kindness.
But fellow citizens, bring with that which will,
perhaps, my purpose on this occasion better
than the highest order of eloquence or the most elab
crate preparation. / bring with me heart full of
devotion to my country and her institutions. bring
with me habtual veneraton for the memory of
all our distinguished patriots who have contributed
largely to the glory of their country and the hap
piness of mankind-especially for those good and
fearless men, who, appealing to God for the purity
of their intentions declared the Colonies free and
independent of British rule and those great and in
comparable statesmen who framed the Constitution
of tie United States, and bound the States in one
Union, by the adamantine chain constitutional Law.
On July 4th, 1776, the Declaration of Indepen-
derce was signed by our patriotic forefathers and
delivered into the hands of the people, for the bene
fit IF themselves and their posterity to the remotest
generation and, Mr.. Adams predicted the
nwrsary of that day has been since celebrated
ybonfres firing of cannon public orations, and all
otler manifestations of nations triumph and
tim's joy.
Fellow citizens, that small thing done in
ne 1t was mighty work done in the broad light of
} da1. 1t small candle hid under a bushel 1t
was great fire built the top of the mountain, to
show the way that the great Ang lo-Amerlcan faml
ly we're taking to God and Liberty. 1t has been bur-
ming brighter and brighter, till it has illumned this
continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans
ana hope it will burn and will continue to burn
brighter and brighter, and ascend higher and high
en- until it ightens up the dark caverns of Terra Gel
F1ego and redeems even the Patagonian wanderer
to liberty and civilization.
congratulate you fellow citizens this auspi-
ciCus day, and that permitted once more, to
ofthe Union-under that flag whose gorgeous stripes,
with its mysterious Pturibus Un'm, we were wont,
il our boyish days, to hail with much joy, as it
waved from village liberty poles Yes, that flag
planted on the ramparts of liberty by the immortal
Washington and drenched with the blood of Mercer,
d at Princeton and that liberty pole, raised by our
fathers and consecrated by the prayers of moth
es, have always been in my mind-one and lnsep-
, arabic What wonder that | should be Union
man ! My morning matin, and my evening lullaby
we're tuned to the praises of the Union and have
y lived for the Union, the whole Union: and nothing
q but the Union. can remember nothing before the
Union, and desire to know nothing, and to remem-
- Der nothing after it shall be dissolved. May the
great arbiter of nations-He who guided the adven
urous footsteps ofour pilgrim fathers to these shores
s and who has since watched over the preservation
and glory of the Republic, continue united peo
pie, henceforth and forever.
= Our lot has been cast in pleasant places, but we
l. have fallen upon evil times At the North, fana
r ticism the widest and most ndefensble that ever
il swayed the passions of men, is at work to strike
g down all that is valuable upon earth of human lib
erty in the vain and delusive expectation of recon
structng upon its ruins Utopan system of hea
c bliss and of the equality of the white and blacl
e. races of men, At the south the watch fires of the
g, revolution have been rekndled in the preparation
for the defence of their homes and fresides Groan
" ing under the pressure ofapprehended wrongs, ant
writing under the lash of constant and reiterated
n insults the men of the South preparing for war
d in the hope of redressing their wrongs and avengnl
\ their insults by an appeal to the sword: Ever.
north wind goes southwark, freghed with hbels ant
insults and every southern breeze bears its wing
ID of defiance and revenge Thus two great prin
cples before in the history OF our race recon
:. ciled or appeased but by blood stand in hostile ar
raw to each other Yet there those who say Their
is no danger of confict-no danger to the safety
le the Union With the thunders of secession roarn
t. along the southern coast and the pillows OF insur
:, recton breaking the northern shores-sure pre-
sages of storm-they tell there is no danger t
the ship of Statethat the sky is clear and the
is smooth But, fellow citizens, be not lulled into
ly fatal security by these syren voices. Take heed
- be warned by the roaring thunder and the forke
lightning-that this may be the calm which precede
w the tornado-a smooth and decetful surface on tn
II edge of a cataract.
+ 1t must be admitted on all hands that there
great excitement among people in regard pull
e lie affairs, not unmixed with degree Of appreheI
~ sion respecting the safety of the Union. in the viz
ence of party and sectional strife there to
~ a confusion of ideas in regard to the motives an
- objects which induced our forefathers to seek
- lum on these western shores. and in regard to tt
~ principles which they avowed when they first esta
~ lshed the government, and none the less in r
e aton to the teachings of the Constitution Instea
&c 1toI of fboo hiSfo