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 Wasarsovox, Feb 2n tS6l. GsyrIxMgS;-The timely and appropriate ce,c hration of the snniveFxary of WasAiRgion's birth day, as propose in the invitation whit h yos have 70 kindly extended me, is worthy cf, the occasion and Of she glasioas cause ia which yoa are 50 zealousiy engaged; and employ n mere fIEm of expression. when ] asss1fe yoa how deeply Fe. pet that inc condition of the public htsiaess ' ll n permit me t9 participate patriotic prooc9d Ings. lt IS thrce wcll5el tsfne whea te iRsti tutioas Of our country have been shaken b theis foaniati9u by an agisatioR from which they afe yet tsemuoss and sihratory, to celebrate this day with tecozning cereIHonials-to rrvisw the lexSons of wisl0n which the warning voice of that salnt cd patriot taught IS ito recount and dwell upon the denying and manly virtues which eharie- tesiged his eventfni life; ard to take again upon our lips name around which sos many cherished recotlectiOns cluster, and al the sound cf which more hearts leap with emHioR, than when he stood the delyerer ot bis country from oppression hs brow encircled with the fresh iauEels of victo ry-a name which the great Napoleon with pro phetic forecast observed weGla be fensmbere1 with veneration when his would 5e lost in the vortex of reY0lufionx
 In signalzing day So dear 10 every American. so reple.c with proud TemembEances and interest ing associations interwoyen with the history of the Father of our Country, may we not all uRite n s common invocation tp Heaven that doatae portion of his spirit may rest upon us as people. and animate by all the bright meEnoiFS of the past-the frailon of the present and the promise Of the future. to preserve with unfad3ng lnstre this constellation in the Armament of political hope-this city of refuge for Inc way worn and down-toiden Of other ciInes-this holy gathering place of earth's oppressed and homeless children.
 Through the favor of my fellow citizens, t has been my fortune to have witnessed the severest trial which our institutions have ever expcrIen- eed-to have observed fran conspicuous public station the fise, proreSs. decline and fail, of the most fearful agitation which has threatened the integrity of our confederacy since it's foEmation- to have wihstood with others, its "pitileSs peit- ngs" and to have awsiied with the faith and devotion of eastern idolstry. the beam of promise which has finally betokened it's telIffu5tioB.
 The public mind has buifeted and I hope at least successfully the waves Of the dark and tur- bulent stream which this conflict of elements pro dueed, swollen with the honest errors, blind pre- indices and deptaved passions of half a century, and bearing along with 1t the counterfeit philan- thropy and genuine fanatcIsfn, which, for our humiliation are permitted to disfgure and degrade humanity. The struggle has been naoanentoas and desperate. Times there have been my fellow-cit- i2ens since its commencement, when the spirit of evil seemed to predoninate, and the genius dark ness held his court unmolesied; when madness ruled the hour, when the good fel back trembling and ahaShed. and the bad, like the last and worst of the Cesars prepared to chant their demon notes of triumph over the ruins of disjointed and fal- len eonfederacy. The obligations of law, and the supremacy of the constitutions were alike open ly defied and derided; and the infurated yotaries of dIsunion yied with each other Tn such open, systematic, and wanton violations Of the compact, that, had the questions arisen between foreign states, the aggression would have been held just cause of war throughout the civilized world. If the corrupt and ruinous monarchieS of earth had been commissioned to let loose upon us an evil spirit 10 scourge and distract us for having repu- diated their plous theores of divine right, their office would bave been most successfully accom- pllshed, by casting among us the diScord of anti slavery agitation. But the sentiments of an aEous- cd an indignant people, under the guidance of the same benehcent Being who has sustained and pre- served from the fields Of Lexington to the pre- sent momeut, rolled away the stone from the sep ulchre of a crucihed and entombed constitution, and brought again to light and life the genial spirit in which our confederacy was founded. Wide i spread and terrible as has been the deSolation, like adversity 1t will bring it's uses. It will teach us how delicate IS the framework of our federa- l tive system, and that the sacred rights and best interests of independent sovereign States cannot be invaded with impunity. It will root the tree 0t bDeftf more ufIfy III our SOIL ana Uy afOusing the feelings Of the quet masses will serve to lay the foundations of our freedom more broad and deep in the structure of society; and, above all like epidemicS which never revisit those rho sur vive them, II wlI not again return to curse and afIiict the present generation,
 1 The measures of adjustment paSsedat the last session of Congress were calculated and intended to arrest agitation, and by extending far as prac ticable equal and exact justice 10 all to restore fratemal relations throughout the Confederacy.- Although these measures were not in all respects acceptable to the Southern people, we are asSur- cd that they win stand by them to the letter, so ling as they earned out in truth and spirit by the free States, and they should be required to do so no longer. Upon the North, then, depends the future prospects Of the Union. It's destiny is iu has been the injured and aggrieved parry, nor can 1t, nor ought 1t to be expected, that she will cher lsh the cold remains, of Union in name when all it's constitutional life and yigor have departed Let. then, the North cease her ofsicioas and i'm pertinent interference with the institutions of ber sister States in the South. Let her repeal her acts Nof hostile and aggressive legislation, and provide by stringent laws for aiding the efficient e1eeu- ton of every article of the compact and no dis cordapt notes. save those of the demagogue and the fanatic, will be heard throughout the land We shall then have obeyed the parting injunction of hn wh0se birthday We celebrate. and Heaven will again fasotus with the biessiAgs ef fEaternal peace.
 shall be waTfaIy with you on this occasion in spirit and sympathy, and in prayers Tor the perpe- ta.ty of our gianous Ifuon m the rue spirit of the Consthution, and fesuaIn, vel Ii sincere regard your friend and feliow-citizen-
 D. S. DICKINSON.