Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1851-11-21
Father Mathews VaIedictory.

lowing Is Ills NdiculCtOTl
TO THE CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Dearly BeIoUed Friends My mission
amongst you closes to-day. / cannot take
my final departure from the shores OF your /
great and prosperous country, without pub
licly recording my deep and grateful ap-
probation of the generous sympathy, the
delicate attention, and the unremltung
kindness which | have experienced in
every section of this vast Union. The
noble reception which you have spontane-
ouslv rendered TO 4 stranger, known mere
" as an humble missionary In the cause oil
moral reform, proves the devotion of your
neoDIe to the interest of humanity, how
ever feeblv championed, and has endeared
America and her people 10 me by thou
sand ties too sacred for utterance. Though
the renewed attacks of painful and IN
sidious malady, have rendered 1t lmpossI-
bic that could without imminent danger
to nv liie,) make those public exertlons
which were never spared by me in the
DAYS of my health and of my ylgor, | yet
thank Heaven, have been instrumental IN
adding TO the ranks of temperance over
600, 900 disciples in America. | have
been much cheered during the past week.
by the receipt of letters from all parts OF
the States, bearing unimpeachable testlmo-
ny 10 the strict fidelity with which this
voluntary obligation is observed. | need
scarcely add that virtue, aud the duties
which religion inculcates, together with
Deace. plenty, domestic comfort, health
and happiness, have everywhere followed
in its tram.
| cannot omit this opportunity oi bear
ing nv grateful testimony TO the generous
and valuable cooperation which have re-
ceiyed, in the prosecution of nay mission,
from the public press Of America. What
ever NAV be the party or sectional differ
euces that separate those influential expos
irors of public opinion, all recognized, in
the simple principle which enunciated, a
common ground of fraternal union and
acting in that Christian spirit have, with
scarcely an exception, ever freely rendered
their valuable support and advocacy to the
cause of temperance, emphatlcally the
cause of virtue, patriotism and morality.
If the afectionate sympathy and kindness
Of the American people have at all times
been generously extended to me during my
TOUR, how much more intense has this no.
bile feeling become as the period approached
for my departure. How can | find Ian
cuage to thank the generous, the high
eonied, the noble Henry Clay-my disin-
terested adyocate-my dearly cherished
friend , How can | express the measure
of nv obligation TO the benevolent Will
liam Corcoran, of Washington to the
nnblic spirited and philanthropic Henry
GrinneU to your merchant princes, E.
K Collins and Robert Kermit! to the
amiable and gifted archbishop of New
York, whose delicate and unremlttlng at
,ention will never be forgotten by his hon
ored Cuest? to the host of kind friends III
RaI,imore. Philadelphia, Boston, Albany,
New Orleans, St. Louis, Cincinnati, and
,hrouohout the Union, who have respond
cd to Mr.. Claws appeal, and in their fare
we'll presents have furnished memorial
of gratitude and generosity too highly ap-
nreciated bv the object of their sympathy
md solicimde-too deeply engraven on
his heart to be acknowledged in the hack
MOD nhrascs sanctioned by conventional
usage.
There are emotions of gratitude too in
,enze for language to convey; were 1t
otherwise. gladly would | attempt TO give
oYnresson to my profound thanks to my
yifled and amiable country woman, Miss
Catharine Hayes. Never will forget the
sympathy felt by that noble minded lady,
or the spontaneous generosity $50 charac-
,eristic of her Irish heart which prompted
her recent grateful and substantial comPll-
mont Never will this noble act be for
gotten by Father Mathew, and when his
ear hIv pilgrimage is over, when his stew
,,dsbin ceases, and he is called to state
of fntnre existence, where even the enven-
omed shaft of the slanderer cannot reach,
long NAV her honored name be pronounced
with gratitude and respect by the sons and
dauqhters of that beauteous isle which she
loves 50 well. To my own beloved conn-
trymen | most affcctionately tender ie"
words of parting advice. You have, my
dearly beloved friends, relinquished the
land of your birth, endeared to you by
thousand fond "reminiscences, to seek on
these distant shores that remuneration lor
industry and toll too often denied you at
home. You are presented here with a
boundcss field Of profitable employment
and every inducement to Perseverlng IN,
dustry. You are received and welcomed
into the great American family with ieei-
ings of sympathy, kindness and friendship.
After a few years. you become citizens
of this great republic, whose vast terrltorl-
al extent abounds in all the materials OF
mineral agriculture and commercial wealth;
The avenues to honor and fame are literally