Hannibal journal and western union. (Hannibal, Mo.) 1851-1852, 1851-10-02

DtS - hii VI bl~h ttAf " Wv CohaNh%tA-
ton and our glorious Union, and their determin-
AEON to sustain both"
Mfr Filiinose egaiif thanked the Governor for
his kind fecepson and sat down. ~ So
ffon. Daniel Wetbser was then called upon
and spike as follows;
Nh. wEBsTER's SPEECH.
"May It please your Excellency: This occa-
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 BUSKrR
HILL and FANEUIL HAIL State Of Massachu-
sets, has invited the President, Of the United
States within hef borders. To your honored
person and TO your IGNORED Office, may il please
your Excellency, this visit is paid. Sir, am
good deal touched with the kind. the too kind
reception which you have given us. As have
said, sir, the occasion belongs to the president
and TO those Of his Cabinet who are strangers
Thank God | am no stranger here ZAP
Piaase.) 81 am Of Massachusetts,. (Hear;
hear.) Bone Of her bone and flesh Of her heshI
(chocrs,) and would rather rejoice in taking
part with you, may it please your Excellency,
as the Governor OF the State, and nv fellow
citizens. who surround you, irio paying honor TO
the President Of the Erie; States. fsheers
than in acting any part, or in demanding any
part towards myself. And may il please your
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thas, from the bottom of my heart, wish entire
success TO your administration of the great af-
fairs Of this State. In whosoever hands those
afloirs fall if tlfey are fairly andoimpartialy ad-
minisfered, hey shall have MY hand in their
support. (Sensation.) In the next place, may
say, thatf devoutly wish the whole interests of
the Commonwealth may prosper, tOur, interests
are varied-they are complexs We have mil
lion OF people living on very small surface
on a sterll soil, and be1enh an nclenientosky
and yet we ere full Of happiness, and all, as we
say in the country, swell to do in the world,
and enjoyingneigh fare" (Cheers. Now
that must be owing TO wise legislation. II must
be owing to great prudence and economy among
the people. Ii must be owing to a system of ed
ucation. II must be owing to something that is
not in the earth or in the sky, but in the soul
AMI heaa Of man, md woman, and child.
(Cecers.) And these, l hope, will prosper. /
hope, too that every concern Of this great Com
monwealth may prosper under your administra-
ton and those OF your successors; and above all
a sentiment l can never repress and hardly post
pone: my ardent prayer is, that this wholescoun-
try, bound together by interest Of affinity of as
ISOLATION, may continue to be bound forever
until that thing shall happen,5wllich know will
never happen under Gods blessing-until the
NShSlitulAoh VI lit COuhliN slldil prove u curse
to ito prolonged applausc.) Never, never,
Eeverl Why. what IS it that supports these in
terests ? What is it? Here is mass of oom-
merce-who protects it? Its vast interests in
manufactures-who protects it? Here is a
ceasing trade running from Newburyport round
TO CAlifornia-who protects n? What laws
what government? Ia short, whcrccvcr we
turn our eyes we see that this State is
not an agricultural State, hut commercial one
"a manufacturing State, State mixed up with
all the interests Of seciety-a6d beyond all these
visible and demoHstrable interrsts-and vast
many Yankee notions besides. We live under
the laws Of the General Government, andoshould
perish II those laws were abrogated. Gap
plause.) Sir, you have alluded to the period in
which have passed some part, of my life in the
administration Of the affairs Of the country
The years Of human life wear away.
Sir, | shall perform such services dor no
such other lenglhoof time, but with every in
creasing year and day and hour the more con-
template the history of this country, the great
destiny of this country-.he more see Of it |
contemplate it, as stretching from SEA to sea,
and from the rivers to the ends Of the earth.
The more | seeit exhibiting the American ge-
MUS at home and abroad-the more | see what
exhibitions Of skill have astonished Europe in
this oone summer, (sensation) the more / am
surprised and gratiied. Why, sir, the bitterest,
the ablest, the most anti-American press in all
Europe withinoa fortnight has stated that in
everything valuable, in everything that is for
human Improvement, the United States 90 so
far ahead of everybody else, as TO leave no body
else in sight is like the position of J6Ve a
msng the gods Joye is first, AMI there is no
second. And in another paper influential in
lthescounoils of Great Britain, the editor says
| she might almost have said, and the time now
is when America shall command the ocean and
both oceans and allooceans. This results partly
from flte skill of individuals, and partly from
The untiring ingenuity Of the people, and partly
/ from those great events which have given us
| the ocean Of one world on one side, and the
ocean Of the other Syorld on the other. They
appear TO have filled the minds al the people with
establishment; and it brought to my mind a story
told OF gentleman moi noN liviHg-t was re-
lated to Mr.. John Lowell, About 30 years ago,
returning to Europe after the peace of 1915,
the gentleman to Khom | have referred was
spoken to by some one OF the great personages
of Europe who, alluding to the naval power of
the United States, said that he hoped the Eu-
ropean powers would now be permitted to ira
verse the oceans quietly-and the response was,
Eyes, with our leave" (Applause).
May it please your Excelency, hope that
all health. happiness and prosperity will attend
you, henceforward, throughlife. Enthusiastic
Applause). O 10.
Mr.. STEWART s. SPEECH. 90
The following is Mr.. Stewards Speech:
The veryoomplimentsry terms ON which you
have been pleased to allude to my friend on my
left, and myself, seems to demand a word of
response and thanks. tender to you. sir, my
most cordial Acknowledgements for The welcome
YOU havegiven US. This sir, j.. the first time
tina my foot has ever rested on the soil of New
(Applause). i haye'seen many things to adj
mire, and which have afforded me instruction.
| have seen the net work OF railroads to which