Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1851-09-27
FROM A NEW YORK vIsITER AT BOSTON.
BosroN, sEprEMRER ls, 1851.

ment TO the Union as it is, and will support the
Constitution as it is, to the bats end. AT Dor
chester, where the PRESIDENT left the cars. large
concourse of people collected, on horseback, in
carriages and on foot, and gave him hearty greet
ing. Hon. MARSHALL p. WILDER welcomed the
President in behalf Of the ancient town Of Dorcles
ter and in behalf of the county of Norfolk, /" the
land of the Adamses." In his brief and neat re-
ply the PRESIDENT returned his thanks for the COR
dial reception extended to him, and expressed his
happiness at meeting the citizens OF Dorchester in
view of those heights on which their fathers fought
and helped to establish Constitution, which he
had no doubt they their sons, were at this day pre-
pared to maintain and defend"
The PaxsIpENr, accompanied by Gen. WILSON,
President OF the Massachusetts Senate, and two Of
|lhe aids Of Gov. BoUTwELL, were here seated in a
carriage, followed by the Members of the Cabinet
in another carriage, and, accompanied by the State
Committee and the City Committee of Boston, they
proceeded under military escort to the line Of Dor
chester, where they were met and received by the
municipal authorities Of the city of Roxbury. The
Mayor of Roxbury, Hon. SAMUEL WALKER, well
coined the President in brief appropriate address,
to which the PRESIDENT responded in his usual
happy style. Cheers, firing of guns, and ringing
of bells were the greetings of the people Of Rox-
bury, who contributed cavalcade of some three
hundred to swell the retinue, which now moved
forward to Boston.
| About twelve o'clock the procession reached the
Boston line, where they were met by the Mayor
and Common Council, and Mayor BIoELow vel
coined the President to the homes and the hearts
of the people Of Boston in a happy and wel-turned
address. He remarked that the citizens of Boston
now crowd her gates TO receive with honor and re-
spec the Chief Magistrate Of the Republic and they
felt it to be happy omen that this service per-
formed on the same spot where their fathers ga
thered to hail the coming of WASHINGTON in the
first year OF his Presidency. 1t was alsoga pleas
ing coincidence that this day was the anniversary
of the completion of the Constitution of the United
States. 1t also the anniversary of the FIRST set
tlement of Boston These condolences naturally
turn our thoughts to the past and we are reminded
that when the first President visited Boston there
were but eighteen thousand inhabitants to greet his
coming. On this occasion there are hundred and
forty thousand citizens of this metropolis eager to
do honor to the President Of the Republic.
In the PRESIDENTS felictous reply to the Mayor,
he alluded to the contrast between the present oc-
casion and Gen. WAsHINeToN's first visit TO Bos-
ton, when he came, not to receive the congratula-
tons of free and prosperous people, but to defend
them from oppression and give them freedom and
happiness. II he remembered the history Of that
occasion rightly, Gen. Washington, spurred on by
the news Of the conflict at Bunker Hill, travelled
4 from Phiiadeiphia 70 Boston in efeUs Days; and
the good people of Watertown, on his arrival, ga
thered together and congratulated him on the speed
with which he had accomplished the journey.
Now the same journey is accomplished, even as a
matter of pleasure, in about many hours as tthen
took days. This great change has been wrought
out, said the President, by the intelligence, energy,
and enterprise of your people, which have enabled
Boston to stretch out her Briarean arms to the capi
tai Of my own State, and even to lay the capital Of
the Canadas under contribution. The reception
which he had every where met since he entered
1.-The lines of the State had left him no room to doubt
that the Constitution which was first administered
lbyNW ashingtOn would be maintained and defended
to the last BY the people Of Massachusetts.
In my note of yesterday mentioned the arrival
of the Presidential party at the Revere House, in
Boston. AT about half past three P. M. they were
escorted to the State House, where the President
was welcomed by Governor boutwell, in the name
of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The ce-
lremonies and addresses on this occasion were of
the highest interest. Presumng the Integencer
will prefer to publish the addresses somewhat in
full, forbear to attempt an epitome of them.
find them pretty fairly reported in the Boston pa
lpers, though of course in spirit andanguage falling
somewhat short of the originals. The addresses
were by Governor boutwell,, President FILLMORE,
Hon. DANIEL WEBSTER, and the Hon. Secretaries
STUART and CONRAD. They were all marked with
great and ready ability, highly eloquent, and replete
with the warmest patriotic sentiment The pre-
sence of Mr.. WEBSTER was unexpected, it having
been announced the day before that the state Of his
health would not permit him to be present. But,
being seen by the audience which crowded the Re-
presenta,ves chamber and galleries, he was en,hu-
siasticaly called out, and spoke with thrilling ef-
feet being often interrupted with bursts of applause
from the large assembly. cannot forbear remark.
ing also that some parts of Mr.. STUART's address
exhibited the highest order of eloquence. 1t was
Exceedingly gratifying to observe, during the deive-
Try OF these five eloquent speeches, that the utter
ance Of every high patriotic sentiment, Of attach
ment to the Union, the maintenance of the Consti-
tuition, and obedience to the laws of the land was
received by the audience with the stronges. marks
of satisfaction and applause.
Before the ceremonies at the State House were
closed the day was far spent, and division OF
Massachusetts troops was waiting on the Common
to be reviewed by the President. The scene was
therefore changed to that beautiful enclosure, long
the pride Of Boston and the admiration of all stran-
gers who behold it. The fountain shooting up from
the centre Of the little pond was in full and beauti-
ful play gay coors and national flags float
ing on every side; the mammoth white tent erected
lfor the Jubilee dinner cleaned pleasantly through
the forest Of green shade trees; the troops in ee-
lrant uniform and FURNISHED arms were drawn up in
lime entirely across the bottom oil the Common; and
mot less than fifty thousand people crowned the
rising ground above to witness the scene. Present.
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