The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-01-24


EXTRAORDINARY AND MINISTER PlESIPorESrIsRY
FROM THE UNITED STATES or AMERICA To CouRr OF
We the Directors Of the Manchester Commercial
ciaon gladly avail ourselves of this opportunity
welcome and congratulation on your arrival in this dis
triet well to give utterance to those feelings Of
country which you worthily represent.
Rejoicing a. we do at all times to honor and to cuti
vae friendly relations wt distinguished
OF foreign States as members of community largely
consuming American produce we feel peculiar gratid-
cation in being permitted to oder the right hand OF fe
owship TO the representative VI country whose inter
ests each succeeding year completely identifies
with those Of Great Britain and anxiousy desire that
anity, rivals only in peaceful progress that the
legislation Of future years bot sides of the Atlantic
may tend that union by gradual develope
ment OF commercial intercourse, untrammeied by
| strictions.
in the enjoyment Of that high position the confidence and
esteem OF fellow countrymen of which your appoint
men 70 your present Office affords fla ering testmo
ny and we have doubt that, you save shores
you wiz have achieved reputation noshing inferior to
that 'f the most distinguished of Ekceencys pre-
decessors For and behalf of the directors Of the Mar
| J. ASPINAIL TURNER. President.
His Excellency tho Hon J. r. then rose and
| when the cheers with which he received had at
length subsided he spoke to the following efcct:-Mr
sources compliment by which am surrounded that if
were address myself to them all separa distinct
yet should fail to give that utterance of the feel
ings OF my heart by which am than oppressed at
TINS moment. To all and each OF them return my
cordial thanks and will endeavor briefly and with the
simplicity that becomes myself and the occasion al
lude to them in the of the few remarks which
may have TO make to YOU In the first place, allow
to return you my most sincere and cordial thanks
the honor you have been pleased to do my country
in bringing into especial notice. and with especial vor
the responsible head of the government of the United
States. (Hear) Whether you look to that excellent
gentleman who now presides over the councils of the
country or to that most excellent gentleman who stands
now in relation towards it Of chief magistrate elect spe
caly return to you my cordial acknowledgements They
4 m of
great purity OF feeling, and great integrity of neart
for both of them-both to their country, to this
country, and to the world. (Appause) Gentlemen,
thank you for the manner in which have received the
toast and for the toast itself it has been given. For
the distinguished notice of myself and my country by
your worthy mayor, who presides upon this OCCASION
also return my cordial Acknowledgements For the notice
taken by the of your Chamber
and Manufactures and equally for the notice taken by
Words would be wanting to express them separately
terms. express my heartfelt gratitude for each
and all those considerations Appause) Nevertheless
circumstances which have been adverted one or both
OF those addresses which appreciate and receive in the
productions Of our country received by you without the
assessment of duties of any consequence if at all and
while is undoubtedly true that there remains portion
OF the productions OF country which is not only
sessed, but is heavily assessed (hear hear) have
complaint to make appeal to introduce suggestion
even to offer, except that what you shall deem wise and
proper will deem wise and proper and that any changes
which be made in the of the arrangements of
legislation the part of our country in which vour
dcstni.s concerned your interests alone in
volyed am sure that answer for them, not only
with sincerity but with certainty Of their being lis.
tened to- and without any hesitation to their
being approved admitted, and acted upon (Iear) But
we also know that there are two sides to every question
and that whatever be the view taken Of that mpor
/ tant question: question which. having been sub
mted ately as has been referred TOY to your great
council Of the nation TO your high impartial court
that tribunal which for ages and ages has been filed with
men of the highest honor and the greatest abilities and
with respect 10 which Imay be allowed to saylorI have
listened 10 and felt it during the little time that have
been in England mysclf-that YOU yourselves in the
boropgh OF Manchester have distinguished yourselves
less by other qualifications than those referred to and
by other attributes OF duty 10 yourselves and respect to
than by sending 10 the parliamentary representation OF
this great place the ablest possible OF your ear
hear) have only to thank you for silent monitor
all which by any one seated where have been oday
could not have escaped notice. mean the union the
other side the Of those two flags which hope may
long continue united together as they at this mo-
ment, in peace and amity-(great applause)-and that
they may be cherished in their present and that
| altered condition. until the end of time. applause
Reference has been made 10 several of the attributes
this great communityas s industry, which has been
CIR Turner) who read the address-its industry which
stranger cannot fail to have heard Of, and which,
during the brief space of few hours that have been
in Manchester today, stranger could fail to wit
with the greatest possible pleasure There is but
one ccumsanee tan that can y any possibility create
hive and yet believe, that while in the ordinary un
derstanding of that term in the little community Of busy
there are none. (Hear and laughter) Industry must
be the parent of virtue of good conduct of wealth and
OF all the comforts and enoyments of Gtespeakng in
human As the OF industry ideness the
parent of vice and has been put forth by OF the poets
na6e misdeeds and bad fcelngs~beginnng with gattony
aud ending with what cannot much be In these
respects, country does not otherwise much than
semble yours We are also an industrious people Per
| haps, no place even in great country-tor great
it is in many respects and aade to IT, not in any other
than except in the magnificent scenery with which
it aDounds-and il would indeed ~be extraordinary il
| there rapid progress had been made in the advance
ment of our population and resources-with the
rivers flowing for two thousand miles togeherwith the
extent OF country rolling hills and daes with pro
ductiveness tat 10 rha has seldom been known in the
history Of man: and which, recently said by or
your writer's the very valley Of the Mississippi itself
produces srrtes of Indian corn sufficient Ia feed the
whole ssai of Adam Nature in the midst of an these
great attributes would blush for man IL did not
deayor a. leaft TO aud improve know Of no part
OF that reat country which in the regular of the
progress. which il has cultivated not without advantage
and success has transcribed the advantage and the
with which progress has been cultivated in this place
where stand and in its immediate neighborhooi.
Manchester has grown with ropdity which as under
stand from all would put to the blush the an
oC almost any other place upon the face Of the
globe Indeed had the predictions OF Of your polit
ica writers OF century and half ago been al al veri
fed and other parts OF this great Kingdom had gone on
at all in the ratio OF progress and advancement
which has distinguished Manchester, your country
/ would have oyerfiowed with population and vou
| would not be able to contain nj its population. At
that time Joshua Gee and others supposed that ten mil
lions considered much1s could subss upon the
island OF Great Britanand yet il has been that
numtcr has been doubled and even advance made TO.
wards treblng that number without the slightest ap
pIoach to disadvantage while uponsaeres OF
claimed ground have been left for the purpose being
devoted 10 the uses Of the popnation when they shah
| extend to such degree shall require them All
say is this my rends-that when the time shah
predicted BY the political writer's Of the day to which
have referred, that your island shall in the OF
things be oyergrown with populatca and that il shall
fnd discomfort in that multitude and in the clcseness Of
their habitations, why then you will find hospabc
welcome among the hundreds Of millions of acres that
abound upon the other side Of the Atlantic where that
surplus population is calculated to interfere in any
the slightest degree with them that remain in happiness
| at home when they shall migrate amongst ami
| Grd in reality neighbors and brothers weil as
friends among the dwelers in that vast tract OF
| try. (Applause) have referred, in passing. Incl
dentally they occurred to to one or
| two writers Of this country but thei~ IL another
whose observation flashes upon my mind at this
ment 10 this cifcct-thAt the prosperity Of the United