The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1853-08-05


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4kS Grand kSnanst nhieh ~ 3is.n s.
the Directors s. BE ExhIkIlish II Ihs III
eusl1Y q 81 Nsli6as i lhs ckgs palaee
il New afk, cane oE on Friday evening
lie Isth 1T 8 tie metropolitan Hall Il
IS gotten Ill ii znifeenl style nnd rent
Of nsII M Theodore sedp 81 presided
with much ability. Among lhs guests we're
tie President ol the United States: Hon.
Howell Cobb, Gov 81 Georgia; Hon. NJ.
Guthrie, Secretary s. che Treasury; Gen.
Cuahing, Attorney General of lie United
States; ST. Charles LyslI: Count sarliges.
tha French Minister; Hon. Messrs. Edgar
ton. som Of the Rarl 81 Ellesmere; Judge
Oakley. Gen. TalImadge. and Rev. DR..
Knox, Who we're seated On the right Of the
President On his left we're Gen. Jefferson
Davis. Secretary Of War: Senator Chase. Of
Ohio; Sidney Webster. Private Secretary Of
President Pierce: Gov eeymore. Of n. u
Gen. Wool. y. $. Army; Col. Hoover. q.
S. Marshal Of the District Of Columbia; Rev.
DR.. Spring. Com. shubrick, Sc. About
800 persons, II il stated. we're seated ii the
splendid saloon Mr.. sedgwick. after re-
turning thanks to all Who had aided IN get
ting up the exhibition. to gentlemen from
al parts Of Europe. Is well as the United
States. called the attention Of the company
to the first regular toast, and after prefac-
ing It with remarks appropriate to the Pre-
sident's having attended IN person and Civ
en- the favor Of the Government to the en-
Iterprise, gave THE President Of the Uni
ted States" with the addition Of single
good old Anglo-saxon phrase, which there
would be no objection to naturalize here
God bless him!''
/ The President rose and made an appro-
pirate response Messrs Guthrie, Davis
and Cushing made addresses, having been
drawn outby neat toasts. Mr.. Guthrie ex-
pressed the astonishment Of backwoods-
man at the sights he saw il the exhibition
of industry and art, the number Of four and
six story houses. princely palaces in New
York, and the growth Of that city IN 10
years, from q. 900 to upwards Of 5oo. 900
inhabitants. complimented her enterprise.
her merchants. and her commerce Whiten-
ing every sea. her canals and railroads. DC.
His countrymen had felled forests, made
cultivated fields, offered examples IN the art
Of Agriculture that State after State had
been added to the Union, and New 7 ork
had become the commercial emporium Of
the nation; that she would yet have 2, 0oO.-
900 Inhabitants. Be-. &c The President,
it is said. retired during this speech to ct
tend the Opera.
Hon. JEFF. Davis. after referring to the
Mexican war, made political Free Trade
harangue 81 the stump orderl The New
York journals we're, Of course, very profuse
in complimentary notices Of their distin-
guished guests. but one Of them, IN refer
ring to JEFF. Davis free trade speech, very
truly remarks that the Secretary seemed to
forget that the reason Why the United States
had anything 70 show At heexhibiEion. was
owing to Protection. Mr.. Gushing made
his usual laudation Of the President--re-
sferred With bis usual ability to the genius,
enterprise and daring Of Americans. g. Sc.
Speeches we're made b. other distinguish
ed guests. which the papers sag embraced
everything under heaven.
The opening Of the Crystal Palace and
81 the accompanying ceremonies have been
crowned with the most complete success.
Il is hoped that great benefits win accrue %
this country and che world, from such ex-
hibision
my conviction Is. that however great
any State IN this Union may be. il is Moth
Ing out Of the Union. Every word | say.
MT. Dallas, is = knife ID my lungs.
So said President Pierce at Philadelphia.
and the first part we'll But We doubt the.
exact position Of that knife. The Secretary
81 War, who stood near the President. and
who has so often affirmed the dishonorable
degradation involved ii submitting to the
oompromIse, and the night ola State, mn
questioned and unmoleatsa to go out Of the
Union when il pleases, make nothing Of
isself according 70 President Pierce. and
thereby rend assnndeE ; Union 80 important
for al 70 rem ain entire be certainly must
have concluded that the President made =
slight slip between she nssuns and the tsuns,
and that The knife vas altogether Il his