Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-07-16
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President Pierce reached Baltimore on Monday
last on his way to attend the opening Of the
Chrystal Palace, New. York. He was received in
a manner which must have been most gratifying
to his feelings. The following is his response the
welcoming speech of the Mayor of Baltimore
"Mr. Mayor, and FelIow.ctzens OF the city of Bal
timore my heart is full, and il would be difficult to
express the depth of feeling with which this cordial
welcome has impressed me. (APPIause.) Your cisi-
zens, by their partial friendship, and more than
generous confidence, had previously imposed upon
me debt Of gratitude which years devoted their
SERVICE and to the interests and honor of our
country can scarcely cancel. (AppIause.) To be
thus surrounded by popula less distinguish
ed for its chivay than for its intelligence and tried
patriotism, is peculiarly gratifying. And among the
pleasant memories suggested by the occasion, who
fail to be reminded where the banner of unbri-
died, unqualified religious federation first freely
given to the breeze. (Great applause.) You can
not be in such an atmosphere without feeling its WV
| flying influence. Every man who has partots
lungs must feel it, because every man knows that
religious federation lies at the foundation Of civil
liberty. (APplause.)
| No transient traveller enter this city without
being struck with the evidences of enterprise and
honest thrift which everywhere meet the eye. Bal
| tlmore has stood prominently forth in that aston
ishing progress of our country which may be truly
said 10 have outmarched prophesy. Her great adj
vantagrs in a commercial point of view have OF course
always been marked and apparent but her comman.
ding geographical position, far as internal
merce is concerned, forciby alluded TO by Washing
ton as early as 1896, is only beginning to be appre
ciated even by yourselves, the great West pours
in its boundless resources at the bidding of your
enterprise, and the judcious application of your
means to those internal Improvements which leave
the destiny of Baltimore one of the great cities Of
the world no matter of doubt
But, after all, it is the increase of your popu
laton and weaIth-the augmentation of your ship
ping interest," your crowded depots and markets, eem
ing with the products agricultural and mineral of the
lnteror-the erection of splendid edi6ces, rising
it were by magic-nor all these combined, which
chiefly engross the thoughts Of the patriotic citizen,
and give to his pulse quicker and Prouder throb,
he enters your environs and sees these monuments
in the distance. They may cruInbIe-,hat is their
destiny-nay, they will mouder and mngle with
The common earth, but the inspiration Of the deeds
of valor which they commemorate, which saved you
from the shame of the presence and tread OF foreign
sOldery, vii; never perish. {APplause.]
Who shall say what has been the extent or the
power of the example of self-sacrifcing heroism
which sIgnalized the defence of North Point and
Fort McHenry in 1914! II was dark and trying
hour in our history. We were perplexed but not in
despair; cast down but not destroyed-when your
example and prOwess terminated courage and con-
fdence every where. II felt that the shield of
protection, superior to all human power, always re-
cognized by torefathers during their great srug
gle, was still over US. Let remember II and ever
acknowledge it with humble and grateful hearts.
(APPlause.) Who shall say especially how much
your monuments for those who fell, and your reve-
renee dno aHecu0nat6 esteem Tor those VINO sur.
vived the conflicts Of the anxious days and nights
to which have adVered, have had to do with the
free and gallant Iiba,ions of Maryland blood upon
many fields of Mexico (APplause.)
The fathers of the revolution taught their sons that
they owed their first duty their country-a duty
not TO be avoided, but to be cheerfully fulfilled in
the face of all consequences and Of every hazard.
lCheers. Has not the Almighty blessed TO
(hei descendens) their example. their experience.
and their lessons Nobler praise cannot be bestowed
than to say that State in this conederacy has fur
uIshed a more impressive exempli6caton OF the pow
er Of that teaching than that before whose people
have now the honor to stand. Applause.
MIR. Mayor, pleasant incident comes at this mo-
ment back to my memory, to which may be pardon
cd for adverting Soon after the barque -kePer an
chored with portion of The ninth infantry, near the
castle Of San Juan de UIoa. about the 30th of June,
l847, another transport came to anchor within ca
bles length of her. We could not discern the ship,
her deck the stirring Of" the Star-SPangIed
Banner" The effect was electrical. thought
probably, from association, that the ship from
Baltimore and the fact verified The impression. Boats
tween the sons of MARYLAND and those of New Eng
land, which trust may never be interrupted. ZAP.
plause.]
But, borne on by my feelings, have detained you
much too long. TCries of mo, no Go on!''1 If
already yours not designated throughout the
land as 90 the Monumental City" would venture
to chrsten it, Pre-emineny entitled to the name,
" the City Of the Star.Spangled Banner" While
you will hail with Joy the appearance Of every new
star, after another shall be added to the
selIation you will always proclaim, upon the honor
and faith of Maryland, that the number shall never
be less. Great applause.
Sir. thank you most cordially. thank you all,
gentlemen, for your presence here to-day, and hope
may meet under agreeable circumstances long
years to come. -"
The President accompanied by Messrs. Da-
Wis, Guthrie, and Gushing. He left Baltimore on
Tuesday morning for Philadelphia.
At New York, where the President was to ar
rive on Thursday, he was to be received by the
entire military at the Battery, and escorted to the
Chrystal Palace where the formal welcoming was
to take place, and the ceremonies Of the opening
of the exhibition were to be Immediately proceed
ed with.
Re The people of the State will learn with re-
greet, from the following letter, that the Hon.
Thomas Ruffin has declined to act as Commits
sioner for revising the statute laws
RALEIGH, July 11th, 1853.
Sir: feel greatly honored by the confidence of
the Legislature in associating with the two dis
tinguished gentlemen previously appointed, revise
the Statutes OF this State and should be pleased,
if could with propriety accept the appointment.
am obliged however, TO decline it, as am unwilling
to undertake duty which may not be able to per-
form as / ought. The work is of great importance
and of some difficulty and it better that it should
be done all than that it should not he well done.
To do it we'll much time, study and labor requisite:
MORE [ am sure, than il would be in nv power. con.