The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-01-26

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welcome 1t is especially SO in LivernoeiS he.
cause ]. sounds like home, and comes near To the
neart Of an American. Hear, hear / accept il
with the utmost gratnde-I receive Il on hsbaIf ~
my country, and return it cordalIv in bahis ~ =,
that country and of my very humble self W.
are In the midst OF Liverpool Our hosts are dc
American Chamber of Commerce of Liverpool |;
their guests are distinguished nobiemen Officers
military and civil, and other enlightened gentle
men. Both are representatives of a social, DO
litical, and commercial principle; they grow Out
OF the close intercourse of two great nations loud
applause.] Wherever Liverpool has led the way
i towards the existence of general feeling which
must say have had the happiness to meet in this
country wherever have had the happiness to be
| OF kindness and good will towards my country
and Liverpool has right to lead in almost every
thing-fhear]-t is equally to be rejoced at for the
cause and effect. IT, however, ii has happened that
the sentiment throughout the country and the SEN
| timent In Liverpool are each but the echo of the
other, 1t amounts to the same thing, and both are
welcome. Liverpool might be called, if it would
not De doing injustice to the other places which
might put in claims for it, the Queen of the Ocean
entitled to wear the crown, entitled to WELD the
trident OF Neptune, not as the sceptre of war but
as an emblem and instrument of marine power
OF peace, and harmony.
! The great metropolis of this country which for
! ages has stood unrivalled in her relations might
putt in her claims Our own city of New York,
/ which stands with her long arms stretched out to
reach toward Liverpool, might also advance come
claim to similar position. But Liverpool has
done much towards such result. Here she stands
/ upon the very edge of English ground, with her
| magnificent docks pushed into the very waters of
the ocean, ready to send out her freights with the
| course of every descending sun, to the now not
distant land, and to receive appropriate returne
| But Liverpool is not merely place from which
commerce departs and to which commerce re-
turns. Her inhabitants are in the habit of calling
her seaport, with great modesty if the seaport
were the great characteristic that belonged to her
1t Is true that she is noble aport-that she has
| done every thing almost which can be conceived,
1 8 adv ar,dit Ito
wealth increases, for the purpose of making this,
her seaport if not the first, near as may be, the
very first in the world. Applause 1t is at pre-
sent, believe, the largest for exporting commerce
But, independent of all that, Liverpool does her
self great injustice if she does not pride herself
| upon her domestic and internal arrangements,
lHearl The seaport is but the gate to mag
nlhcent town; 1t is the opening to the hospitality,
and wealth. and all the elegancies of polished life
Your architecture lie as Chaste as your public
institutions are liberal and charitable. Zap
plause-l Your docks, which | have had the
| honor Of visiting to-day under the best of au-
spices, that of the Mayor of Liverpool-Tap-
plause]-are amongst the most magnificent works
which can be conceived; but If | were to specify
| an object which struck me this morning as espe-
cialy entitled to the respect and consideration of
| stranger, it would be that public library where
young men are drawn of from the haunts of vice.
from the tendency to dissipation, from possible evil
company, by occupying their minds with every.
| sort OF proper amusement and instruction. ZAP
plause.l tribute ofihis kind is due for the hos
pltallty received and the Kindness manfested but
1T ls not exactly what want to bring to the con-
sderatiCn of this company that is, that in Liver.
pool there is the best opportunity for cutivatng
that kind of good feeling already referred to- which
begins in the spirit mentioned by the chairman,
and may perhaps terminate in the same Anglo.
Saxon feeling which one day in defence of consii-
tutional liberty may call US, shoulder to shoulder
in the defence OF our common and equal rights
loud applause; it is that the stranger coming
from my native land reaches first the port of Liver.
pool; derives his first impressions here; makes his
first acquaintance here. Before he passes on to
the green fields, and fine pasturages, and the
bust population, and the ability, and wisdom, and
patriotism which he will find in the interior, he
has all that is wise. benevolent, and charita-
BILE IN Liverpool; it is that at last after paying his
visit TO this blissful and blessed land he returns TO
his own country through the town of Liverpool,
and carries with him those last impressions which
are likely to be the strongest to his own country,
to his own friends, to bis own family, and TO his
own people. [Applause.l
MIR. President, it is the circumstances of form
ing associations such that TO which have aIlud-
ed, and OF giving them force and influence during
our continuance in this country, which give rise
to the occasions which have taken place, some of
late, some of weeks, months, years ago. which
| will call for moment to the attention of all who
listen to me, which have been reciprocated, and
with zeal and feeling which trust never will be
forgotten either on the part OF those who receive
or communicate them. On the 18th of June last
in the river Congo the coast of Africa, an Ame-
rican brig ran aground. She was beset by about
yells, armed with muskets, sabres, and bayonets,
and fortified with ropes and ladders, about
ascending the vessel, and when every individual
on board would have been massacred, her males
ty's brig Dolphin, commanded by Lieutenant
Wood, came first to the of this vessel He
sent a cannonade on board, threw a shell among
the approaching savages, which burst and dispers
ed them. He followed by the FREELY, Com.
mander Seymour, who gave like aid; and, with the
assistance of these two vessels, three thousand
savages were dispersed; and, as the captain
knowledges, every one would have been destroyed,
but by this timely assistance she was able to re-
sumo her voyage. have, since / have been in
England, communicated these facts to the Foreign
Department, with the thanks of the President of
the United States. This is side of the pic
ture. In Liverpool you have recently been made
acquainted with another. AS the American mail
steamer, the Pacific, was making her voyage from
New York 10 Liverpool she took somewhat north,
srn passage, and encountered avessel at sea wa
ter logged, quite helpless, loaded with timber and
therefore in no danger of sinking, but in danger,
of going to pieces. The was 30 rough that it
impossible at the moment, to send boat to .
hers and 1t is likely those individuals would have
perished-sixteen Britons-but they were in the
presence of Americans who stood near, if neces-
sary, to sacrifice their lives in the attempt at sue
cor. They remained six hours in the neighbor
hood of the vessel found it then possible to send
safety-vaIve down; arrived at the James Stephens;
she took on board the sixteen Brions, who were on
their voyage to Glasgow-and whom our fellow
citizens were delighted to assst-restored them
all, and brought them in safety here. [Applausel
Now, it is very possible these circumstances,
friendly they are-brothery as they undoubt-
eddy are-may be aided most materially by cir.
cumstances of intervening interest which I'M
doubtedly exist between the two countries; and
it is proper, therefore, that these circumstances
of interest which exist between brothers and
friends, more than strangers, should also be
noticed. 1t is within the recollection of some in
diyiduala now living that the fret parcel Of cot
ton from America was brought, believe, into this p
port 1t took come time before the people believed
that it had been grown in America. That little
parcel has since grown to three million bales
year. England receives two thirds of this GUAM
tity, or two million bales, and our own country
consumes the rest This is one bond of union 4
IApplause.] We have $4,000 vessel. engaged in g.
the traffic between the two countries, amounting
to about 100000 of tonnage-by which vessels,
which are the traneporters of every species ofcon
merce between the one country and the other, a
bridge is almost built between one country and
the other, and we it is possible to be-
notw outstanding that the Atlantic rolls between
lApplause.] Bot there other sources of inter-
ested intercourse. You capitalists, We men of
enterprise. Your capital, the accuinu laton some.
times of generations of hereditary wealth, some
times Of prudent economy, sometimes of labored
Industry seeks investment on the other side OF the
Atlantic; our enterprise seeks capital here and
the one and the other thus mutual assistance
and ADVANTAGE. and which tend 10 fnSf.r t,,o 49,,