The true Democrat., 1855-10-02

WutIG ClSC upOu Cdltll Call SpOG Uc lOuuu Utu- ter suited to your purpose? No noise of rival factions disturbs this peaceful valley. Here all meet in forgetfulness of party differences, and alone by the feeling that the country over which you preside is our country and that oul true glory is in the American name. That health-giving fountain, like the pool of Sloan gives strength to the weak, and restores the faded rose in all its morning pride to the cheek banched by sickness and by pain. To this spot we tender you a true and cordial welcome, and, after the manner of our fathers, receive you in our midst to all our social enjoyments as one of us.
 The President of the United States replied as follows:
 He said that he had come hither for relaxa- ton and repose, but although he could not re- press feeling of regret when he heard, late last evenlng ot the purpose to receive him in a pubic manner, he was nevertheless deeply nov ed by this warm and cordial greeting on the part of his countrymen assembled at this para disc of watering places, the attractions and charms of which were strikingly evinced by the presence of those from all, even the most dis tant portions of the Union, who represented more than twenty-five millions of people; and, might he not add. without violation of the pro- prieties of the occasion, he hoped none of the modern tsn1s, which were potent for evil but powcrlcss for good, which could distract and destroy, but never construct or adorn. He was sure that this assemblage, while it comprised so large share of the beauty and refinement al- so represented the intelligence, patriotism, and valor of the country.
 Permit me, sir, he said, to express the grati- flcatlon that the part you have consented to bear on this occasion has imparted to me per sonally, and to say that no citizen in the coun- try rejolces more sincerely than myself in the fact thaty are enjoying the best reward which can be accorded to faithful and conscientious public servant, the only really valuable, worthy recompense for duties we'll performed and days well spent. You cannot have failed to observe with just pride now that the emotions of per sonal ambition and the passions and preiudces of party strife have passed away, that the con- viction has settled upon the public mind that in your conductof national affairs you were ac- tuated by pure motives, and that high purposes were bravely and wisely executed
 The President did not fail to appreciate the comprehensive and national tone of the re- marks which had just been made. They were in the only spirit worthy of an American citi- zen. An opposite sprit-one sectional or fa- natical-would have stamped disgrace and de- feat upon the ens gn of the revolution. It would have paralyzed the energies which, in that great contest for the right of lf-govern- ment inspired words of defiance, and gave blows ot vlgor when vigor was so much need ed. It would have made this glorious consti- tution-under which we have lived together and grown together in peace, under the con- trolling Influence of which we have enjoyed for more than sixty years such degree of ad- vancement, prosperity, and happiness, indivi- dualy and socially as States anl as confedera- cy, as the world has never yet witnessed, and which only mad fanaticism would recklessly destroy-an impossblity.
 Strive, said he to compute the value of this peerless inheritance, both by what it cost and by the blessings which it has already conferred, and see how vain are all efforts at computation The great and expressing question which, un- der existing circumstances, should call for the proloundcst deliberations of every man who values the boon of civil and religious liberty, IS here to preserve that which if once lost can never be recovered. The general answer must be, by all possible means, but chiefly by ha- bltua reverence for every principle, and cheer 1ul obedionce to which our fathers pledged themselves, and bound Us their children; by a sacred maintenance, not only in letter but in
 
 In country so vast as this, So diversified in eli mate, soil, productions, interests and population, 1t was vain to expect the prevalence of the same sentiments or concurrence in the same opin- lons But this was true during the revolution -Just as true at the adoption of the constiu- ton, which embraced the then thirteen States, as It IS now. ltwas then perfectly understood. But the generation of our fathers were not merely brave and patriotic: they were emi- nenty wise and practical men. They saw how valn would be the attempt to preserve the H. bertes of this country without cordial union upon all questions which could not be better and more safely ntrusted to the States, and they made the best provision for this diversity which human wisdom could devise. Under that provision, said he, 1 can cherish and love, as do the institutions of the State in which was reared. You, and these our countrymen, from whatever region they may have come from the Madawaska to the Capes of Florida can do the same, and the man who interferes with the enjoyment of our rights and privileges in this regard, and in all others, fails to keep faith, and is recreant to the most sacred injlnc- tions of duty. It is no matter what our pecll- liar views may be, or what prcjudices may take possession of our minds or hearts, if, as Ame- rcan citizens we find ourselves constrained by law higher or more imperative than this law, we then deny the obligations which the con- stitution imposes, and can have no just claim to the protection and blessings which it con- fers.
 The President said he apprehended that the great danger to be guarded against at the pre- sent time, was the prevalence of heresies which were In direct antagonlsm with the basis, doc trines, and principles of the constitution, and, perhaps he might say, a general want of defe- renee to the authority of the law. Let it be remembered that whenever in a State or terri ritory, from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast, a single citizen of the republic is deprived of the right guaranteed to him by law, there is a blow aimed at the constitution itself. It matters not whether that citizen be so wronged by evasion or violence; and let it also be remembered that he suffers not alone! The whole frame work of our system, to greater or less extent, inevi- taby feels the shock. Hence, obedience to the fundamental law, and to all laws, national or State, local or municipal, enacted insubordina- tion thereto is the lesson first to be taught, and the last to be disregarded
 The President remarked in conclusion, that although we were assembled here for relaxation and to enjoy the noble scenery and bracing at. mosphere, we could not be unmindful of the soil upon which we trod, nor could we, if we would, withhold our cheerful, grateful homage from the "Mother of States and statesmen.' Here she stood, with all the glorious memorie: of the past, and the kindling hopes of the flu ture clustering pre-eminently around the fields of her victory and the tombs of her sages!- Here, upon her calm bosom, repose the ashes o the Great Captain, who, thoroughly inspired with the idea of patriotic nationality, solved under the providence of God, the problem o independent sovereignty for this continent Here, near the seat of learning which he esta bllshed rises the modest shaft which points t' the burial spot of the bold but sagacous ane philosophic reformer who promulgated and de veloped in the declaration of independence, ant in the act of 1787, ito establish religious free dom in Virginia" now incorporated into her con stitution, the great principles of civil and reli gious Fberty
 Both speeches were received with great an