Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-04-03
GRACEFUL yALEDICToRY.

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! From the London Times March ID.
Last night the Lord Mayor and Lady
Mayoress entertained Mr.. Buchanan, the
American Minister, and a select party at
dinner in the Egyptian hall of the Mansion
Iouse, as mark Of respect and consi GER.
atoE on the occasion OF bid leaving Eng
! land as the, representative OF the United
States to return to his native country.
On the removal o. the cloth the usual
loyal and patriotic toasts we're drunk.
The LORD MAYOR then said he had a.
mong his visiters that evening a dstingu.
ished gentleman and an llustrious states.
man, the Minister Of the United States.
Cheers. That gentleman was about to
leave this country, his successor to this
Court having been rppointed and being
daily expected to arrive among us. He
should have felt it a great reflection on his
mayoralty and a manifest dereliction of dutv
if he had omitted such an opportunity of
showing that mark of respect to the Min
lister Of the United States which he ha6 II
in his power to bestow as the Chief Mag.
strate of the city of London. At all times
the citizens of London had received, and he
trusted ever would receive, with more than
ordinary pleasure the representative of the
great transatlantic Republic in this country:
and it was in that oenae, and also because
he was about to return to his native land;
that Mr. Buchanan was peculiarly welcome
to partake of his hospitality. Cheers r.
He knew that he would cary with him She
best wishes of the people of this country for
his happiness and prosperity in his own
land, and he hoped he would return there
with no other than kindly and abiding
recollection of the great peculs among
whom he had been so long resident. He
gave them "the health of Buchanan.
Loud cheers.
! Mr.. BUCHANAN RESPONDED to this compli.
ment as follows.
My LORD MAYOR, LADIES, AND GENTLE
MEN: receive with profound and grateful
feelings this testimonial from the present
company Of the regard in which they hold
my country, for l do not attribute it to my
SELF I can say, however, in all truth and
sincerity, that shall ever preserve grate-
full memory of the kindness which l have
inva riably received in England. have yet
10 meet the first English gentleman who
/ has not treated me as if had been cou NJ
tryman of his own. tCheers. l say nothing
of the ladies, because l ought not to speak
of them, although they are the fairest part
of creation.
shall carry home with NE every sort Of
grateful feeling towards the people of this
country, among whom have never felt my
self stranger. Speaking the same langu-
age, having read the same books, having had
! intercourse with kindred free people, I
have always spoken my sentiments freely
and respectfully in every society in which I
have been. l have invariably found that an
English gentleman treated me kindly, and
if we differed in opinion we have had fair
argument, and we have always parted in
peace and friendship.
| With regard to the two countries, what
drea dfui misfortune it would be to the
whole human race il they should ever again
be involved in war! How it would iniure
and throw back the cause Of civilization and
human liberty! How it would delight the
despots of the earth to find those two ma.
tons destroying themselves, and in that way
destroying every hoped for progress to man
kind! [Cheers. hold it that there can be
no political slavery where the English Ian.
guage is the language of the country
II Renewed cheers. 1t is impossible; and, so
far from there being any Jealousy, so far
from. its being proper that there should be
any Jealousy in either country as to the
honest and fair extension Of the frontiers OF
either, it ought to be considered blessing
20 mankind that they should have the op-
portunity of extending their freedom and
liberal institutions over all the unsettled
parts of the earth. Cheers.]
am sorry to say that, with all these feel
| ings and sentiments, from the first separa-
tion of the two countries there has unfor-
tunately always been group of unsettled
questions. There is cloud now impending
over their relations; but trust in Goo and
believe that cloud will speedily dissipated,
aud that the sunshine of peace and friend
ship will become more and more bright be-
tween the two countries, until all the dis
sensions which ever existed between them
shall have passed away, and shall only
live in history as record of the folly of
two peoples who could for moment sup
pose it possible to engage in a fratricidal
war. Loud cheers.
l thank you again for the cordial manner
in which you have responded to the propo-
sal of my health, and beg 20 assure you
that shall ever regard my residence in
England as one of the bright periods of my
life. Cheers
Several appropriate civic and other toasts
were proposed from the Chair and responded
to in the course OF the evening. Mr.. BUcH.
ASAN, in facet ious and complimentary
speech, gave "The Ladies'" and the compa-
ny separated between 10 and IL O'Clock.