The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-03-24
HoNoRs TO MIR DoBBIN
At Fayetteville, N. C.


The citizens of Mr. Dobbin's native town,
Fayetteville, without distinction of party,
made arrangements to tender him a hand
some public reception at that place ON his
return on Saturday the 18th inst, but owing
to the precarious condition Of Mr. Dobbin's
health the programme for the occasion was
changed, and he was met at the wharf by
committee of citizens headed by E. j.
Hale, Esq, senior editor of the Observer,
and presented with an Address. A salute
of thirteen guns was fred and Mr. d. was
conveyed through the town to his residence
on Haymount in a carriage drawn by four
gray horses.
The following is the Address of the Com
mittee and the response of Mr. Dobbin:
To the Hon. Jas. C. Dobbin:
SIR: The duty assigned US by the citizens
of Fayetteville, of rendering to you a cor
dial welcome to your home in their midst,
would indeed be most agreeable one, if
we could adequately express their feelings
and our own, Of respect for the public SER
| want, and of affection for the private indi-
vidual, whom we are proud to call our
| fellow citizen.
1t is meet that the people should honor
| those who have faithfully discharged public
duties, who have used power without abus-
ing it, who have sought 10 attain no mere
private ends at the public expense. You,
sir, have done more than this. You have
SO tempered authority with kindness, so
blended moderation with frmness, as to
have secured universal respect among the
| gallant spirits whom you have commanded
during the past four years. You have not
only maintained your good name at home,
in your beloved North Carolina, but have
established an enviable reputation through
out this broad Union, and even in that part
of Europe where American superiority is
most unwilingly acknowledged.
1t becomes US. therefore, to welcome the
| faithful and efficient and self sacrificing
public servant, who surrenders the seals of
office with integrity as unsullied as his
| fame is brilliant and enduring.
| But you stand in a nearer relation to US.
| If we honor you as e public man, we love
you as friend. Those among US whose
heads have been touched by the frosts of
Time remember your early years, SO
Astounding in all that is exemplary, SO rich
| usefulness. 1.-The Boy was Father to the
Man" You have blighted no hope then
formed by your friends, discarded no right
principle then nurtured in your young mind.
| Political life, that rock on which so many
regulations have foundered, has but illumi-
mated an integrity which, however rare
| among political men in other sections of
the country, is characteristic of those of
| North Carolina, and warmly cherished by
her people.
With such recollections of your boyhood,
your manhood, and your maturer years,
your fellow citizens of Fayetteville with
one heart welcome you to Home! And
with one voice implore the Disposer of all
events that it may be to you, for many,
many years, Home of Health and Happi-
ness
We have the honor to be,
Your friends and fellow citizens,
E. J. HALE,
JOHN McRAE,
L. S. LUTERLOH,
JNO. II. COOK,
j. w. PEARCE,
S. w. TILLINGHAST,
CHARLES Il. HAIGH,
w. DRAUGHON,
A. A. MckETHAN,
A. j. OHANLON,
G.. b. MALLETT,
J. w. SANFORD,
E. L. WINSLOW,
A. MCLEAN.
Fayetteville, March IA, 1857.