Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1857-05-09
MR.. EVERETT AT ST. LOUIS.
FROM THE ST. 1ou1s nEprnIrcAs.

1IOS1o
FROM THE ST. LOUIS REPUBLICAN,
introductory Remarks Jy No. EvereH on the occa-
sion of the delivery of the Washington Address.
The obvious reasons of courtesy and propriety
which have restrained the publication of any reports
of the Washington Address delivered by Hon. Ed
WARD EVERETT last Monday evening do not APP
ply to a report of the Introductory remarks with
which he conciliated the attention of st. Louis
audience. They were purely local in their refe-
renee, SO exceedingly happy in their illusions, and
gratifying to the rational pride of the citizens of
St. Louis, that we know they will be welcomed in
print, not only by those who listened to them, and
to the matehless address which followed but also by
all whose misfortune it has been not to be present
on any one of the occasions when Mr.. EVERETT has
addressed the extraordinary large assemblages met
to hear him. We are enabled this morning to pre-
sent TO our readers sketch of those remarks which
may be regarded as full and accurate:
Mr. President, LADIES' AND GENTLEMEN: | expert
apecar satisfaction in appearing before you,
der the auspices of the Mercantile Library Association
of St. Louis. am old enough to remember the cesson
of Louisiana the United States in 1909 it is the ear-
est political event of which have distinct recollection
Your city, up to that time, inconsiderabe FROM
tier settlement founded in the last century by enter
prisng, sagaeious, and farseeng men, principally for
the purpose of carrying the Indian trade subject
foreign jurisdiction, in remote foreign colony. 1t
the soil of the American continents but had no
thing else in with the United States from which
indeed separated by powerful independent Indian
tribes Had it then been foretold me-a lad about as
high this table, at of the Boston public schools
that should live see st. Louis city four FIVE
times large Boston then was nearly large as
Boston is; that should reach it by continuous
iron road of than twelve hundred miles, travelling
the whole distance in vehicles of novel construction moved
byasteam osD that arriving should find the banks
of the river lined for mile two with
size and strange construction also propelled by steam
(and such sight both by land and water witnessed
this morning the evee under the friendly guidance
Mr.. KENNETH and Mr.. TERRY the great tides q traffic
pouring into your from the quarters
of the compass; that should here by the invita-
surrounded with an amount of local accommodation
equal to those of the prosperous similar nstitu-
tions of the Eastern cities; that should find in it
only large and valuable library but that the first OBJ
ect should in the anteroom would be one of those
marvellous Assyran slabs from the banks of the Tgris
specimen of the very Oldest form of the of sculpture
practised by man-sole remaining monuments of peo-
pie and language dominant throughout the East three
thousand but for ages utterly past away and
existing only in these strange relics WHILE to estab
sh most interesting contrast the library is adorn
ed by of the and most pleasing creations of
modern art Miss HosMER's Enone the work of youth
full American scuptress, daughter of Massachusetts,
that under these circumstances, in this noble hail. amidst
these charming floral decorations in the presence of
audience intelligent, and comprehending many of
the living flowers of beauty and grace which adorn your
prosperous city, should have the privilege speak of
WASHINGTON, and that, too, in aid of the noble efforts
making to his dwelling and his tomb from The
chances and vicsstudes to which private property is
subject and to place under the permanent ags of the
public protection if this the 1.-THE of it had been
foretold to -four years ago. when first heard of
the cesson of louisiana surely should have regarded
it most wild and extravagan dream. But the wild
dream has proved sober TRUTH and the circumstances
have mentioned are but the outline of the reality.
Nor are these remarks, my friends wholly foreign to
the subject Of my address This wondrous gresh
astonishing chJD>-~ ssbooy ,uceu oy the intro
1911 OF Louisiana into the Federal Union The cha
racer and services of WASHINGTON are of course among
the Interior efficient of your prosperity, much
as of that of the older portions of the Conederacy He
had passed away indeed before this was added
to the United States every thing which he did for
the younger well the older sisters great political
family who since entered into the great Inheritance He
never crossed your noble river trod your fertile so
but his thoughts habitualy turned to the West In
his youth he carried the surveyors chain where
any thing else belonging to civilization had preceded
him. his earliest public services were on what was then
the Western frontier. feel, therefore, as if might
even these grounds count upon your sympathy not
only in the special object in aid of which appear before
you this evening" but in that generation for the great
theme of my address which is indeed to every
part of the country.