Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1857-09-17
Ggt family Girtle.
Reception of Ex-Governor Vroom at
Trenton.

We copy from the State Gazette and
Republican" of the 9th inst. the following
account of the reception of Ex-Gov.
VRooM. late Minister to Prussia, at home.
He arrived in Trenton on Tuesday even
ing, and was escorted from the depot to the
CITY Hall, by Mayor Wood, and large
procession Of citizens. The Hall was fill
ed to its utmost capacity, and hundreds,
unable to find admission, lined the side
walk and street in front of the building.
The assemblage was called to order by
Mayor Wood, who introduced Mr.. Vroom
Hon. VIM. L. Dayton then welcomed
him in brief, but beautiful speech, OF
which we can give but meagre report,
no provision having been made for the
accommodation of reporters. The follow
ing, however, is the substance OF his
speech:
Sir:-I have been charged by the citi.
zens and authorities of Trenton, with the
grateful duty of rendering, on their be-
half, their congratulations on your safe
return to your country and your home
We meet you with no courtly favor, no
idle ceremonial to chill our greeting
We meet you in our Republican simpllci-
ty and with an united voice and sincere
hearts, we bid you welcome, thrice wei
come. to yonr home and your friends
And in the spirit of soberpess, we ask to
Join in thanks to benignant Providence,
that after your long absence in foreign
land, YOU return without an affection to
mar your happiness, with no sundered tie,
with no empty chair in the circle of your
hearth and freside, to darken the JOY oil
this greeting.
During your residence as Minister at
the Court of Berlin, your countrymen,
and especially We, your fellow-townsmen,
have viewed your course with thanks and
pride, feeling that in honoring yourself,
you reflected honor upon us. Your
duties we knew would be discharged with
unyieding integrity, and the dignity be-
coming a representative of powerful ma
ton, and we felt that while you would
not unnecessarily obtrude your country
upon the attention of the world, you
would not yield hairs breadth OF its
just claims, or of its honor
Your residence at the Court of Berlin,
and in Germany, could rot but have been
otherwise than agreeable. A country SO
famed for its schools and its seminaries
CT learning, and people SO honorably
characterized BY their love of home and
fatherland, possessed, no doubt. many at
fractions. But you too, sir, had father
land and home, and your heart could
not but turn with anxiety and hope to-
ward that land which you SO honorably
represented. And permit US to express
the wish that the fruition of your hopes
may more than equal the anticipation.
During your residence abroad, the old
world has been involved in exhausting
wars. which are yet scarcely concluded,
but here all has been peace, and our tri
umphs have been achieved in the field OF
industry-in developing our resources,
aud in the achievements of agriculture
and commerce. You return to find us
prosperous and united. Differences in
politics and monetary crisis have for a
brief moment overshadowed us, but they
have never reached the great fountain,
the living well of our prosperity. Our
agriculture has been prosperous beyond
precedent the husbandman has been law
ishly repaid for his toil-our graneries
are filled to bursting. and the markets OF
world insure our reward.
Growing and strengthening year by
year, our country is rapidly assuming its
place at the head of the nations-and
this country is your country, and your
home, and to that home we again well
come you've welcome you in the Ian
guage eff those friends who upon the 9th
err side Of the water babe you good bye.
May you long live to enjoy the honors of
! your country, the affection of your friends
the love of your family, and, greater than
all, the appreciation Of your own con-
science.
Mr.. Vroom was sepsibly affected by the
enthusiastic welcome given him, and his
deep feeling was manifested in his voice
and manner. In reply, he spoke substan-
TALLY as follows =
| Sir:-I feel utterly unable to
express the emotions that thrill and agi-
tate my heart, at this welcome to my
uOHCs Dec dIOuuu iIlG lIlCHuc anu uOiSA
bors who have known me we'll for many
years, and to whom the vicissitudes oil
my lite have been open, as they have been
to all the world. | come to them, not
clothed with power, but as humble cit
izen, to mingle with them, and to be Of
them; and 10 meet with such reception
from them, as this, SO grateful to my
heart fills me with emotions which / can.
not utter.
return to you, Sir, and through you
to the citizens around me, my heartfelt
thanks for the voluntary and spontane.
Gus welcome accorded to me. and | can
only say l bless you for this testimony
of your kindness. / have been absent
from you four years, and other objects and
other Interests have sprung up, and to
find that | am still remembered SO warm.
y, and so Kindly, is deeply grateful, and
from my heart, | thank you.
1t is now more than four years since ]
lett you, to sojourn in another land.
They have been to me years Of comfort
and of satisfaction, and if they have been
also satisfactory to my countrymen. ]
have indeed reason to be happy in their
remembrance. During these years | have
| ALWAYS heau treatad with tho hiUhpSt re-