Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1857-03-20

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val defences Of the country.
&. <.-- Daily Journal of the 18th inst.
| MIR. Dobbin Mt Home.
On the 12rh inst. public meeting of citizens oil
Fayetteville was held at the Town Hail. in that place
pursuant to the call the Mayor the object being
give expression 10 the feelings of affection and re-
spect with which Mr. Dobbin is regarded by biz
friends and neighbors. without distinction Of party
and 10 extend 10 him welcome home in accordance
with those feelings. AT the meeting suitable resou
tons were passed. and committee appointed te
make arrangements for public reception but, on itt
being understood that the state of Mr.. Dobbn's
health would render it unadvisable for him 10 part
cipate in any public demonstration, it was subse
quentIy resolved 10 spare him the excitement and IA
,gue necessarily attendant upon such an occasion
and at meeting of the committee of arrangements
held on Friday, ii ordered simply that salute OIL
thirteen guns he fired at the river, that the Marshall
Major O'Hanlon-and E. J. Hale, Esq, meet Mr.
Dobbin on the boat, present him address in writing
and furnish suitable conveyance for himself and
suite to his residence.
| On Saturday, Mr.. Dobbin arrived, materially bet
tered by most comfortable night the boat He
was accompanied by DR.. Wheelan. chief of the Med
ical and Surgical Bureau Of the Navy Hon. War
rem Winsow was also passenger on the Magnolia,
having accompanied MIR. Dobbin from Washington
City.
On his arrival, the programme arranged was car
ried out.
| The following are the resolutions adopted at a
meeting of the citizens of Fayetteville, held the
| 18th inst:
WHEREAS, We have learned that our distinguished
and esteemed fellow citizen, the Honorable JAMES c..
DoBBIN, will arrive in this place Saturday next
and whereas DESTROYS to bid him welcome
| home with some marks of our high respect tor him
as statesman, who has reflected honor upon him
SELF upon the country, and upon his native State and
town, oy his admirable administration of the Navy
Department for the last four years and whereas we
feel peculiar pride in him friend and tow nsman,
who in all his high positions has cherished for this
community an unchanged feeling Of affection and
lively interest:
| Therefore Resolved, That for the purpose of ex-
pressing to him sense of the honor he has reflect
ed especially upon his native town, and of awarding
TO him that approval which is alike dur to unbending
integrity and answering fidelity in the discharge of
reception.
Resolved, That committee of thirteen be appoint
ed TO make all necessary arrangements for Garry ing
into effect the desire of this meeting.
AS already stated, the public reception was dspens-
ed with in consequence of the feeble safe of Mr..
Dobbns health. The following is the address of the
Citizens, together with Mr. Dobbin's reply -
To the Hon. Jas C. Do6bin:
SIR! The duty assigned US, by the citizens of
Fayetteville, of rendering 10 you cordial welcome
to your home in their midst, would indeed be most
agreeable one, if could adequately express their
| feelings and own, Of respect for the public SER
want, and of affection for the private individual,
whom proud to call our fellow citizen.
1t is meet that the people should honor those who
have faithfully discharged public dutes who have
used power without abusing ii, who have sought to
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 moder
alton with irmness, to have secured universal re-
spect among the gallant spirits whom you have com
manded during the past four years You have not
only maintained your good name at home, in your
beloved North Carolina, but have established an en-
yiable reputation throughout this broad Union. and
even in that part OF Europe where American superi.
GRITTY is most unwillingngly acknowledged.
1t becomes us, therefore. 10 welcome the faithful
and Efficient and self sacrificing public servant, who
surrenders the seals of Office with integrity unsuI
lied as his fame is brilliant and enduring.
But you stand in nearer relation to u.s. 1t we
honor you public man, we love you friend.
Those among US whose heads have been touched by
the rosts of I ime, remember your early yeats, so
Use of noble career Of honor and usefulness. 1.-The
Boy Father to the Man" You have blighted
no hope then formed by your friends, discarded no
right principle then nurured in your young mind
Political life, that rock on which many regulations
have foundered, has but illuminated 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 peo-
pie.
With such recolleclions of your boyhood, your
manhood, and your maturer years, your fellow citi
Zens OF Fayetteville with heart welcome you to
Home And with one voice mplore the Disposer Of
all events tina. it may be to you, for many, many
years, Home of Health and Happiness!
We have the honor 10 be,
! Your friends and fellow citizens,
4 E. J. HALE,
JOHN McRAE,
+ s. LUTTERLOH
JOHN H. COOK,
J. w. PEARCE,
/ SAML. w. TILLINGHAST,
CHARLES T. HAIGH,
! w. DRAUGHON,
A. A. McKETHAN,
! A. J. OHANLON
C. B. MALLETT,
J. w. SANFORD,
EDWARD LEE WINSLOW,
A. MCLEAN
Fayetteville, March IA, 1857.
/ SATURDAY EVENING, March ID, 1857.
GENTLEMEN Your letter of "welcome home
again, just handed to me, is 80 cordial clothed &C
richv in the glowing lanouape not of mere