Litchfield enquirer., 1864-12-01


 Edward Everett on President .lanssia:
 At the pleasant banquet given to Cant ain Winsluw and the .ficers and crew of ths Kearsags, iu Boston, on Tuesday evening last the Hon. Edward Everett made the foIlov;,~ eloquent address
 ME CHAIRMAN :- am highly complimentsd by being called upon to respond to the tosst <, honor of the President of the Upitej Staiss - ' Having already had an opportunity in Fapsus, Hall of paying grateful tribute of resp.ct to Captain WinslUw and his gallant assoc;a,ea' I shall leave this noble topic to the gentlemen who follow me, and who are so well able to do it justice, and confne myself to the spec;Rc duty which you have assigned me. The toast is certainly one which 1 am sure will be vel. comed by every gentleman at the table, what, ever difference of political opinion may pre- vail here. You pay this mark of respect to thS President, not as the successful candidate. after a severely contested election, but as the consti. tutional head of the Government of the conn. try. the Supreme executive officer of the Uni. ted States, the commander-in chief of the army and navy, and the personal representative of the people in the family of nations. In inc honofs you pay to the President. you honor yourselves. It is becoming mark of respect on the part of people, thus to recognize the object of the peoples choice. This remark of respect is never withheld from the head of | thn iS Turlcn1 4 home in Great Britain, but in the world.en. composing circuit of her dominions. Wheisvor. festive entertainment is held, the health of the Queen is
 "1n their flowing cups freshly remembered" It would be unbecoming, indeed if honors cheerfully paid, irrespective of party, to an hs- redltary sovereign, were withheld from the Chief Magistrate of great Republic, eleva-- ted to that position by the choice of the peo- pie. The sovereign. who rules by the right of birth. has come into the world like the meatf- est of his subjects, but civic &ct like that of this day week, by which twehty-two millions of freemen, citizens of twenty-two States. as- socated in one great Republican Union, estab-; lished over territory as vast as Europe. have assembled, on an appointed day, in their re-, spective towns, cities and villages, after an ar-; dent canvass, with all the settlements of civil war kindling throughout the country, and without tumult, violence, or the display of mil-, itary force. have elected the constitutional head of the State is spectacle of moral sub limity not surpassed in the annals of the world Mir. Chairman, I do not agree with those who maintain that the idea of loyalty has no place in Republic. regard it., 6If the contrary as one of the elements of tho patriotic sentiment, which surely ought to jbrs.. vail with augmented force. on the part Of the citizens of State, where ali govern ment ultimately rests on popular choice. Loyalty, in fact, in it's primitive meaning. is fealty to the law, and as such. surely carries with it. as necessary, consequence. the duty of becoming respect. in their several degrees, to those who on behalf of the people, make, administer, and execute the law. On any other principle, it would follow. that the marks of respect paid to m European King and Queen. were paid. not to the office, but to the person of the individual. Now. though at the present time the throne of England is filled by sovereign lady. who. by all tho womanly, not less than by all the queeuip virtues is also enthroned in the hsarts of her subjects, Mr. Thackeray's lectures on the four Georges are too well remembered not to prove either that loyalty is not a sentiment which mainly regards the person of the seye- reign, or if 1t is. that public sentiment in England during four successive reigns-io 70 no further back-must have heen strangely 1 misdirected.
 | Isu { I would not have it inferred. from these remarks. that the President of the United States, in whose h'oor you have prIposad the toast to which von have called me to respond. is entitled to this marked resppr. only in hia official capacity. Now th,t the struggle is past, am sure that no liberal minded parson. however opposed to him politically t,nf you know. Sir that belong to tn. Presidents oppostion.'') will be unwilling that in perform ing the duty you have involvad upon m.. should say that recogniz" in hin of full measure of the qualities which entitle him to the personal respect Of tho people. who have | just given him proof of their conf lenee mt extended to any of his predecessors in this generation. It is no small proof of this. that he has passed through the fiery ordeal of the recent canvass, and stood the storm of detr,c- 1 ton from hundreds of vigorous and hostile presses, and had so little said against him (E speak now of personal qualities which deserves even an answer. There is no one of his prede- cessofs, not even WASHINGTON, of whom as many and as reproachful things have not been said, unless, perhaps, it be Mir. MoNRoE. who had the happiness to fall upon "the era of good feeling," and who was, in no one quality. either as man or a President superior to Mir. LIx- COLIN. The President gave ample proof of his intellectual capacity, when he contested a seat in the Senate of the United States with Judge DOUGLAS. When sat in the Senate with Judge DOUGLAS. thought him, for business and debate. the equal of the ahest in that body but his speeches, in the Senatorial can. vass were in no respect superior to Mr. LrS- COINS. believe the President to be entirely conscientious in the discharge of his high trust. and that, under circumstances of unparalleled difficulty, he has administe red the Government with tho deepest sense of responsibility to his country aud to his God. He is emi inentlF kind-hearted. I am sure he spoke the truth. the other day, when he said that he had never willingly planted thorn in any mans bosom. He is one of the most laborious and indefati- gable men in the country, and that he has been able to sustain himself under as great load of care as was ever laid upon the head or the. heart of living man, is in no small degree. owing to the fact that the vindictive and angry. passions form D part of his nature. and that kindly and playful spirit mingles it's sweetness with the austere cup of public duty. It may