The New York Herald Newspaper, December 23, 1843, Page 1

’ Vol., IX, No. 340 —Whele No. 3562. WINTER = ALANINE OR, AN ovsaTonio & Westenn saily, Fun ‘gers for All tie Rooee will take elegant KA, C i f Set een OWA, Cane UL." chs lik ae x Ollori for Bridgeport tice by the Housatome and ¥, Albany, arriving samme evening at © o'clock, Finer through For: Freight, appl Raicpronp: WiNTER MAIL LINE FOR ALBA- termediate Re Siler ce ier STEVENS, captain Re = Ma wi . Courtland st. tis Wednesday, Ra Sunday wpanctt o ‘rhe Steamer UTICA, Captain J Serit, will leave abere, this, Thursday, Batarday aad Moagay afternoons, at 3 ont massage or freight, apply WP, G, Schultz at the offer, or FOR LI{y! 1OL—The New Line Packet 2192 Janvary. The new New. Vonk oatie: packet ship QUEEN W master; iio tous Tem, w Price of 100. " aeaeae iit tan, ake Pr may Teauler dayyetes Vebrury ee ‘he eet, FOR NEW ORLEANS=Loulsiona and Ne Work Une Regular Packet or Des te The ae a nye Cape. Pit silt lar = tship GASTON, Capt. 0. aa shove, a or freight or », having handseme: i accommo- aauoue alone i han hae eck Wh ee aeeeritively no goods reesived after the evening of the distin: pers by this line may rely upon having their goods cor ia New 5 S B ia ey cote es { Woodruff, who will Packet Oc. ‘ mag will shoveed the Tegulat ‘day. a2'1¢ reed: Gaaton, und sail the Loeh Fan aK . OLD LINE ER- PA diets Foe TRVERPOOL—itagstar WLC a tape GN ca wane sicily sail on Monday, tat January, her Segeiac agg ee Ur is well known that the accommodations af this noble pack: Fonmnar fray 2i,cnbin and atecrage passengers, ate tted up ina semis Bil be ‘insare tl a tf Shier ass em rie Sty wee - foved to on lect fayorive ve-set for ow, for which and to secavethr Gest Berto cota , foot at, or to the sub- id heuld be made on Rocur, BROTHERS & decka oe = P.9.—The New York sail \- nF Benth Seg York ie lo Uva Bf Sic riog ch ues ric or fa anv oF the packet Cora ‘one, sailing from that port punctually on Rag Fan oe ny te INP Yorkah'e burthen tail Gor Liverpool on the 16k thesis ies Seaease i. ‘FOit \EW ORLEANS=To salon the Buh i Tha wellknown ship MAYFLO WEN, Capia eks, will be deapst hed for the above porcou ti qubasedle abe ubiy or bid aeninn Meme aka: oot of Wall set Ot sera ride y 61 th st. N.B—The first class ship SHARON, Captain Thompson, will sail This Day, win and weather pefmivcing and Gan yet a 2 dew more cabin and steerage passenge s, apply as above. i ic aes aut a Ath ai 4 FOR SALE—A Valuable Fi Spri id. iitnated in the cowaty of lniwot Wight; a mile aad’ halt Ey > from the mouth of Nansemond River, containing about five hundred y ded on two sides by creeks (vavigable for veasels) sunning into the mouth of Nansemond her gm the farm a lange ard well Guiahed brick iedwellng " ‘one ¢ lua is well timbered with large tall pine and oaks; the pire of the Govt ualety. for st ‘wood csopsed iad tno apron nadliny aed nal cipal aes cay tivation 0 ‘wheat, cora, sweet potatoes and water melons 3 rsehed to it a fine oyster landing for planti: oysters, the best stock: farms of its afee in lower Persons wishing to parchase, by applying early, will’ meet “ituet sold privately before, it will be offered at pabli wot 50 , : tion on the premiseson the 38th dey of January iin en ar dew B, Whitehadal Saithhel af a Wigke sty WILE HINES ‘the gubseriber, 120 Staw toiy25 re NEW STYLE y A ET C. ax Le OF CHILDREN'S VELVET CAPS jeatlemen’s and "ee Soper nise among syle of Gane. and fine otter expe M N.B— fa rest WM. BRO 230 Im*r 126 Chatham st; opposite Rosevelt. LE WATER PROOF AND DRESS bucriber makes. cp order Booty of the ‘of the finest quality of Freach Calf- it atyle, and at very reasonable prices. Gen- who have been in the habit of paying extravagant for inferior articles, are requested to cell aad be convinced of Drawings belue takes of the feet sad a pair of Lasts kere f rawings ol feet, and a pair o! cept for each cascomer, here is uo difieulty ia geting a handsome an easy Mt. ‘Constantly on hand, a large assortment of v1 made Bress Boots, latest and % b fa $e ver pale, “Ones Shoes: Tat Bests. Devcine [eae Rive See LEAs ueryeeares ai jason an LOOK ENTLEMEN’S CO ity, Do Water Frost JehtEeence Cevekin Boots do $3004 serif E dis labber Over chow, with eather sole i 1 ed 1 T THIS, SOLE BOOTS, the best or #3 ‘bt ibbers, SESSss) hn co eR ce cn ne ace rt aca er Tae Tt Se tilt sinha ta tc Deiat entail oa H ‘And all othe Rivds of Boots fan Shoes in faghion: Indic’ aa Boots, Buskine, Slippers, Ties, qa . prune! Bhoes, white aud black satin Shppers, batton Shoes: "vita nabs iver SI & Raritan at arte eect er hee $$ ae NEW: YORK, SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 23, 1843. ANNIVERSARY OY THE NEW ENGLAND SOCEITY. The thirty-eighth anniversary of this national | society was celebrated in this city yesterday. jt. withstanding the very inclement state of the wea- ther, an immense assemblage convened in the Ta- bernacle to hear the oration delivered by the Hon. Rufus Choate. The audience, however, present- éda much moresolemn, or if you please, dull as- pect, than usually characterizes the gatherings in this house of prayer—temple of science—and thea- tre of music and the fine arts, It was almost al- together composed of men—not more than fifty jadies being present, and they being generally somewhat in “ the sere and yellow leaf,” rather added to thanrelieved the sombre chatacter o. the scene, At one o’clock precisely, the orator of the day, and the Hon. Daniel Webster, Rev. Dr. Wain- wright, Rev. Dr. Adama, and the Hon. Moses I. Grinnell ascended the platform, amid the plaudits of the assemblage. The exercises were commenced by the Sacred Music [Society and the audience singing the fol- lowing— HYMN. Tuns— Old Huntired.” Hail, Pilgrim Fathers of our race! With grateful hearts your toils we trace ; Again this votive day returns, And finds us bending o’er your urns. Jehovah’s arm prepared the rod . The Heathen vanished at his nod ; He gave His Vine a lasting rvot, He loads its goodly boughs with Muit. ‘The hills ate covered with its shade ; Ite thousand shoots like cedars spread ; Its branches to the sea expand, And reach to broad Superior’s strand. Of Peace and truth the gladsome ray ‘Smiles in our skies, cheers the day ; And a new Empire's splendent wheels Roll o’er the top of Western hills. Hail, Pilgrim Fathers of our race! With grateful hearts your toils we trace ; Oftas this votive day returns, Weill pay due honoteto your urns, After the hymn the Rev Dr. Adams offered up angeloquent but somewhat lengthened prayer, ex- pressing gratitude to the Almighty for past bless- ings, and imploring the divine’ guidance ‘and gra- cious care for the fature. The following new cantata, by Benjamin Wy- man, was then sung by the Sacred Music Socie- ty:— Juartette. In grateful ador mn now, 8 Upon the barren sands they how ; hat tongue of joy e’er woke such prayer, As bursts in desolation there 7 ‘What arm of st ih e’er wrought such power, As waits to crown that feeble hour ? Chorus. There into lite an infant empire springs, There fatls the iron from the soul, There liberty’s young accents roil, Up to the King of Kings. To fair creation’s farthest botind, The thrilling summons yet shall sound, The dreaming nations shall awake, And to their centre earth’s old kingdoms shake, Before the loftier throne of heaven, The hand fs raised, the pledge is given, One monarch to obey, one creed to own :— That monarch God—that creed, His word alone. After the oration the followiug hymn was sung by the Sacred Music Society, having been com- posed for the o¢casion by GrorcE P. Morais. A rock in the wilderness welcomed onr sire From bondage far over the dark-rolling sea ; On that holy altar they kindled the fires, Jehovah, which glow in our bosoms for thee. ay blessings descended in sunshine and shower, r rose from the soil that was sown by thy hand ; The mountain and valley rejoiced in thy power, ‘And heaven encircled and smiled on the land. The Pilgrims of old an pec oa have given, Of mild resignation, devotion and love, Which beams like the star in the blue vaultof heaven; A beacon-light hi in their mansion above. In church ral we kneel in our er— Their temple and chi were valley But God ia the same in the aisle or the air, And He is the Rock thet we lean upon still. Oration, ‘The Hon. Mr. Croare then stepped forward, and was received with lo’ lause. He commenced his cration as follows ‘e come again, the chil- dren of the Pilgrims, to remember our fathers. Away from the scenes with which the American portions of their history are associated frist farably and for ever, and in the minds of all men—scenes so unadorned, yet clothed to the moral eye with a charm above ‘and beyond the sphere of taste --the indissoluble rock—that hill from whose side those delicate springs are still gushing---the low, wide, brow: woods—the sheltered harbor—the little istand that welcomed them in their foreign garments from the sea, atid witnessed the rest and worship of that Sabbath day before their first land- Clogs, Bo riage and cildres <urtment of boy's Boots ina away, True By as | Siang te rant fe py ~ ae imits of the fond o! colon! it ee) their pa aod * be jg had [Rem graves=without the limits of that New England eat, af 987 Broadviay, comer of in treet, that is their wider burial place and fitter monu- = REGORY & CAHILL, 967 Broadway. ment—in the heart of this chief city of the Union P4A18 BOOTS ANU LASTS MADE TO ORDER, | into which the feeble band has grown, we come v again to repeat their names one by one—to retrace SUSER, ne 175 BROADWAY, (BasEMENT.) door from Coutt.andt strem Maker of Lasts, begs leave to inform hi ‘amateurs of te ith the Oi ers on invited to try aSuser's bein ‘amish sold. HOOT AND SHOF STORE, JOHN READY respectfully, intorms his friends and the public, that he has commenced business in the above Kine, at No, 99 Nassau street, where he witl ‘ally r ceive and faithflly execute, al ‘ord’rs he may be favored with, on the mor’ reasonable terms for cash. j23¢ NI/-HUMBUG STOREI—LIVE AND LET Pp cametdl WEI At the old exclusive Hoot Store, No. et Chat moor (where the odious practice of calling Spee cr ng the store ia not tolerated), can be obtained Water Hook Boots inne taccured in this ety of the tei Mere ‘delice, freee, bm peoe™ the me, two dollars lower. tn (quality cons'dered ) iu this city. BROADWAY ‘HE fT coat ot Priveagd Broad jini NDE Aomer Repository, <‘Phesubseren infor there friends and the public, trat they” have ojened the above 8 with a new and extensive rtment x Grocerier= the stocl yasistiag principally of Tens of the fuest qualities, selected ‘withthe greatest care from the ast Cargoes. best foung Hyson from:++ «++ Id Hyon “ Traperial Soac! Graves Veeco Ee a he ve Tens, ry aality or pre, and state thie they are selection ; waging ol bornt and «i Is id vd. Algo. geacral tecortivent OF Cotton, Frakes (or the holideys, thing appertain: 3 gseeree freshness, made by ove Meroe alo which warned fat imeo. G. HARRISON & C0”, OT 3 SCIPIO “RT OT RUITS, GROCERIES, TEAS, WINES, "ke —G FN VOuNG. 132 hatham street, offer at wi ms Horeen Era, amar asortment 1 , RE ant Coffee of a | hinds ad qualities. Teas, Groce and Black, oterery d xeription. 0, gtd Winer nn rs, of Varions geades, perio Cherry Brandy. Broneh and’ American Cordials, on dra an ingles, ', Brown Stoat and Pale London, scotch and American Porter, “Paton tenis Seaman Honey. tn met boxes, from Ohio. poe Teg Biers Cason ‘Chocolate, TIFFANY, YOUNG & ELLIS, 259 and 260 Broadway, corner IMPORTERS OF THE VARIOUS FANCY MANUFACTURES OF FRANCE, ENGLAND Warren street, GRNMANY, CHINA, ARENOW RECEIVING A GREAT VARIETY OF GOUDS, the selection of one of their firm, rendering their preseat stock the most varied, lar; in or the other sids of the’ Al that their Goods are made te 0 Europe, mnder the direction of of competent tartes and they £ el iy confident. that witl always be found lower, considering the style, quality and Aimish, than can be boughs elsewhere. pny tcemjned to kesp ther stock always desirable and attrie- ive. they have re-marked all goods that have remained on hand for 12 months armore and lost their original freshness and no- rely, at such low prie ill onsmre le—lower, it ix Delisted, than this Gexeription of goods usally ‘commands in Ube competition avd excitement of an auction room, FURGnAsene or ARtici As ron DAY PRESENTS ave reapeedfal ty mminded thar they will find a better variety ;be bet: bey 4 nd better sited by m king an early application, t to be foand on ‘iy leave to say Vest fabricure of = shoes, hol Fi I} hi L: he er he ‘chausses’ the abor 23 i" the lines of their great character—to look once more upon lineamefts and features on which the grave hag no power—to appreciate their virtues—to trace and recount the courses of their lives, full of eroic deeds—soured by sharpest — trials— crowned by transcendent consequences—to elevate and refresh and touch our spirits by coming for an hour once more into their more immediate sence—such as they were inthe days of their uman agony of glory—(Applause.) Mr. Choate then proceeded, in a similar exceedingly flord and inflated style,to.eulogize the character and achieve- ments of the first settlers of New England. He represented them as the incarnation r . puri- tanism, which two hundred years of persecut and suffering, rfom the time of Wickliff till rier cession of James I., had reared on the English soil. He traced, in brief, the progress of those in- fluences which had advanced them from Prot tants to republicans—and from Englishmen to _pil- grims—and from ne to the founders of a free church, and the fathers of a free people ina new world. He spoke of the embarcation at Delft- haven, and alluded, in highly eulogistic terms, to Weir’s picture of that interesti scene. e perilous voyage across the sea—the landing—the sore trials which were met and bravely undergone —the stern, lofty virtues of the men were spoken of; and then the orator proceeded to announce his position that this was the grand heroic age of this republic. He deemed it a great thing for any people to be abie to look back on such anage, as it passed from stage to stage of its history— whether it looked back in the morning or the eve- ning of its days---whether, as now, in the eager fervor of youth, or in the full strength of manhood, with its breasts full of milk, and its bones moisten- ed with inarrow---or in dotage and decrepitude with the silver cord loosened, and the golden bow broken at the fountain---whether from the age of Pericles or of Plutarch, it was always a great and precious thing to be able to ascend to an age and race--a heroic age and race---which it could justly call its own. By an heroic age and race, he meant not necessarily and exclusively the earliest age or race, but one, the affairs of whose history, and the traits of whose character, and the, extent and permanency ot whose influences, are of a kind and power to be recognized in after time; not merely as respectable and useful, but of a kin to kindle and feed the moral imagination, move the capacious heart, and justify the intelligent won- der of the world. Te meant by a nation’s heroic age, a time distinguished from all other time, not by chronological relations merely, but by a coneur- rence of grand and limpressive agencies, with strik- ing and large results—by some splendid triumph ot man over some great enemy—some great labor— some great evil—some great dangers. A time dis- tinguished from others, when were seen extraordi- nary men performing, extraordinary deeds---a time in which were exhibited uncommon examples of rare and difficult virtue, tried by an exigency that happens only atthe be; ning of new epochs—at the beginning of some new Neg’ of dominion or liberty— when the great bell of time sounds out tance another hour.—(Applause.) Mr. Choate extended considerably this definition of an “heroic age,” and then contended that in all respects the era of the lapding at Jamestown was an “heroic age.” fe next adverted to the influences which had contributed to the formation of the character and virtues of the Pilgrim Fathers, whom he de- fended from the charges of austerity, moroseness and intolerance. To the residence of many of their con’ jes at Geneva during the reign of “Bloody Mat “ty! ie sitbeted « at ardent love of freedom, “ those tnlidlitened notlons of civil Ovérninent which characterized them. ie traced the great civil warin England—the repud- lican constitution in the cabin of the May Flower— the divinity of Jonathan Edwards—the battle of Bunker Hill, and the independence of the thirteen united colonies. Of this puriten race were our Wits fathers. They came in herolé companionship : were their works heroic? To found acolony among a waste, which may grow into a nation where no nation lived before, was, in the judgment of mankind, and intrinsically, of the larger order of hu- man achievements, The chief of men, said Lord Bacon, were the conditories tmnerivrum, the founders ol a onthe ites of the earth, in which great numbers of hu- man might live together socially and in peate, Init her. by ten thohsand noble ties, each stronger an links of iron—to make & national existence whereby by Phatp and be helped in bearing the various bur- jens of life—wherein they might improve and enjoy, and impart improvement and enjoyment. To build to oct pyramid, to write an epic, to form ‘philosophy, to win a battle or defend a alty, wore reat thi ngs 5 Dit hothing it comparison with this. He, ther, who set a colony on foot did an heroic deed ; he designed all the fred and all the gloryof which inthe series of ages, it should be the means ; and he should be judged rather by the grandeur of the ultimate design than by the cha- racter of the immediate motive—which might or might not have been yer fied or very herole (cheers) But re the ininibdlate motive wis dv dxcellent ay the ulll- mate sticcess Was splendid and inspiring, then so far it was entitled to rational admiration. He distinguished then the enterprise of our Pilgrim Fathers, first by the character of its immediate motive ; and that motive was twofold. First, it was simply a sense of religious duty.— To the extent of this oure they came hither to glorify God by obeying his word. Thelr next motive was ade- sire for freedotn—fretdom frém itrinecéssary restraints, which was tyranny—freédom of soul. These, then, were their true motives—the sunse of religious duty and the spirit of liberty—great sentimeuts, whether in men or na- tions—great sentiments, pregnant with celestial fire.— (Cheers.) ‘The orator here sketched in his imagination a picture of the voyage of the pilgrims, inspired as they Were by these high Principe all it sdid that he also distinguished tei terptise, above all others, by certain peculiarities in the trials which they encountered upon the waters of the new world. The first generationscame here in 1620. In fifty years more he supposed that most, ifnot allofthem, had passed away; if not, certainly their time of active labor and responsible ection h#d béén ac- complished. Locking, tht, mere at the actual achieve- ments of that generation, by the lights of our own time, perhaps ourffirst im; would be one of pity and ad- miration at the di and intensity with which they suf- fered, which were the grand in, ents in their heroism. It was on these peculiarities in the trials which they en- countered that he should dwell. The mournful trials and the extremity of suffering which marked the first few years after their arrival were familiar to all, and therefore it was not these be designed to repeit, dithotigh he iticidentally glanced at some with considerable power. A good deal of this peculiarity arose from the total absence of all the passions which might be Saeki to Have stimulated them to anger, revenge, thirst for blodd, lor ove of fame. It was the want of these charactetistics which made this stupendons achievement of our fathers heroic indeed, in- asmuch as they mide tse of none of these aids to excite exertion. He'ailmiited tht transaction therefore in all its aspects, and, after an eloquent contrast between the two, he declared his conviction that it was accompanied with more features of true heroism than were the motives of Leonidas andthe three hundred Spartans who defended the pass of poles 0 Bt the invading Persians.— To their actions and principles he attributed the present h and independent position of this Republic—a position which was received with much applause. It wasa great thing for a nation to be able to look hack upon a race and an age in which the intelligent mind must realise the idea of true heroism, These heroic men and womten, there- fere, who had bten rémbved from us, ought not to be per- mitted to look down ujion a degenerate posterity. We must consider that the past was as nothing but as we were quickened by its examples, warned by its yoice, and assisted by its experience. The sleeping the dead were but as_pictures, but by gazing long and intent- ly Upén them we might ourselves insensibly pass intc something like the likeness of the departed ; we might learn atleastto imitate their labors and aspire to their immortality—(great cheering ) The benediction was then pronounced by Dr. Adams, and the assemblage dispersed. The Dinner. No arrangements whatever were made by the stewards for the accommodation of the Press. Ow- ing, however, to the courtesy of Messrs. Coleman and Stetson, our reporters were furnished with a table, and are thus enabled to give a report of the proceedings. About two hundred and sixty gentlemen sat down to dinner, which was served in that style which has made the names of Coleman and Stet- son famous all the World over. The chair was oc- cupied by the Hort. Moses ii. Grinnell, supported on his right by Mr. Choate, atid on his left by Mr. Webster. At the head of the table we observed also the Rev. Drs. Wainwriglit and Adams, his ho- nor the Mayor, Commodore Stringham, the Hon. Mr. Alden, member of the British Parliament for Leeds, the Rev. Mr. Bellows, Hon Mr. Evans, Judge Catron, and other distinguished individu: Onthe table, imntediately in front of the chair- man, Was a small portion of the granite of which Plymouth Rock is composed. The galleries of the dining room were filled with ladies, among whom we noticed several of the loveliest women of which our city can boast. Amongst them were Mrs. D. Webster, Mrs. Ed. Curtis, Mrs. N. P. Willis, Mrs. fiaior Irvine, Mrs. 8. Draper, Judge Bayard’sfami- ly, Mrs. George Plitt, and last, not least, the ladies of the house, with many others, whose names we were not fortunate enough to learn. After the cloth was remoyed, the Chairman stated that many distinguishea individualshad been invited, some of whom were unable to attend. Letters of apology had been received from them, and amongst others from Mr. Van Buren and Mr. Adams, but he did not deem it necessary to read them, and therefore called upon the company to fill for the first regular toast— “The day we celebrate—an anniversary more widely honored as freedom and Christianity advances.”—(Dran! with enthusiasm.) The toast was— “New England—Her freedom and strength are fidelity to law and devotion to God.”—(Applause ) Mustc—Yankee Doodle. ‘The next toast was-- “The Genereus Hollanders—The son of New England will have forgotten his fathers when he ceases to remem- ber their protectors in exile.”— (Three times three ) Mvsic—Pilgrim Fathers. ‘The next toast was— “The City of New York—She cannot fail to be a great city in wealth and population; may she be au ican city in heart and in character.”"—(Great applause.) ‘The Ma: retur ied thanks.—The encomium which the ou 1 tu «us eity he represented, and the hearty hich the sentiment manner iu h m received, was due tothe city. That the city of New. York always would be an American city, He who made her knew, and none but He could prove t— (cheers)—American in her attachment to our institutions, A) in her attach. ment to the very essenve of our institutions which had made us, and adhering to which-we could alone ex- ist eitheras acity or a nation—(cheers.) After havin, said thie, and seeing many eloquent gentlemen ran along the table, probably it would be well, and he had no doubt would meet the wishes of the company if he sat down to give more time to those whom they expected to teat (cres of “go on.”) He wonld go on, then— (cheers.) He was glad they had asked him to go on, Not long since he saw a picture—and his mind’s eye, si had been sitting at this festive board hod been a g that pic. ture ; he alluded to Weir's picture of the Embarkation of the Emigrants—(cheers.) While his mind yet looked upon that picture, he had been observing and studying the picture of fact that he now saw before him, ‘The pic- ture before him showed that ‘the inspiration of the artist notonly cnabled him to pourtray the religious expres- sionof'the Pastor, but he certainly knew who the mo- thern of them were—(hear.) ‘The looking upon that pic- ture and tpon this, going back for some years previous. to the event that it pourtrayed—and following up the time from the date of that event to the picture we had be. fore us a moral truth which no intellectual being should disregard. For years previously to that hallowed band deserting their home, their kindred, their property, and casting themselves upon the waters for the purpose of ona- bling them to worship their God in their own way, they had been oppressed and persecuted. They had been opyressed-—had they 1 No, not they; but human nature in general had been oppressed and persecuted (hear) — because they worshipped God in a different way from those who surrounded them—(hear.) Let him fey? an) be understood. History and truth required he should assert that although their’ religion was then persecuted, there were those who worshipped in their faith, who had not been ruiltless of persecuting others who worshipped in another faith ; but they left their country to worship God as they chose ; and we saw upon that deck the expression of a heavenly determination that those individual all risks, all hazards, encountering all obstacles to be pe mitted to bere | God as their conscience told them He should be worshipped. And what did we see here? .A picture—where there were many F cdorgat each of whom worshipped God as they chose, and who worshipped Him differently. There were many present whose ancestors were persecutors in their day ; and yet we now had a country where, no matter what a man’s religion might be, ‘as permitted to worship as he chose, uninfluenced, palled by the prejudices of others—(cheers.) And that country was the most flofrishing country upon the face of the earth—and it was that moral to which he h. ed to call attention He would conclude by giving timent—" Religious toleration, the foundation of political liberty, and the foundation of individual independence, af- fluence and happiness.” (Loud cheers.) ‘The fifth regular toast was— “The State of New bphicretp AS Exrcelsior reats on no firmer pillar than the public faith.” (Drank with much “Phe following ode by|Rufus Dawes, was then sung by would ru) é vétetan Brough, in his own glorious style, to the air be “ God Save the Queen” :— Sons of New England sires! Whe do your altar fires Kame up on high ; Why from your festal board, Wakes the loud anthem, pour’d Joyous, with one ac ing’d for the sk. Not for the voice that spoke ‘Triumph—when Britain’s yoke Burst with your chains es brave Not for the h Bleeding by C' ‘Not for the patriot’s grave, Wake ye your strains, But for the Pilgrim band, They who from Leyden’s land Dared the rough sea ; Braving the ocean vast, Seorning the wintry blast, So they might find; at last, Room for the free. Hark, how the thutidet pedts ! See, how the brave ship reels, Whirl'd in the brine! Courage! the God that wears Storm-robes, the good man spares; Pilgrim !—he hears yotir pray drs,— Joy tg yout line ! Nobly the May-flower bows, While the dark wave she ploughs ; On tothe West ; °Till, from the tempest’s shock, Proudly she lands her flock— Where on old Plymouth Rock, Freedom found rest. Lo! from yourstarry sphere, Spirits in light appear, Glorious, but few ; Pilgrims! we see you now— Fathers ! to you we bow— Hear, then, your children’s vow, Still to be tre ! Join, brothers, heart and hatid, Sons of the Pilgrim-band ! Swear nowmo be All that your fathers sciught— Allgthat their virtue wrought— 0 shall your sons be taught How to be free ! The next toast was— “The United States—united for the purposes announ- ced in theDeclaration of Independence and preamble to the national constitution, and for no other purposes incompat- able with these.” Drank with tremendous enthusiasm. Auld Lang Syne.” PH .» President of the St. George's So- ciety, returned thanks, as the representative of those so1 of Old England who clustered here around St.George and charity. He begged to uckitowlodg, with grateful feclings, the sentiment of esteem and regard exptessud in the toast. He esteemed it no common privilegé to be ablé to unite with the sons of New E1iglind in the celebration ofa day interesting to the world at large. Such a celebration, even he, a3,a}prejudiced son of Ol England, could regard as a moral banquet, (Cheers.) It were vain to dtiy tLat in the conduct of the Pilgrims there was a moral sublimity not surpassed by any men who figure on the pages of history. And their heroic deeds would be forgotten only when aay itself would be forgotten. (Cheers) And why could not he unite with the sons ot New England on that occasion? Old England was not ashamed to acknowledge that New England tridmphd. (Cheets.) Arid why should the sons of two countries differ in sentiment or feeling, When théir presto boast was a common origin? (Great applause.) G was ing fie the or] eco be stich meetings ee slightly bins at first, byt own ex; NCE CO! state thal thay, fosam ‘at last the neat of on luting friendship. And not only ina persorial point of view was such association useful. The influences thus excited had no small effect in promoting the principles of peace all the world over. (Applause.) Mr. F. concluded by giving “The enduring union of Charitable Societies.” Drank with loudapplavse, Ricuarp Inwix. Esq. returned thanks on the part of the St. Andrew’s Society, in eloquent and appropriate terms. Hejclaimed kindred*with that society. The principles for which the pilgrims suffered, were the same lor which his ancestry fought and bled on their own so! Mr. I. concluded by giving ‘asa sentiment :—"The pi ciples of the Pilgrim Fathers—may their influence be as extensive as the fame of the Pilgrfms themselves is im- perishable.” (Drank with much applausé,) C. W. Fang, Esq., President of the German Society also returned thanks. The Sons of New England rejoiced in the soubriquet of the ‘ Universal Yankee Nation”—(a it )and they did well todo so; for westward and westward farther still they were carrying their empire— (Cheers. it.was one of the deigh fost traits in the cha- racter 0} eons, hud dima . fection for all emigrants who came to these shores, deter- mined to make it the home of their children and children’s children—(Loudgapplause.) The emigrant, it i#true, still cherishes true feelings for hisffatherland, but like those of the bride who follbws tht husband of her choice, who still retains fond recolltctions of her loved home— (Tremendous applause.) Mr. F. concluded by giving “New England—the surest guarantee of the stability of the Union.” D.C. Coroes, Eeq. responded on, behalf of the St. Da vid’s] Society. In looking around that board he saw the re- presentatives of various revered and honored saints—(a langh.) They had heard of St. George, that chivalrous saint, who went about with his burnished helmet and dan- cing plume, relieving all distressed damsels and spittin dragons as a cook does capons for dinner—(a laugh.) An they had heard of St. Andrew, who by his vigils and fast. ing taught himgelf to go without adinner. And their was their dear brother of Germany, whose saint was supposed tohave invented printing hough that was somewhat questioned—(laughter.) But no matter who invented it it has been the great engineof civilization—and whether St. Herman, the devil, or Dr. Faustus—(laughter) had that merit,it was certain that by it in the course of time, the world’ had been knocked into pi. (Much laughter.) Next came—who ?,why, their dear saint of St Nicholas, and would any body then deny who had tasted of the hospitalities of the sons of New Amsterdam, that Saint Nicholas was indeed the author of a miracle? Who that had seen the stocking drawn from the taper leg of the fair matron, or more capacious hose of the venerable grand! ther, danglin; bonl yt at night, and filled in the mornin; who that had seen the ecstatic hope which filled th som of the children in anticipation of the annual visit of their dear Sqint—could deny that 8t. Nicholas wrought miracles? (Cheers.) But his*(Mr. C.’s) brethren of St. David, who traced their ancestry farther back even than tradition—(roars of laughter.) well acquainted with all that has been done in time, and a little before time, they were quite at a loss to acconnt where, how and when that saint, whom we have so recently canonized, had crept in- to thecalendar. (Luughter.) They had in’ fact received with some doubt the claim of St. Jonathan. (Great laugh- ter.) But although not recorded in any black letter man- uscript or moth-eaten volume, yet the miracles of St. Jon- athan were to be read, of all'men. (Cheers) His mira- cle began when the pilgrims first kneeled on the deck of the Mayflower and asked from (iod protection and assistance across the broad Atlantic. (Cheers) That miracle was working through all the time when the sons of the pil- rims were redeeming the wilderness, and were protecting themselves and their children from a savage foe. It was working when petition, remonstrance, reason, had been exhausted—when the sword was drawn, and the scabbard thrown away—that sword neverto be sheathed but in vic- tory or the grave. (Loud applause.) And then when that victory was accomplished, when law, happiness and rder reigned throughout the iand—then did the spirit of Pt St. Jon: soar aloft, and look down with a smile of complacent triumph—then did he exclaim my miracle is brs rma reat applause.) Mr. C. gave in conclu- New England—The home of the f the greatest number.’--(Drask with foud spplateey © Dr. Many, President of the St. Nicholas Society, re- plied to the sentiment in a brief and appropriate address, observing that the people of New England and those of New Amsterdam, had many things in common, which marked their eventiul and too often disastrous career.— Though thcy were branches plucked from different trees, and transplanted three or four thousand miles from home, they cach had flourished. grown, and become great trees, till the fowls of the air could find lodging under them ; they had become, as it were, a great nation, and they were combined together as ene family. He concluded by giving, as 8 tonat— “The Expansive Charity of the Sons of New England— which scorns seographical limits, and which ministers not only to the physical but to the moral wents of suffer. ing humanity.” (Loud cheers.) xt proposed the next toast, which was— ‘The Orator of the Day--a true son of New England, whose genius and character illustrates the value of @ pil- grim ancestor.” (Loud cheers.) Mr. Crroare returned thanks. He felt himself entirely nnequolto the task of making a speech. The truth was, that the great Broadway Tabernacle, which bore the same relation to other buildings which the great city of New York bore to all other cities between Cape Cod and Queboc—(Cheers)—has certainly used me up; and I would have been glad had it not served the audience in the same way —(Laughter.) 1 will not, therefore, make aspeech, but propose a toast, which, to avoid the acci- dents of hospitality, I have reduced to writing.—(Rours of laughter) ‘The truth was, that with all the pride you have in the great city of New York, yet we of the pilgrim stock never can get it out of our heads that the Dutch did bribe the captain of the Mayflower to bring away our fathers from your lovely island tothe iron bound harbor of Laughter and cheers.) But I should n't wonder his story had no foundation at all, but some spice of lousy towards this great city and this great State. d if there was alittle envy at the bottom wouldn't it be most excusable thing in the world? When the Pi grims landed at Plymouth there were about three hund and twenty-five of these gen Hollanders, patient industrious, eettled en this island of Manhattan, and be- sides them there were not witain your imperial limits a single spot or memorial of European civilization, And now see—sve the city of New York, the capital of a State containing more than two millions of inhabitants—herself a population of Upwards of 300,000.— Importing for more than ten millions of le—a harbor in which all the na- val warlike, and all the mercantile navies of the world might float together at any timo—and a river, that might bring down a succession of freights that would sink every single ship that might be floated in your harbor. Thuis stands she to-day, wit! one hand grasp, the harvests of the teeming west, and with the other, Venice, expous- ing the everlasting sea. (Tremendous applause.) See her better than this, the home and patron queen of art and lit- erature, and genius—remembering wisely, and always, that there is a better and more durable glory than even that which gilds and beams from the throne of the whole mere commercial world—mindiul, wisely, thatthe means of material greatness, though a great thing, is not every thing—mindful of that glorious sentiment of the poet— “Winds blow and waters roll, Strength to the brave, and power and beauty, Yet in themselves are nothing—our decree Spoke laws to thew, said by the soul alone— By the soul--by the soul shall we ever Be great and free!” (Great applause,) Meditating on these things, Mr. Fresideni, I think a little envy might have been excused to us, and yet I assure ‘ou that when we contemplate it allsuch a sentiment is swallowed up ii linitely more noble— “Neon equidem ini —miror magis.” (Cheers.) But now, as I see agreat speech in a capacious heart and eye, interrupting me and soliciting your attention, as tonching this matter of theDutch having bribed theCaptain about which | believe not a word, let me say that you have got no great advantage over us after all. (Laughter and cheers.) Sir, I offer you this sentiment. “New York, the city and the State, not given to the Pil- grims of the first generation to settle, she become in another sense the ends possession of their descen- dants for ever, by affording tos@ many of them a happy and honored home—to so many the means of princely wealth—to so many a theatre of genius—and to ull some criuses of paternal and patriotic pride in the commercial and literary glory of acommon country.” (Drank with great applause.) Sonc—'* My own Native Land”—(Cheers.) ‘The Parsiornt next gave— “The Clergy of New England—The teachers of truth from the original fountain, and always the friends of ra- tional and regulated liberty.” The Rey. Dr_ Warnwniout returned thanks iu the name of the clergy ofall denominations. In the course of his re- miirks the Kev. gentleman said that the orator of the day, in his eloquent address this morning, had said that at Ge- neva there was discovered a government without a king, and a church without a bishop—(Cheers.) Notwith- standing the strong testimony of approbation paid to this sentiment, were this a proper arena, and if even the orator of the day were to throw down his ginailet on this point, he (Dr. W.) would not hesitate to take it up, and say there could not be achurch without a bishop—(Hear, hear.) This, however, was not the place for such topics. Thank God stich controversies were banished from this place, and moreover, ii the whole length and breath of the land, when the clergy were given as a toast, no privileged order could stand up and assume to themselves the honors con- ferred by that name. Notwithstanding all their religious opinions, the clergy were, in the eye of the country, one; ey had common rights; and if they knew their true in- terests, they would rally, ax one man, round the constitu. tion, and consider it as the rock of their civil anu religious liberty—(Cheers.) Around the altar of friendvhip and be- nevolence which this society had reured, all the clergy were able to join as one man, and feel that they were bre. thren, having one common object in view—the cause of tharity.. He hoped, then, that when they went forth into the World, they might all feel the sentiment of the Apostle — Now abideth these thee, faiih, hope and charity, but the greatest of these is charity”—(Cheers.) Tho Presper next gave— “ Plymouth Rock--the foundation stone of the temple of religious liberty !” (Great cheering.) To which succeeded the toast of— “ The Commion Schools of New England—the safeguard nd pledge of her intelligence and virtue.” (Great ap- jause,) \3 ‘The Rey. Dr. Brut, in responding to this toast, referred tothe excellent system of education adopted in the com- mon schools of New England. Popular education, he contended, was the best safeguard of popular freedom,and the best leveller, because it always levelled upwards.— (Cheers) ) ‘There was a time when it was said thai an inn and a blacksmith’s shop constituted a village; New Eng- land had gone further ; she had added a church and a school house, an example which he hoped all the nations upon earth would follow. He concluded by giving— “The Brick School Houses and the white Churches of New Englind”—Time and trial, he added, can only im- prove theircomplexion. (Cheers.) The Parsiwwent next gave— “ Thé Pilg¢rims—whose character and designe are dis- closed in what New England is, and has been able to ac- compli.” fe IR. The Pr t said the next was the last regular toast: “The New England Wife—-not an appendage to the establishmenit, but part of the heart and soul ot the New England man” (Enthusiastic cheering ) 5 : ‘The Presper said the presence of a distinguished in- Id a high place in the counsels of the na- tion, led him, (the Present) as an act of justice to that in- dividual, to refer to him in the first volunteer toast of the ening. He would the: e “The State of Maine- ed to be the largest of the cluster of New England States, and not to be behind her ters in moral and intellectual respectability.” (Cheers.) Hon. Mr, Evans returned thanks for that honorable mention of the youngest in the sisterhood of the Union.— True, she presented the largest territory, but that did not constitutea State. Thrice honored would she be if she ‘ve not bebind her sisters an intellectual and moral great- ness, for then, Indeed, aho woul honored and remembered. (Cheers.) She was settled al- most entirely from the old and honored colony, self, that of Massachusetts Bay, and still more from New Hamp- shire, an origin of which she need not be ashamed, when she recollects what New Hampshire has given not to New England alone, but to America. (Tremendous ap plause.) He was about to add that New Hampshire was the birth place of the eloquent advocate and accomplished statesman who was their guest on that occasion. (Loud cheers.) Such being the origin of that State, may she not claim something of the honor and glory of New 7 land! (Cheers) There he would w@lingly stop, but something must be pardoned to the day and the occasion. One of the toasts had reference to what’ New England is and what she had done, A reverend gentleman near him had spoken of what she is. He would inquire what she has done? Itwas on Plymouth Rock that we first plant- ed those seeds which ‘are now springing up over the broad continent. In what mart was not New England ienterprize exhibited—in what form was not her talent— in what pulpit was{uot her piety? And not only on this soil, but on all others, where had not New England en- terprize been exhibited? In all the walks of literature, science, and the arts, had not New England discovered herself?—(Cheers.) Mr. Evans went on at some length to eulogize the character and achievements of the pil- tim fathers and their descendants, and concluded by of fering a sentiment. The Vice Presipxxt here begged to add, by way of postscript to the sentiment just drank— y “George Evans—the main support of the finances of this nation. There is more of the main-stay in the State of Maine than many in this State suppose.” This was received with, roars fo! laughter and drank wi th great applause. sorcr, Griswoun, Esq, then rose and said—Mr. Presi- dent, I have the honor of proposing the health of a distin- wished guest on this occasion, A gentleman who has fone more for his country than any other manof his time. He has killed nullification, and saved his country from a war with a nationto whom she is now united—and lon; she continue united—in the bonds of amity and friend- ship.—(Cheers.) J give you— “Dasixt Weustex, he has given himself to his country, and nothing but his country. Nothing could possibly exceed the exthusiasm which this sentiment excited. ‘The whole company started to their feet and united in aloud and long continued burst of applause, ‘The toast was drank with nine cheers and one cheer more ; and after that a gentleman at the foot of the table rose and said— “Mr. President—we hereabouts insist that the toast be given from our end of the table, We don't mean to be Cheated out of our rights.” This was receivedwith loud laughter,ond the sentiment was, in accordance with the s iggestion repeated by the Vice President, and drank again with an enthusissm equalled only by that with which it was received before. Mr. Wenster then rose amidst most enthusiastic ap- plause, and addressed the mecting nearly as follows :— Mr. President, 1 have a grateful duty to perform, in ac- knowledging the kindness of the sentiment which has been expressed towards me ; and yet, 1 must say gentle Ay ms this occasion under the conscious- ness that I may probably disappoint high raised, too high- ly raised, expectations." In the scene of this evening, and in the scene of this day, my part isa hamble one. F can enter into no competition with the flow of genius of more eloquent gentlemen, learned and reverend, whe have ad- dressed this assembly. I may perform, gentlemen, the humbler, but the sometimes useful duty of contrast, so that the dark ground of the pi suftice to. bring out those brilliant colors—( cheers.) I must receive, gentlemen, the sentiment propos- ed by the worthy and distinguished citizens of New York before me, as intended to communicate the idea that as a citizen of New England, a son of New England, a child, a creature of New England, I may be yet supposed to enter. tain, in some degree, that enlarged view of my duty as a citizen, and as apublic man, that may in some small mea- sure commend me to the regard of the whole country.— must say, gentlemen, that a compliment of that Ind could proceed from no source more agreeable to my own feelings,than from the gentleman who proposed it—himself an eminent merchant, the member of a body of eminent merchants, in acity of eminent merchants,known neers out the world for intelligence end judgment—(cheers.) 1 the more especially feel this, gentlemen, because whether I view the present state of things, or recur to the history of the past, I can, in neither case be ignorant how much of that profession, and its distinguished members, from the early days of our history, have contributed to’ make the country what it is, and the government what it is—-(cheers) Gentlemen, the free nature of our institutions, the popular form of this government, which have come duwa to us from the Rock of Plymouth, unite talent and enterprise, and public spirit, and public effort from every class, mak: ing up the great body of the Republic, and the country has received benefits in all its history, in all its ex- igencies, of the most eminent and striking character rom persons of the class to which my friend before me belougs—(cheers.) Who will ever forget that the first name signed to the ever memorable and glorious Declaration o} Independence was the name of John Han. cock, a merchant of Boston ?—(Loud cheers.) Who will ever forget either, that in the most disastrous d Revolution, when penury was the characteri: treasury of the country, with unpaid navies and unpaid it was a merchant, Robert Morris of Philadelphia, who by the noble sacrifice of his own fortune, as well as the exertion of groat financial ability, sustained and sup ported the wise men of the country in council and the brave men of the country upon the field ’ Nor are there wanting more recent instances pleasure to see near me, and near my friend w! pressed the sentiment to which I am now ondeayoring to answer, the son of an eminent merchant of New England, Mr. Goodhue—(oud cheers)—an earl Senate of the United States; always csealiel always re- spected, in whatever belonged tu the duty and the means of putting into operation the financial and commercial “y em of the country—-\Appiause.) And the mention of the father of my friend recails to my mind the name of his great colleagues, his daily society, the Hamiltons and the Hawes, trusted and beloved of Washington, con- sulted upon Secasions, connnected with’ the adminisiration of the finances, the establishment of the Treasury department, the ariaaitics of the first rates snd duties, and every thing that ged to the commmercial system of jthe United Stutes—George Cabot of Massachu- setts.—And { will take this occasion to say, gentlemen, that there isno truth more developed and established in the history of the United states, from the formation of the constitution to the present time, than that the mercantile interest, the great commercial mass of the community, whose affairs connect them severally with every State the Union, and with all the nations of the earth, whose ca- reer and profession, gives them a sort of nationality of character—there is no class of men among us, who irom the beginning have stood stronger or firmer for whatever was intended, or whatever tended, to preserve the Union of the States, andthe happy form of government under which we live. (Cheers.) “The constitution of the Uni- ted States in regard to various municipal regulations and local interests, left the States, individual, discon nected, isolated : it luft them their own codes of criminal law, it'left them their own systems of municipal regula- tion ; but there was one great interest, one great concern, which, from the very nature of the ease, was no longer to be left under the inanagement of thirteen or afterward twenty and now twenty six States, but committed, neces- sarily committed, to the care, the protection, the wisdom, und the regnlation of one government, and that is the go- it has been declared, of the commerce of the (Hear, hear) ‘There is no commerce of ; there is no commerce of Massachusetts, Alaba- ma orVirginia—all and singular in regate—in all its parts itis the commerce of the United States, regulated at home by one uniform system of law under the author} ty of the general government, and protected abroad by the lag of the United States, the # pluribus unum,” and maintained, it need be, by the power of the general go- vernment, all over the world. (Tremendous cheers.) ‘There is, therefore, gentlemen, nothing more binding, neo- Id constitute a State to he | Be thing that makes us more cohesive, there is nothing that more repels all the tendencies to disunion and dismem- berment, than this great common, and, I may say, over- whelming interest of our one commerce—one general sys- tem of trade and navigation connecting us with one ano- ther, and connecting us with all the nations upon the earth. (Cheers.) It is not the flag of a particular State that is seen upon the Pacific seas, or in the Baltic, or inthe Indian Ocean. (Tremendous cheers.) Who knows or hears of your proud State, or of my proud State? Who knows or hears of any thing of the exports of the North or of the South? or among the antipodes, in the wilds of the West, in the Eastern or the Western seas 7— Whoever is tNure that hears, or knows any thing of an American ship or any American enterprise ofa commer- cial character that does not bear the impress of the Ame- rican Uniun with it? (Loud cheers.) It would be a pre- sumption of which I cannot be guilty, gentlemen, for me to imagine for a moment that among the gifts which New England has made to our common country, | am among more than one of the most inconsiderable, 1 readily bring to mind not only the great men I have mentioned, but those whe have gone before me, and who now sleep with their fathers, distinguished in the Revolution—distinguish- ed in the formation of the Constitution and in its early ad- ministration—always distinguished. I shrink in just and conscious humiliation before their hed ters and their established renown ; and eli that | venture to y, and all that I venture to hope may be true in the senti- ments of my friends, may be that so far as mind and purpose —so far as intent and design are concerned, 1 may be considered one of those Chpable of im the whole country of which | am a member witha proper, comprehensive and patriotic regard for it. (Cheers.)— We all know that the objects nearest are objects dearest tous, Family afections, neighborhood affections, social relations—they touch us nearest; but whoever shall be able rightly to adjust the gradation of his affections, and to love his friends, and his neighbors, and his city, as he ought, fulfils the benediction of the philosophic pone benediction belonging to hin—" Qui dedieit quid pet debes Gentlemen, it hes el quid amicis.” (Cheers. been my lot and my fortune ularly to have acted in public fife, either for the good or evil of my country—to e concerned entirely wit! lad hxc which, with in the limita of its constitutional power, exercises juris- diction over all the States and all the peopl My friend at the end of the table, upon my left Colden), hes spoken pleasantly to us to-night of t) ited miracles of Saints. ina sober sense, in # sense of deep convic- tion, I say that the emergence of this country from. British dominion, and its union under the present form of government, beneath the general constitution of the country, constitutes, J will not say one of the most fortunate, but the most admirable, the most felicitious occurrences that have fallen to the lot of man. (Cheers.) Circumstances have wrought out for os a state of things which in other regions philosophy has dreamed of, and theory has proposed, and speculation has sug} , but which man has never been able to accomplish. I mean the government of a great nation, overa vastly extended portion of the regions of the earth, by meansof local in- stitutions fur local purposes, and general institutions for purposes. 1 know not in the history of the world, notwithstanding the great age of Greece—notwithstand- ing any thing that we read in ancient history,and sprely in despite and contrast of every thing in modern history, I know nothing so suitable on the whole to the great in- terests of a great people spread extensively overa large portion of theearth as a power of ination for jocul and municipal purposes, with not a confederacy— nota loose bond of union, but a limited itive govern- mentfor general purposes, for the whole—(epplause.)— We may derive eminent proof of this ‘ruth from the past and the present. What see we to-day in the agitations upon the otber side of the Atlantic ? 1 speak of them of course without expressing any opinion whateyeron an question of politics in a country not our own. But | spei of them as an occurrecne, which shows the great ex rienced utility—I may say the necessity of local legi tion- If in a country on the other side of the water there be some whe desire a scverence of one. portion of the empire from another, under a proposition of repeal, there are others who propose a continuance of that rela- tion under a federated system—and what is that? No more and no less than an approximation to that system under which we live—which for local municipal purpo- ses shall have a local legislation, and for general purpo: ses @ general government.—(Applause.) becomes the more important when we recollect that the United States are spread over so many degrees of latit are subject to such a variety of climate—and that necessarily reat diversity of relations must subsist between its i abitants Let me ask whether the Legislature of New York could wisely pass laws for the government of Lou- isiana, or whether the government of Louisiana could laws for Pennsylvania or New York? Every body witlsay “No.” And yet the interests of New York, and’ Pennsylvania, and Louisiana, in whatever concerns their relations between themselves, and their I re- lations with all the States of the world, are found to be perfectly well provided for, and perfectly congruously ad- justed, if] may say so, by committing to one government the result of the general relations among them.—(Cheers.) I confess, gentlemen, that having been in my humble ca- reer in public life—now closed altogether—when emplo; ed in any portion of public service connected wit general government, | have contemplated, as the great object of every proceeding, not only the particular object of the moment, or the exigency of the occasion, but the preservation of this system—for 1 do consider it is so much the result of circumstances, and so much of it is due to the fortunate concurrences, as well as to the saga- city, of the great men acting upon those occasions, that it isan experiment of euch remarkable and renowned suc. cess that he is a fool and a madman who would wish to try that experiment a second time—(cheers). I see t § and we all see that the descendants of the Puritans w’ landed upon the Rock of Plymouth—the followers of Ra- leigh, who settled Virginia and North Carolida, he who lives where the truncheon of empire. so to speak, was boane by Smith, the inhabitant of ia, he "ho settled under the auspices of France upon the banks of the Mis- sissippi, the Swedes of Delaware, the Quakers of Penn- ‘ania—all find, in this day, their common interest, their common protection, their common glory under the united government, which leaves them all, nevertheless, in the administration of their own municipal and local affairs te the Frenchmen, or Swedes, or Quakers, oa what- soever they choose to be—(loud cheers). And when one considers that this system of government, | will not say has produced, because God and nature and circumstances have had an’ agency in it ; but I will say that when it Is considered thet this system has not prevented, but has rather encow: the growth of th le of the country from three millions, upon the glorious Fourth of July, 1776, to seventeen milhons. Now, who is there he will say, upon this hemisphere now—nay, who is t) er» that will stand up in either hemisphere—who is tl er: in any part of the world, that will say that t+ great ‘experiment of a united jublic has failed in America? (Loud cheers.) And yet, I know, -ntlemen—I feel that this united system is Bold together byg strong tendencies" to union, at the same time that it is kept from too much tendency to con- solidation by @ strong tendency to support their own power and consideration. And for one glorious half cen- tury it has kept us, as we have been kept, and has made us What we are. (Cheers) But, gentlemen, I must not allow myself to pursue this topic. It is a sentiment so commonly repeated by me upon all public occasions and private occasions, and every where, it is not in very good taste to dwell upon it now.— It is the union of these Stotes, it is the sys tem of government under which we live, beneath the Constitutiou of the United States happily framed, wisely adopted, skilfully administered upon the whole for fifty years. It is mainly that, I say, that gives us power athome and credit abroad, (Cheers.) And for one, T never stopped to consider the power or wealth, or great- ness ofthe State, I tell you, Mr. Chairman, I care nothin for the metropolitan. ie at all. Delaware anil Rhode Island are as high in my regards as New York. In popu lation, in power, in the governmont over us, you have a greater share. You would have the same share if you were dwindled into Stat “it le only be erefore, as a State sovereignty, it is only Tain Wen Tork lea vast portion ofthe whole American ple : and in regard to the people we must feel respect and honor, but among these ar ae there is no pre- ference ; there is nothing high nothing low ; every State is independent and every State is equal ; and if we depart from this great principle then we are no longer one people ; but we are back again before the confederation, and upon that state of things in which inequality pro- duced all the evils which befel us in times past. (Tremen- dous cheers,) Mr. President, { wish then, without pursuing these thong! ithout especially attempting to produce any firm impression by them, to take this occasion to an swer my friend who the sentiment, and to Tespont to it by saying that whoever would serve his country in this our day, with whatever degree of talent ,