of our revolutionary army; who, by many other important services, had so just a claim to the revered title of father of his country. It was natural that the presence of a citizen, so respected and beloved, who had so eminently contributed to the establishment of this government, and to whom its administration, in the commencement, had been committed, should inspire an enlightened, a virtuous, and free people, with unlimited confidence in its success; and it is a cause of general felicitation, and joy to us all, to find that thirty years successful experiment, have justified that confidence, and realized our most sanguine hopes in its favour. Yes, fellow citizens, we instituted a government for the benefit of all; a government which should secure to us the full enjoyment of all our rights, religious and civil; and it has been so administered. Let us, then, unite in grateful acknowledgements to the Supreme Author of all good, for extending to us so great a blessing. Let us unite in fervent prayers, that He will be graciously pleased to continue that blessing to us, and to our latest posterity.

I accepted the trust to which I have been called by my fellow citizens, with diffidence, because I well knew the frailty of human nature, and had often experienced my own deficiencies. I undertook this Tour, with a view, and in the hope, of acquiring knowledge, which might enable me to discharge my various and important duties, with greater advantage to my country, to which my whole mind, and unwearied efforts, shall always be directed. In pursuing objects so dear to us all, I rely with confidence on the firm and generous support of my fellow citizens, throughout our happy Union.

JAMES MONROE.

"The following address was presented to the President, by a Committee consisting of the following gentlemen-Henry Dearborn, Benjamin Austin, Thomas Melville, William Little, Russel Sturgiss, John Brazer, Jacob Rhoades, Esquires, and Doct. William Ingalls."

TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

SIR-The recent session of the Legislature of Massachusetts being closed previously to your arrival in Boston, the Republican members of both branches are deprived of the pleasure of personally paying their respects to the President of the United States. Those members, therefore, who were present at the adjournment, together with a number of their brethren in Boston, have deputed us to offer you their congratulations on your arrival, and to express their high regards for official and personal character.

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We are happy, sir, in having this opportunity not only of expressing our sincere congratulations on your election to the Chief Magistracy of the United States, by so large a majority of the Electors, but to bear this public testimony of our estimation of the services rendered your country, in the various stations in which you have heretofore officiated in Europe and America. These are sure pledges that the prosperity of the American Republic will be the object of your pursuit ; and that, while you are desirous of allaying the asperity of party dissentions, you will be anxious to maintain the legitimate principles of the Constitution, with unabated ardour.

The patriot, who has uniformly supported the honour of his country in its various conflicts, is ever entitled to the applause of his fellow citizens. Fully impressed with this sentiment, we gratefully acknowledge your unremitted exertions in vindicating our national and commercial claims, when the immediate calls of the country rendered the services of our most enlightened statesmen, urgent and indispensable. We anticipate with pleasure the blessings arising to the United States, from the wisdom and rectitude of your administration, more particularly in patronizing such institutions as will extend the useful branches of science and literature, and promote the agricultural, manufacturing, and commercial interests of your constituents.

We wish you every blessing, both national and domestic; and trust that your name will be recorded in

the Amrerican annals, with the same respectful veneration as distinguishes the characters of your illustrious predecessors, WASHINGTON, ADAMS, JEFFERSON, and MADISON.

May you pursue your journey under the care of a benign Providence, happy in the reflection, that the personal safety of the Chief Magistrate of a republican government, requires no other protection than what arises from the affections of his fellow citizens. In behalf of our brethren and fellow citizens, we most cordially bid you welcome to the metropolis of Massachusetts.

To Henry Dearborn, Benjamin Austin, Thos. Melville, William Little, Russel Sturgiss, John Brazer, Jacob. Rhoades, and William Ingalls, Esquires.

I have received, with very great satisfaction, the very friendly welcome which you have given me, on the part of some of the members of the Legislature of Massachusetts, and of other citizens of Boston, who had deputed you to offer me their congratulations on my arrival in this metropolis.

Conscious of having exerted my best faculties, with unwearied zeal, to support the rights, and advance the prosperity of my fellow citizens, in the various important trusts with which I have been honoured by my country; the approbation which you have expressed of my conduct is very gratifying to me.

It has been my undeviating effort, in every situation, in which I have been placed, to promote, to the utmost of my abilities, the success of our republican government. I have pursued this policy, from a thorough conviction, that the prosperity and happiness of the whole American people, depended on the success of the great experiment which they have been called to make. All impartial persons now bear testimony to the extraordinary blessings with which we have been favoured. Well satisfied I am, that these blessings are to be imputed to the excellence of our government, and

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to the wisdom and purity with which it has been administered.

Believing that there is not a section of our union, nor a citizen who is not interested in the success of our government, I indulge a strong hope, that they will all unite in future, in the measures necessary to secure it. For this very important change, I consider the circumstances of the present epoch, peculiarly favourable. The success and unexampled prosperity with which we have hitherto been blessed, must have dispelled the doubts of all who have before honestly entertained any, of the practicability of our system, and from these a firm and honourable co-operation may fairly be expected. Our union has also acquired, of late, much strength. The proofs which have been afforded, of the great advantages communicated by it, to every part, and of the ruin which would inevitably and promptly overwhelm, even the parts most favoured, if it should be broken, seem to have carried conviction home to the bosoms of the most unbelieving. On the means necessary to secure success, and to advance with increased rapidity, the growth and prosperity of our country; there seems now to be but little, if any difference of opinion.

It is on these grounds, that I indulge a strong hope, and even entertain great confidence, that our principal dangers and difficulties have passed, and that the character of our deliberations, and the course of the government itself, will become more harmonions and happy, than it has hitherto been.

Satisfied as I am, that the union of the whole community, in support of our republican government, by all wise and proper measures, will effectually secure it from danger; that union is an object to which I look with the utmost solicitude. I consider it my duty to promote it, on the principles and for the purposes stated; and highly gratified shall I be, if it can be obtained In frankly avowing this motive, I owe it to the integrity of my views to state, that as the support of our republican government is my sole object, and in which I consider the whole community equally inter

ested, my conduct will be invariably directed to that end. In seeking to accomplish so great an object, I shall be careful to avoid such measures as may, by any possibility, sacrifice it.

JAMES MONROE.

The President remained a number of days in the town of Boston and its vicinity. His object in visiting it, was not to excite the curiosity of its citizens, or to give them an opportunity of displaying the hospitality, for which they have always been celebrated. He went there as the Chief Magistrate of a great country, to view its location, and, with the united counsel of the first military and naval characters, to devise the best means of defending a place of so much consequence to the Northern and Eastern States. Had the President wished to pass off a season in all the blandishments of etiquette, and in all the ceremonious forms of modern high life, surely, he could not, in all his extensive native country, have placed himself in a situation more favourable to the accomplishment of his wishes, than in Boston, and its vicinity. If there be a place in the world, where extensive wealth is made an instrument of procuring elegant enjoyment, it is there.

But while the President, in the most courteous and affable manner, received and acknowledged the numerous manifestations of private hospitality, his mind was undeviatingly fixed upon the great object of his Tour; the advancement of the public interest. During his residence, he visited most of the important manu, factories in the town, and in its neighbourhood. In the places at which the President, in his Tour, made any stay, his first attention was given to objects of national