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indispensable. We anticipate, with pleasure, the blessings arising to the United States, from the wisdom and rectitude of your administration, more particularly in patronising 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 American 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.

HENRY DEARBORN, "BENJAMIN AUSTIN, "THOMAS MELVILLE, “ WILLIAM LITTLE,

"RUSSELL STURGIS,
"JACOB RHOADES,
"JOHN BRAZIER,

"WILLIAM INGALLS.

"Committee."

THE ANSWER.

"I have received, with great satisfaction, the very friendly welcome which you have given me, on the

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part of some of the members of the legislature of Massachusetts, and of others, 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 upon 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 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 bless

ed, must have dispelled the doubts, of all who had 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 of late acquired much strength. The proofs which have been afforded of the great advantages communicated by it to every foreign 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 harmonious and happy than it has heretofore 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 interested, 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."

CHAPTER VI.

Inspection of the Navy Yard-the President boards the Independence seventy-four-Midshipman King's Narrative-Charlestown-address of the Citizens -the President repairs to Bunker Hill-Middlesex Canal-Oratorio-visit to Cambridge College -address of the Faculty-the degree of Doctor of Laws conferred on the President-review of the Boston troops-Quincy.

INDEFATIGABLE as the President had been in the examination of the public works, upon the Boston station, the navy yard on Mystic river, near Charlestown, had not yet been inspected. On the morning of Saturday, the 5th, he therefore performed that duty, and honoured captain Hull, the commanding officer of the station, with his company to breakfast, after which he was received on board the Independence seventy-four, by commodore Bainbridge, under a national salute. The ship was handsomely dressed off, with the flags of all the nations in amity with the United States, and a sumptuous collation was prepared, to which the commodore had invited the general staff, and most of the naval, military, and civil officers. The President, having allotted this

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