are flourishing and happy. Our mountains echo with the cheerful voice of industry and security; our valleys smile with abundance and peace. The blessings are dear to our hearts. We habitually cherish them as inseparable from our existence. In their defence, Sir, we have bled; and we are still ready, should our country call, to bleed again.

In this tour, undertaken through a remote section of the Union, for the additional security of our growing republic, you have an opportunity to become intimately acquainted with our local feelings -our local interests-our republican spirit-but above all, our unshaken attachment to our national government, and our national institutions.

We feel ourselves flattered by this first visit from the chief magistrate of our nation, and in beholding your face, Sir, we behold a new pledge for the continuance of our invaluable blessings.'

The President in his reply said :—

"FELLOW CITIZENS-I have approached the State of Vermont with peculiar sensibility. On a former visit, immediately after the Revolutionary War, I left it a wilderness, and I now find it blooming with luxuriant promise of wealth and happiness, to a numerous population. A brave and free people will never abandon the defence of their country. The patriotism of Vermont has been relied on in times of peril; and the just expectation of their virtue was honorably sustained. I shall ever rely on their wisdom in the councils of the nation, as on their courage in the field."

In a reply to an address to him by the young ladies of the Windsor Female Academy he said :

"YOUNG LADIES-I beg you to be assured, that no attention which I have received in the course of my route, has afforded me greater satisfaction, than that by which I have been honored by the Young Ladies of the Female Academy of Windsor. I take a deep interest as a parent and citizen, in the success of female education, and have been delighted, wherever I have been, to witness the attention paid to it. That you may be distinguished for your graceful and useful acquirements, and for every amiable virtue, is the object of my sincere desire. Accept my best wishes for your happiness."

On their way from Windsor to Woodstock the President and his suite was met on the 23d of July by a cavalcade of citizens and a detachment of cavalry which escorted him to Woodstock village where he was received by the citizens with such demonstrations of regard as the spontaneous offering of a free people could give to a respected Chief Magistrate. Hon. Titus Hutchinson gave an appropriate address of welcome. The President in his reply, said, he was happy to visit the State of Vermont and to meet the citizens of Woodstock; that the demonstrations made in the progress of his journey, he was disposed to receive as a mark of respect to the office of President than a personal compliment.

The President and his suite proceeded northward through Royalton and other towns and entered the village of Montpelier the 24th of July. He was met in Berlin by two companies of cavalry and large number of prominent citizens and escorted by them to the village, and conducted to the State

House under a national salute from the Washington Artillery. In front of the State House, between three and four hundred pupils, both boys and girls, of the Academy and the members of the village schools, dressed in neat uniform, each tastefully decorated with garlands from the field of nature, were arranged in two lines facing each other in perfect order. The President walked through the assemblage with uncovered head bowing as he passed, entered the State House under a fanciful arch of evergreens, emblematic of the duration of our liberties; on one side of the arch were these words, "July 4, 1776," and on the other side, "Trenton, Dec. 26, 1776." James Fisk who had been a member of Congress, who afterwards was United States Senator from Vermont and who was a personal and political friend of the President, delivered the following address of welcome:

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'SIR-The citizens of Montpelier and its vicinity, have directed their Committee to present you their respectful salutations and bid you a cordial wel

come.

"The infancy of our settlement places our progress in the arts and sciences something behind most of our sister States; but we shall not be denied some claim to a share of that ardent love of liberty, and the Rights of Man, that attachment to the honor and interests of our country, which now so distinguish the American character; while the fields of Hubbardton, the heights of Walloomsack, and the plains of Plattsburgh, are admitted to witness in our favor.

"Many of those, we now represent, ventured

their lives in the Revolutionary contest; and permit us, sir, to say, the value of this opportunity is greatly enhanced, by the consideration, that we now tender our respects to one who shared in all the hardships and dangers of that eventful period, which gave liberty and independence to our country: nor are we unmindful that from that period until now, every public act of your life evinces an unalterable attachment to the principles for which you then contended.

"With such pledges, we feel an unlimited confidence, that should your measures fulfil your intentions, your administration, under the guidance of Divine Providence, will be as prosperous and happy as its commencement is tranquil and promising; and that the honor, the rights and interests of the nation will pass from your hands unimpaired."

The President responded as follows:

"FELLOW CITIZENS-The kind reception which your ardent attachment to the civil and religious institutions of our country have prompted you to give me, is the more grateful, because from citizens, who, having bled in their defence, can never be unmindful of their value.

"Though you do not claim pre-eminent distinction in the arts and sciences, yet your highly respectable colleges and schools plainly evince, that in the march of enterprise and industry through the place which recently was a wilderness, the sciences and the arts do not linger far in the rear. "Your confidence in my sincere determination, to administer the government on national principles,

is greatfully acknowledged; and so far as the preservation of the honor, the rights, and interests of the nation unimpaired, may depend upon me, you may rely upon my best efforts to accomplish this great and desirable object."

The President then visited the schools in the Representative Room; the scholars received him by rising, and by Mr. Hill the Preceptor of the Academy, saying, “I present to your Excellency, the finest blossoms and fairest flowers that our climate produces," to which the President replied, They are the finest that nature can produce." The President was then escorted to the dwelling of Wyllys I. Cadwell, Esq., where he partook of a collation, and soon after took leave of the committee of arrangements, ascended his carriage and resumed his journey. It was said by a resident citizen of Montpelier, that it was indeed an animating and affecting scene to behold the venerable head of the Union, saluted by the pride of their parents and the hope of their country, while beauty sparkeled from every countenance, and tears of parented affection rolled down the cheek of many an aged sire.

The President reached Burlington on the evening of July 24th. He was met at Williston by a large number of citizens from Burlington with a large detachment of cavalry commanded by Major Brinsmaid and escorted to town. The President's arrival at Burlington was announced by a national salute from the Battery, followed by another fired from one of the United States galleys, lying in the harbor; the bells of the churches were rung, and