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The ADDRESS of the Senate to the President
df the United States, iu Answer to his
Speech to both Houses of Congress.
S I R,
the Senate of the United States, return
you our sincere thanks for your excellent
speech delivered to both Houses of Congress ;
congratulate you on the complete organiza
tion of the Federal Government, and felici
tate ourselves and our fellow ci izens on your
elevation to the office of Piefident; an office
highly important by the powers conftifution
ally annexed to it, and extremely honorable
from the manner in which the appointment
is made. The unanimous fuffrage of the
elective body in your favor, is peculiarly ex
pressive of the gratitude, confidence, and af
fection of the citizens of America, and*is
the highed testimonial at once of your merit
and their esteem. We are sensible, Sir, that
nothing but the voice of your fellow citizens
could have called you from a retreat chosen
with the fondeft prediledion, endeared by
habit, and confccrated to thfc repose of de
clining years. We rejoice, and with us
all America, that, in obedience to the call
of our common country, you have returned
once more to public life. In you all parties
confide; in you all interefls unite; and we
have no doubt that your part fervice9,
as they have been, will be equalled by your
future exertions ; and that your prudence
and sagacity as a datefman will tend to avert
the dangers to which we were exposed, to
give liability to the prefenr government, ahd
dignity and splendor to that country which
your skill and valour as a soldier so eminent
ly contributed to raise to independence and
empire.
* When vve contemplate the coincidence of
circumflances, and wonderful combination of
causes, whjch gradually prepared the people
of this country for independence ; when we
contemplate the rife, progress and termina
tion, of the late W3r, which gave them a
name among the nations of the earth, we are,
with you, unavoidably led to acknowledge
and adore the Great Arbiter of the Umverfe,
by whom empires rife and fall A review of
the many signal indances of 'divine interposi
tion in favor of this country claims our mod
pious gratiiude; and permit us, Sir, to ob
serve, that, among the great events which
have led to the formation and edablifhment of
a federal government, weefleemyour accept
ance of the office of President as one of the
mod propitious and important.
In the execution of the trud reposed in us,
we (hall endeavour to pursue that enlarged
and liberal policy to which your speech so hap
pily directs. We are confeious that the pro
sperity of each date is inseparably connected
with the welfare of all, and that in promot
ing the latter we shall effectually advance the
former. In full perfuafioa of this truth, it
shall be our invariable aim to dived ourselves
of local prejudices and attachments, and to
view the great assemblage of communities
and intereds committed to our charge with an
equal eye. We feel, Sir, the force, and ac
knowledge the judnefi of the observation,
that the foundation of our national policy
lhould be laid in private morality ; if indivi
duals be not influenced by moral principles,
it is in vain to look for public virtue ; it is
therefore the duty of legifluors to enforce,
both by precept and example, the utility as
well as the necessity of a drift adherence so
the rules of didributrve judice. We beg
you to be allured, that the Senate will at all
times cheerfully co-operate in every meafufe
which may drengthen the union, conduce to
the happiness, or fecurc and perpetuate the
liberties of this gteat confederated republic.
We commend you, Sir, to the protection
of Almighty God, earnediy beseeching him
long to preierve a life so valuable aud dear to
the people of the United States, and that your
adminiftrafion may be prosperous to the na
tion, and glorious to yourfelf.
la binate, May 16, 1789.
Sig ned by Order ,
JOHN ADAMS, President of the
Senate ts the United States.
To which the President made the following
REPLY:
Gentiim n,
J THANK you for your address, in which
the mod affectionate fentimems are expref
fod in the mutt obliging turns. Thu comci-
dence of circumflances, which ted to thisati
fpicious cribs, the confidence reposed in me
by my fellow citizens, and the afliffanc: I
may expert from councils which will be dic
tated by an enlarged and liberal policy, seem
to preface a more prosperous issue to my ad
miniftratiou, than a diffidence of my abilities
had taught me to anticipate.—l now feel
myfelf inexpressibly happy in a belief, that
Heaven, which has done fomuch for our in
fant nation, will not withdraw its providential
influence before our political felicity lhall
- have been completed j and in a conviction
that the Senate will at all times co-operate
in every measure which may tend to promote
the welfare of this confederated republic
Thus supported by a firm trud in the Great
Arbiter of the Universe, aided by the col
lected wifdoni of the Union, and imploring
the Divine Benedi&ion on our joint exertions
in the service of our country, I readily en
gage with you in the arduous but plealing talk
of attempting to make a nation happy.
G. WASHINGTON.
The ADDRESS of the House of Representa
tives.
To GEORGE WASHINGTON,
President of the United States.
S I R,
'J'HE Representatives of the people of the
United States present their congratula
tions on the event by which yoar fellow citi
zens have atteded the pre-eminence es your
merit. You have loug held the fird place in
their edeem. You have often received tokens
of their affection. You now poll'efs the only
proof that remained of their gratitude for
your services, of their reverence for your
wiidom, and of their confidence in your
virtues. You enjoy the highed, because the
trued, honor of being the fird magidrate, by
the unanimous choice of the freed people on
the face of the earth.
We well know the anxieties with whicii
you mud have obeyed a summons from the
repose reserved for your declining years, in
to public feenes, of which you had taken your
leave for ever. But the obedience was due
to the occasion. It is already applauded by
the universal joy which welcomes you to your
dation. And we cannot doubt that it will be
rewarded with ail the fatisfaflion with which
an ardent love for yotir fellow citizens mud
review fuccefsful efforts to promote their hap
piness.
This anticipation is not judified merely by
the pad experience of your signal services.
It is particularly fuggeded by the pious im
preflions under which you commence your ad
minidration, and the enlightened maxfms by
which you mean to conduft it We feel
with you the dronged obligati ns to adore
the invifihle hand which has led the American
people through so many difficulties, to cherish
a confeious responsibility for the dediny of
republican liberty, and to seek the only sure
means of preserving and recommending the
precious depofite in a fydem of legiflatiou
founded on the principles of an honed policy,
and directed by the fpirtt of a diffufive patri
ot ism.
The question ariiing out of the fifth article
of the Conditution, will receive all the at
tention demanded by its importance; and
’ will, we trud, be decided under the influence
of all the coofidefations to which you allude.
In forming the pecuniary provisions for the
Executive department, We shall not lose fight
of a wifli refultiug from motives which give
it a peculiar claim to our regard. Your rc
folution in a moment critical to the liberties
of your country, to renounce all personal
emolument, was among the inanypreiages of
your patriotic services, which have been
amply fulfilled ; and your scrupulous adhe
rence now to the law then imposed upon your
felf, cannot fail to demonflrate the purity,
whild it increases the iudre of a character
which has so many titles to admiration.
Such are the sentiments which we have
thought fit to address to you. They flow ft urn
our own hearts ; and we verily believe, that,
among the millions we reprelent, there is not
a virtuous cit.’zcn whole heart will disown
them.
All that remains is, that we join in vour
fervent fupplicatton for the blcffing* of Hca
* ven 011 our country; and that we add our
own for the choired of those blediugs ou the
melt beloved of her citizen*.
j V. .v MVHUN3£R9, tfuhr. \
' To which the Prefidec? returned the following
ANSWER.
GiniLmtu,
r Y Oli K very affectionate address produces
emotions which I know not how to ex
piets Ilcel that my pafl endeavours in the
lei vice ot my Country a;,e far over paid by its
goodnef* )• and I tear much, that my future
ones may not fulfill your kind anticipation.
All that I can promise is, that they will be
invariably d hefted by an hone ft an d ardent
zeal. Os this reiource, my heatt assures me.
Far alf beyond, I iely on the patnotilm of
those with whom I am to co-operate, and a
continuance of the blcffiugs of Heaven on
our beloved country. * *
G. WAS til NG TON,
The underwritten Members cf the Executive
Councilprotejl a gee in Ji the Order of the s :h
injlant , for rescinding the Order of the Y\ib
uli lino.
i» T3EOAUSE the judiciary ought to
JL> finiili the next circuit, previous
to the meeting of the General Afteinhly, that
all the depaitments of government may expire
together, and the Conftitutioo have a perfect
operation without any remaining Iliac kies of
the old.
2. Because the Order of the sth iuftant
leaves the Courts to he held during the Se'f
lion of the Legislature,. which cannot fail in
troducing difrord and confufion in the diffe
rent departments, and render it impofiib'e fop
many to fulfill the duties of office ; and pre
vent others from the benefit of a fair trial,
and the slate from a legislative representation.
3. Because it is refufing to exercise a
power recommended by two Conventions,
lecognized by the Legillatuie, and confirmee!
by a Couftiiution
4. Because great numbers of futts are al
ready comment ed, and returnable according
to the Order of the 14th ult. by which the
innocentJufeers will be opprelfed by expence,
for no other crime, than a cons deuce in go
vernment,
sth. Beraufe the Order of the 14th May,
by Proclamation, became the supreme law of
the land : Anv poftcrior Older is expoji fallo
and oppreflive.
6. Because these measures teach the citi
zens to doutt and de/pije the orders of the Fx
ecutive, by ftiewmg, that the most solemn ad
judications may be broken down, and Orders
and Proclamations trampled under feet by the
power which created them.
7. Because no arguments have been ad
duced by the majoiity againlt the Order of
the 14th of May, but the following, viz
' “ That the Executive have not power to alter
the time for holding the Superior Court6.’*—.
Delicacy forbids a leply to so glaring an ab
surdity, left it be considered an insult to com
mon undemanding ; and it is not the defigu
of th's communication to convince or couverc
the jtuLb,rn and injane,
E. LYMAN.
J. WEED.
Saint John the haptift
T'HE Members of LODGE COLUM*
BIA, are refuelled to attend at thts*
Lodge Room on PTedneJday, the 24111 inst.
at 11 o clock A M. in order to celebrate the
FESTIVAL of St. JOHN the BAPTIST.
Dinner will be fetved up a' the Academy.
The company of tranfent brethieu is re*
quelled.
By Order of the PVcrfhipful Majler ,
J* Y. NOEL, Secretary.
N. B. Tickets to he had of Brothei iM'Da*
nald and Harper, ishwards.
light Dollars Reward.
STRAYFD or fto’en from the Subscriber,
a large SORRFL H<>KBF, about' if
hands high, ha* a frpall liar in his forehead,
and fomc of big feet white, hut which, or
how many, I dmi\ remember. He has had
his tail and mane lately trimmed, and haa
two large lumps oil the points ol hi. (boulderg,
occalioned by woik; he has no l.iaiul*
Any pe f«u who will deliver the feid Hotfe to
me. at ivy plantation, about one mile from
Augufia, (hall receive the above lewud,
IUZaSLIH CORNELL,