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ciiizcm, those who have deceased, to the hour
ot their death, and those who survive, to the
present time. For the satisfaction of thoso who
look to self-love, and to private interest, as
springs of human action, it may he added, that
among the mass of citizens, friends, and con
nexions, whom they represented, were many,
whoso fortunes were principally vested in tht
of the delegates to that convention to quit the i and con fnience, which nre enjoyed by the best
seclusion to ujiieji they had voluntarily retired,
to expose themselves anew to ail the fatigue
and anxiety, the odium, the misrepresentations,
calumnies, and unjust reproaches, which so
frequently accompany mid follow the best ex
ertions fill' the public good.
- If each one of the Stales had a right thus to
seek u redress of grievances, it is clear that
two or more Slate* might consult together for
the same purpose ; and the only mode in which
they could consult each other was by a mutual
. appointment of,delegates for that purpose.
Bn: this is not the only ground, nor is it the
strongest, on which to rest the justification of
the proceedings in question, if the govern
ment of the United States in a limn of such
distress and danger should bs unable, nr
should neglect, to afford protection and relief
to the people, the legislature of the State would
not only have a right, but it would be their duly,
to consult together, and, if practicable, to fur
nish these from their own resources. This
would be in aid of the getter. I govertimeti .
How severely the people of Massacliucelts
experienced at that time the want of this ability
or disposition, in the general govern mem, we
need not repeat. If the legislature of a single
'State might under such circumstances endea
vour to provide for its defence, without infrin
ging the national compact, nu reason is per
ceived, why they might not appoint a com
mittee or delegates, to confer with delegates of
neighboring States who were exposed .u like
dangers and sufferings, to devise and suggest
to their respective legislatures measures by
which their own resources might be employed
'in a manner not repugnant to their obligations
ns members of the Union.' A part of New
England bad been invaded, add was then held
by the enemy, without at. effort by the general
governmet to regain it ; and if another inva
sion, which was then threatened and generally
expected, had takeu place, and the New Eng
land Slates had been still deserted by the gov
ernment, and left to rely on their own resources,
it iti obvious that the bust mode of providing
for 111vir co'union defence would have been by
a simultaneous and coinluucd operation of all
their forces. The Stales originally possessed
this right, and we hold that it has never been
surrendered, nor taken from them by the people.
The argument on this point might be easily
extended ; but we may confidently rely on the
two grounds above mentioned, to wit, the righl
of the people, through their State legislatures
or otherwise, to petition and remonstrate for
- a tedress of their grievances; and the right of
the States in a time of war and a time of threat
ened invasion to make the necessary provtsons
for their own defence.—To these objects was
confined the whole uulhority conferred by our
legislature oil the delegates whom they appoint
ed. They were directed to meet and confer
Willi other delegates, and to devise and suggest
measures of..relief for tho adoption of the re
spective States ; but not to represent or act for
their constituents by agreeing to, or adopting
any such measures themselves, or in behalf of
the States.
But whilst we strenuously maintain this right
of the people, to complain, to petition, and to
remonstrate in the strongest terms against
measures which they think to be unconstitution
al, unjust, or oppressive, and to do this in the
manner which they shall deem most convenient
or elfcctual, provided it be in 'au orderly and
peaceable maimerwe readily admit that a
wise people would not hastily resort to it, es
pecially in this imposing form, on every occa
sion of partial and temporary discontent orsuf-
fering. We therefore, proceed to consider,
Secondly, tlm propriety and expediency of
mlopting that measure in the autumn of 1814.
On this point it is enough to say, that the griev
ances that were suffered and the dangors that
were apprehended at that time, and tho strong
excitement which they produced among all tho
people, which is stated more particularly, else
where in. this address, rendered some measures
for their relief indispensably necessary*-'it'the
legislature had not undertaken thfclr cause, it
appeared to be certain, as We have already
suggested, that the people would take it into
their own hands ; and thorc was reason to fear
that the proceedings'^ that case might be less
orderly and peaceful, and, at the same time,
less efficacious.
Thirdly. We have already stated the objects
which our state government had in view, in
proposing tho Convention at Hartford, and
the powers conferred on their delegates. If,
instead of these avowed objocts, there had
been any secret plot for a dismemberment of
the Union, in which it had beon desired to en
gage the neighboring Slates, the measures for
that purpose we may supposo would have been
conducted in the most private manner possi.
ble. On the contrary, the resolution of our
legislature for appointing thejr delegates, and
piescribing their powers and duties, was openly
discussed and passed in the usual manner, aud
n copy of it was immediately sent, by direction
of the legislature, to the Governor of every
State in the Union. '
Fourthly. ( The only remaining question is;
whether the delegates exceeded or abused their
powers. As to this, we have only to refer to
the report of their proceedings, and to their
journal, which is deposited in the archives of
this Stale.
That repori,which was published immediately
after; the adjournment of the Convention, and
was soon aftor accepted by the legislature, holds
forth the importance of the Union as para
mount to all other considerations; enforces it by
elaborate reasoning, end refers in express terms
to IVkhington's farewell address, os its tex:
book, ft, then, no power to do wrong uas
girefhy the legislature to the convention, and
if nothing unconstitutional, disloyal, or lending
to disunion, was in fact done, (all which is
manifest of record) there remains no pretext
for iiflpe icltiiig the members pf the conven.ion
bv imputing to them covert nnd nefarious de-
sir'll-, except the uncharitable one, that the
ch iraciers of the men justify the belief, that
they cherished in their hearts wishes, and in
tentions, to do, what they had no authority to
execute, and what in fact they did not attempt.
On this bend, to the people of New England
who were acquainted with these characters, no
explanation is necessary. Fer the information
■ of others, it behoves those of us who were mem
bers to speak without reference to ourselves.
NVirh this reserve we may nil be permitted to
say, without fear of contradiction, that they
fairly represented whatever of moral, iutellec-
turl, or patriotic worth, is to be found in the
On this subject we disclaim the purpose of
instituting invidious comparisons ; but every
one knows thatjMassacImsctts has not beena-
lone in ciiinphiuis .anil remonstrances against
ilio acts of the national government. Nothing
can bo found on the records of her legislative
proceedings, surpassing the tone of resolutions
adopted in other States ill reprobation of the
alien and sedition laws. In one State opposi-
public funds, to whom the disunion of the | lion to the execution of a treaty, in others
States would have been ruin. That convention j the laws instituting the bank, has sounded the
may be said to have originated with the pen- ] note of preparation for resistencf in more im-
pie. Measures lor relief had been demanded I passioned strains than were ever adopted here,
from immense numbers, in counties and towns, | And at this moment, claims of State rights, and
in all part of the State, long before it was j protests against the measutes of the national
organized. Its main and avowed object was government, in terms, for which no parallel
accusation to a subsequent period. In the e-
rents of that time I have not the same interest
as in those preceding it; and as the reply was
necessarily co-extensivo with the answer, that
reason prevented me from joining in it. I
take this opportunity, however, to say for my
self that I find in Mr. Adams’ answer no jus
tification of his charges; and, in reply to that
portion of his letter, particularly addressed to
me, that I have seen no proof, and shall not
readily believe, that any portion of nty father’s
political course is to be attributed to the influ
ence there sng&ested.
FRANKLIN DEXTER.
Boston Jan. 28, 1829.
the defence of this part of the country against
the common enemy. Tho war then wore its
must threatening aspect. New Englan was des
titute of national troops; her treasuries pxliaus*
ed; her tuxeqgiruwe into the national cullers.
The proceedin';*, and report of the conven
tion, were in conformity witli this object. Tho
burden of that report consisted in recommen
ding an application ‘to Congress to permit the
•Slates to'provide lor tlioir own defence, and to he
indemnified for the expense, by rc-iinbursement,
ill some shape, from the National Government,
of, ;u least, a iiortion of their own money.—
This convention adjourned early in January.
On tlie 27th of the same month, an act of
Congress was passed, which gave to the State
Governments, the very power which was sought
by Massachusetts ; viz—that of raising, organ-
izingflitid officering state troops ‘to be employ
ed in the State raising the same, or in an ad
joining State' and providing for their pay and
subsistence. This we repeat, was the most
important object aimed at by the institution of
the convention, and by the report of that body.
Had this act of Congress passed, before the act
of Massachusetts, for organizing the convention,
that convention never would have, eiisted. Had
such an act been anticipated by tho convention,
or passed before its adjournment, that assembly
would have considered its commission as in a
great measure, supersded. For although it
prepared and reported sundry amendments to
the constitution of the United Statos, to be sub
mitted to all the Stales, and might even, if
knowing of this act of Congress, have persisted
in doing the same thipg; yet, as this proposal
for amendments could have been accomplished
ill oilier modes, they could have had no special
motive for so doing, but what arose from their
being together; and from the consideration
which might ho hoped for, as to their propo
sitions, from that circumstance. It is thus mat
ter of absolute demonstration, to all who do not
usurp the privilege of the searcher of hearts
that tho design of the Hartford convention
and its doings, were not only constitutional nnd
laudable, but sanctioned by an act of Congress,
passed after the report was published, not in
deed with express reference to it, but with its
principal features, and thus admitting tho rea
sonableness of its general tenor, and principal
object. It is indeed grievous to perceive Mr.
Adams condescending to intimate that the Con
vention was adjourned to Boston, and in a
strain of rhetorical paihos connecting his ima
ginary plot, then at least in the.thirteenth year
of its age, with tho 'catastrophe, which awaited
the ultimate proceedings of tho convention.’
That assembly adjourned without day, after
making its report. It was ipso lacto dissolved,
like other Committees. One of its resolutions
lid indeed purport that 'if the application of
these States to the government of tho United
Slates,.(recommended in a foregoing resolution)
should be unsuccessful, and peace should not be
comluded and fhe defence of these States should
be neglected as it has been, since the commence
ment of tho' war, it will be, iH the opinion of
this Convention, expedient for the Legislature
of tho several States to appoint delegates to an-
other Convention to meet at Boston on the
third Tuesday of Juno next, with such powers
and’iifstructions as tho exigency of a crisis, so
momentous may require,'—On this it is to be
observed,
First, that the Convention contemplated in
the foregoing resolution never was appointed,
and never could have been, according to the
terms of that resolution; because, as is shown
above, the object of the intended application
to Congress had been attained. And, Sec
ondly, if the contingencies mentioned in that
resolution had occurred, the question of forming
such a new Convention, and the appointment
of i ho delegates, must have gone into the hands
of new assemblies ; because all the Legislatures
of thu New England States would have been d»'
solved, and there would have been new elec
tions, before tho time proposed for the second
convention. And, lastly, it is matter of public
notoriety that the report of this convention' pro
duced the eifect of assuaging tho public sen
sibility, and operated to repress the vague and
ardent expectations entertained by mtlny of
our citizens, of immediate and effectual relief,
from the evils of their condition.
We pass ovui the elaborate exposition of
constitutional law in the President's letter, hav
ing no call, nor any inclination at tbik time to
controvert its leading principles. Neither do
we cuinmonl upon, though we perceive and
feel, the unjust, nnd wo must be excused for
saying, insidious mode hi which he has grouped
together distant and disconnected occurrences,
which happened in his absence from the country,
for the put pose of producing, by their colloca
tion, a glaring and sinister effect up -n the fed
eral party. They were nil of a public nature.
The arguments concerning their merit or de
merit have becu exhausted ; ami tinto, nnd the
good sense of an intelligent people, will place
them ultimately in their true light, even though
Mr. Adams should coritinuo to throw obstacles
in the way to ibis harmonious reaction of pub
lic opinion.
It has been a source of wonder and perplox-
ity to many in our community, to observe the
immense difference in the standards by which
public opinion has been led to measure the
same kind of proceedings, when adopted in dif
ferent States. No pretence is urged that any
actual resistance to tho laws, or forcible viola
tion of tbo constitutional compact, has ever
happened in Massachusetts. Constitutional ques
tions have arisen bcie as well as in other States.
It is surprising nnd consojptory that the num
ber has not been greater; and that the termin
ation of them has not been less amiable. To
the discussion of soincof them great excitement
was unavoidably incident; but in comparing
cases with causes and effects, the impartial ob
server will perceive nothing to nuthorizo any
disparagement of this State, to tho advantago
character ufthe New England community; that jof the pretension! of Other mwnbers of the con-
they retained all the persona] consideration! federacy.
can he found in Massachusetts, are ushered
into tho halls of Congress, under the most sol
emn and imposing forms of State authority.-—
It is not our part te censure or to approve those
proceedings. Massachusetts has done nothing
at liny time, in opposition to the national gov
ernment, and she has said nothing in deroga
tion of its powers, that is not fully justified by
tho constitution ; and not so much as other
States have said, with more decided emphasis ;
and, it is believed, without tho stiirmlusr of the
samo actual grievances. We tire no longer at a
loss to account for the prevalence of these prej
udices against this part of the Union, since
they can now be traced, not only to calumnies
openly propagated in the season of bitter con
tention by irritated opponents, but to the se
cret nnd hitherto unknown aspersions of Mr.
Adams.
Mr. Jefferson, then st the head of govern
ment, declares that the effect of Mr. Adams’
communication to him at their interview in
March, 1803, was such on his mind as to iuduce
a change in the system of his administration.—
Like impressions were doubtless made on Mr.
Giles and others, who then gave direction to
the public sentiment. Notwithstanding these
disadvantages, if Mr. Adams had not seen fit
to proclaim to tbo world his former secret de
nunciation, there had still been room to hope
that those impressions would be ’speedily ob-
liternted; that odious distinctions between the
people of different States would be abolished;
aud that all would Cumo to feel a common in
terest in referring symptoms ol excitement a-
gainst the procedure of tho national govern
ment which have been manifested successively
on so many occasions, nnd in so many States,
to the feelings, which, in free governments, are
always roused by like causes, and are charac
teristic, not of a factious but a generous sensi
bility to real or supposed usurpation. But Mr.
Adams returns to the charge with new anima
tion ; and by his political legacy to the people
of Massachusetts undertakes to entail upon
them lasting dishonor. IIu reaffirms his con-
vic tions of tho reality of the old project, per'
sists in connecting it with later events, and
dooms, himself to tho vocation of proving that
the federal party were either traitors or dupes.
Thus he has again (but not like a healing an
gel) troubled the pool, and wc know not when
the turbid waters will subside.
It must be apparent, that wo have not sought
but have been driven into this unexpected and
unwelcome controversy. Oil tho restoration
of peace in 1815, the federal party felt like
men, who, as by a miracle, find themselves safe
from the mo3t appallingj)cri7. Their joy was
too engrossing to permit a vindictive recur
rence to the causes of that peril. Every e-
motion of animosity was permitted to subside.
From that time until the appearance of Mr.
Adam’s publication, thoy had cordially (joined
in the general gratulution on the prosperity of
their country, and the security of its institu
tions. They were conscious of no deviation
from patriotic duty, in any measure, wherein
they had acted, or which had passed with their
approbation. They were not only contented,
but grateful, in the prospect of the duration of
civil liberty, according to the forms which the
people had deliberately sanctioned. These
objects being secured, they cheerfully acquiesc'
cd in the administration of government, by
whomsoever the people might call to places of
trust, and of honor.
With such sentiments and feelings, the pub
lie cannot but participate in the astonishment
of the undersigned, at the time, tho manner,
and the nature, of Mr. Adams’ publication.—
We make no attempt to assign mdtives to him,
nor to comment on such as may bo imagined.
The causes of past controversies, p*sing, as
they were, to oblivion among existing genera
tions, and arranging themselves, as they must
do, foi tho impartial scrutiny of future histori
ans, the revival of them can be no less distaste
ful to the public, than painful to us. Yet, it
could not be expected, that while Mr. Adams
from his high station, sends forth the unfound
ed suggestions of his imagination, or his jeal
ousy, as materials for present opinion, and fu
ture history, we should, by silence, give coun
tenance to his charges; nor that wo should neg-
loct to vindicate the reputation of ourselves,
our associates, and our Fathers.
H. G. OTIS,
ISRAEL THORNDIKE,
-T. H. i’ERKINS,
WILLIAM PRESCOTT,
DANIEL SARGENT,
JOHN LOWELL,
WILLIAM SULLIVAN,
CHARLES JACKSON, .
WARREN DUTTON,
BENJ. PICKMAN,
HENRY CABOT,
sun of tho late George Cabot
C. C. PARSONS,
son of Theophilus Parsons, Esq. deceased,
Btston Jan. 28, 1829.
LIST OF THE ACTS
and Resolutions passed, and Treaties confirm
ed, during the Second Session of the Twen
tieth Congress.
PUBLIC ACTS.
An act makiug appropriations fer the sup
port of the Government for the first quarter P. Hunt.
in the said State.
Concerning the government and discfei- I
of the Penitentiary in the District of CoWl
bia. ^**1
To incorporate the Washington, Alexand;
and Georgetown Steam Packet Comnsm® **'
PRIVATE ACTS.
For the relief of John B. Lemaitre, i r .
Releasing the lien of tho United States udo I
a,part of the land of Benjamin Owens, in An I
Arundel County, State of Maryland, to t t*|
Trustees of Mount Zion Meeliug J1 UUS( , 1
said County and State. ° ' l, |
For the relief of Daniel Goodwin, exeem I
of Benjamin Guodwiu, deceased. 01 1
Eor the relief of Jacob Re hetman.
For tho relief of Augustus A spinwall.
For the relief of Robert L. Kennon.
For the relief of William Otis.
For the relief of George Wilson, of p en . I
sylvania, ■ 1
For the relief of John Smith T. and \Vil. ?a
and
I subscribed the foregoing letter, and not
the Reply, for tho following reasons ; Mr. Ad
ams in his statement published in thu National
Intelligencer, spoke of the leaders of the Fed
eral party in the year 1808 and for several
years previous as engaged in a systematic op
position to the general government, having for
its object the dissolution of the Union, and the
establishment of a separate confederacy by the
aid of a foreign power. As n proof of that
disposition, particular allusion is made to the
opposition to tho embargo in the Courts of
Justice in Massachusetts. This pointed the
charge directly at my late father, whose efforts
in that causo are probably remembered; and
was the reason of my joining in the applica
tion to Mr. Adams to know on what such a
charge was founded. If this construction of
the sentiment needs confirmation; it is to be
found in one of the letters lately published in
Saleyt as lyr.Adatnsls. ...
Mr. Adams is his answer ha$ extended his
of tho year one thousand eight hundred
twenty nine.
To preserve from injury and waste tho
School Lands in the Territory of Arkansas.
To allow a salary to tho Marshal of the
District of Connecticut.
Restricting the location of certain land claims
in the Territory of Arkansas, and for other
purposes.
Extending the term within which merchan
dize may be exported with the benefit of draw
back.
To amend an act, entitled "an act for the
better organization of the Medical Department
of the Navy ," approved 24th May, 1828.
Fur altering the times for holding the sess
ions of the Circuit Court of tho United States
for the District of Georgia, at the places pro
vided by law.
To allow a salary to tho Marshal of tho
Eastern District of Virginia.
To establish a Port of Entry at Magnolia, in
Florida.
Allowing an additional drawback on Sugar
refined in the United States, and exported
therefrom.
In addition to the act, entitled “an act to
amend the Judicial System of the United
States."
To authorize the Citizens of the Territories
of Arkansas and Florida to elect their Officers,
and for other purposes.
To allow further time to complete the issn-
ng and lorating of Military Land Warrants.
Authorizing the laying off a town on Bean
river, in thu State of Illinois, and for otiler
purposes.
To provide for the purchase and distribu
tion of certain copies of the Digest of the Laws
of the United States, by Thomas F. Gordon.
€*o alter the time of holding the Sixth Cir
cuit Court of the United States for the Dis
trict of South Carolina.
To authorize the appointment of a Survey
or for tho Virginia Military District, in ihe
State of Ohio.
Making additional appropriations for the
support of government for tho year one thou
sand eight hundred and twenty-nine.
Making appropriations for building light hou
ses and beacons, and placing buoys, and fur
improving harbors and directing surveys.
Making additional appropriation for the Mil
itary service of tho United States, for tho year
one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.
Authorizing the subscription of Stock in the
Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company,
and in tho Dismal Swamp Canal Company.
Making provisions for the payment of Pen
sions to the widows and children of pensioners,
in certain cases, and for other purposes.
Making appropriations for completing cer
tain roads, and for making examinations and
surveys.
For the construction of the Cumberland
Road west#ardly of Zanesville.
For tho continnation of the Cumberland
Road. »
To authorize a subscription of stock on the
part of the United States, in tho Louisville and
Portland Canal Company.
Making additional appropriations for the
support of the Navy of the United States, for
the year one thousand eight hundred and twon-
ty nine.
Making additional appropriations for the
payment of the Revolutionary and other Pen
sioners of the United States, for tho year ope
thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.
Making appropriations for the erection and
completion of certain barracks and quarters,
and for other purposes.
Making appropriations-for the Indian De
partment for tho year one thousapd eight hun
dred and twenty-nine.
Making additional appropriations for certain
fortifications of the United States, for tho year
ono thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.
Making appropriations for carrying into ef
fect cortain treaties with Indian tribes, and for
holding a treaty with the Pottawatamies.
To authorize the establishment of a Town
on land reserved for tho use of Schools, and
todircctthe manner of disposing of certain re
served quarter sections of land for the Seat of
Government in Florida..
Providing for tho printing and binding sixty
thousand copies of the abstract of Infantry
Taetics; including manoeuvres of Light Infan
try and Riflemen, and for other purposes.
Confirming the reports of the Register and
Receiver of the Lam* Office for tho District of
Saint Stephens, in the State of Alabama, and
for other purposes.
To provide for the apprehension and delive
ry of desorters Irom certain foreign vessels ia
the port of the United States.
To continue the present mode of supplying
tho army of the United States.
For the relief of the Nuvy Hospital fund.
Making appropriations for tho public build-
and for other Durnoscs.
For the relief of the heirs of John Gwynn.
For the benefit of the Trustees of the V' J.
ley Creek Academy, in the Stale of Alabama
For tho relief of Thomas Griffin.
For the relief of Charles A. Burnett.
For the relibfof the legal representatives of
John Guest, deceased.
For the relief of Joshua Foltz.
For the relief of Samuel Chesnut.
For tho relief pf the representativesofJaniei
A. Harper deceased.
For the relief of Thomas Hunt.
For the relief of William It. Maddox
RESOLUTIONS.
Resolutions amendatory of a joint Rcsoli*
tion, passed third March, one thousand eight
hundred and nineteen.
Resolution in relation to the survey and hr.
ing out a military road in the State of Maine
TREATIES.
Additional Article to tho Convention of 1827
between the United States and the Hanseatic
Republics of Lubeck, Bremen, and Hatnburt
concluded June 4, 1828.
Articles of Agreement concluded August 25,
between tho United States aud the Winnebagt
Tribe and the United Tribes of Potawatomic
Chippewa and Ottawa Indians.
Articles of a Treaty made and concluded a|
the Missionary Establishment upon the St,
Joseph of Lake Michigan, the 20th day of
September, in tho year of our Lord one thou-
sand eight hundred and twenty-eight, between
Lewis Cass nnd Pierre Menard, Commission-
erson the part of the United States, and the
Potawntnmie tribe of Indians.
Articles of a Treaty made and conclude!
at the Butte des Morts, on Fox river, in the
Territory of Michigan, between Lewis Ca
and Thomas L. M’Kenney, Commissioners on
the part of tho United States, aud the Cliippc-
way , Menomiuie, anti Winnebago Indians.
THE INAUGURATION.
John C. Calhoun, Vice President elect d
the U. States took the Chair of ilia Senate at
11 o'clock, and the Senate was called to order.
Tiie oath to support the Constitution of die
United States was administered to tho Via
President by Mr. Smith, of Maryland.
The oath to support the Constitution of die
United States was then administered to the 4
following uew Senators, by tho Vice Prksi
dent, viz:
Messrs. Branch, Clayton, Binn, IIaync,
Kino, Knight, McLean of Illinois, Tazkweu,
White, Silsreb, Bell, FiiELiNGiiurses,
Sprague, aud Livingston; aud they took their
seats.
On motion of Mr. Smith, of Maryland it
was ordered that when the Senate adjourn
they will adjourn to meet to-morrow, at 12 o’
clock.
At half past 11 o’clock, Andrew Jackson,
the President elect, entered the Senate Cham
ber, attended by the Marshal of the District
and thecommitteo of Arrangements, and tank
his seat immediately in front of the - Secretary')
desk.
Tho Chief Justice of tho United Sta:*s
and Associate Judges, entered soon alter,
aud ocrfqiied the seats assigned for them on
the right of the President’s Chair.
Tho Foreign Ministers and their suites,is
their splendid official costumes, occupied scan
on the left of tho Chnir.
A large number of Ladies were present, and
occupied the seats in the rear o f tho Senator),
nnd the lobby under tho Eastern gallery. The
Western gallery was reserved for members of
the House of Representatives.
At twelve o’clock the Sotiato adjourned, nnd
a procession was formed to the Eastern porti
co of the Capitol where, in presence of an im
mense concourse of spectators, filling tho por-,
tico, the steps, and the enclosure, the Presi
dent of the. United States delivered his IniW-
gural Address, and having concluded, it, th>
oath to support the Constitution was adminis
tered to him by Chief Jusrica Marshall.
Salutes were fired by two companies, ofsr-
tillery, stationed in the vicinity of tho Capitol,
which were repeated at tho forts, and by de
tachments of artillery on tho plains, when
tho President retired, the procession was rtl ‘
formed, and ho wus conducted to the Pr^
dential Mansion.
Ho here received tho salntntion of a vast num
ber of persons, who came to congratulate his
upon his induction to tlie Presidency.
The day was soreno nnd mild, and eveij
way favorable to the wishes of those who l |J *
come from a distance to witness tho eereawtj
of the Inauguration. The number of person!
present nttho Capitol, within, aiotind,
front of it, have been variously estimated. >'*
supposo that it did not fall short of ten tlioo*
sand.—iVat. hit. March 5.
ings and for other purposes.
Making additional appropriations for com
pleting and repairing pjers, for the improve
ment of certain harbors, ana of the navigation
of certain rivers.
For the preservation and repair of the Cum
berland Road.
To authorize the President the United
States to cause tho reserved lead mines in the
State of Missouri to be exposed to public sale,
and for other purposes.
To authorizo the President of tho United
States to cause the reserved Salt Springs in the
State of Missouri to’be exposed to public sale.
Providing for coding to tho State of South
Caroluujbejurisdiction over, and the tills to,
a certain tract of land called Mount Deaborn,
r A shoemaker’s shop in Lowell* Massach^
setts, wrs burnt Jan. 30, about 5 o’clock In w
morning, and tho next day the citizens
scribed money enough to repair the loss. u -
inquiry, however it appeared that spades iw
diamonds had been in operation in tb*
most of the night, irislend of owls and s*
knives. The citizens therefore concluded
withhold their contributions, not wishing ,o! "
build n gambling shop, and the money wtt 1
turned to them. Hampshire Gastttt-
The Bill for the preservation nnd rep a ' r *
tho Cumberland Road has passed tho t*»
es in a modified form, tho whole of the.*®***
which provided for the erection of toll 5 ^
and the imposition of tolls, having been
en out, and tho appropriation being the
sections of tbo bill.