with you in these emotions ; I cannot, therefore, but take a deep interest in the literary seminary of this place; for such institutions will long supply successive generations of wise and virtuous men, who will know how to estimate and preserve the blessings of civil liberty, that their fathers shall bequeath to them.

It is an epoch like the present, when an honourable peace leaves no question to agitate the public, that through institutions like yours, the expanded benevolence, and high sense of national honour, which are essential to public virtue, should be every where diffused as a means of union. These cannot fail to produce that national feeling, from which you anticipate such happy results.

I cannot but acknowledge your expressions of personal regard and respect. That the blessings you invoke on me, may abundantly descend on yourselves and your children for many generations, is truly my sincere and ardent wish.

JAMES MONROE.

Upon reaching Hanover, the President was again upon the banks of the Connecticut river. A few weeks previous, he had explored the country upon both shores of it from Middletown, in Connecticut, to Springfield, in Massachusetts. He was there delighted with its beauty, gratified at beholding large and flourishing towns upon its banks, and a country in the highest state of cultivation. He was here two hundred miles from its mouth, and saw but little diminution in its size, and but little inferiority in point of fertility, In viewing this stream, he might well have exclaimed in the finished, poetic language of BARLOW.

"Nor drinks the sea a lovlier wave than thine."

Although Hanover would always be admired for the natural beauty of its situation, and the taste there dis

played; yet it derives its principal consequence from the University there established.

The birth of poets, statesmen, and warriors, imparts a consequence to the place of their nativity. Mantua and Virgil-Geneva and Rosseau—Stratford and Shakespeare, are always associated. An equal, and perhaps a superior consequence is imparted to places from the establishment of Literary Institutions. Cambridge, Oxford, Edinburgh, Leyden, &c. in Europe-Cambridge, New-Haven, Princeton, Hanover, &c. in America, cannot be mentioned without an instant recollection that science and literature have been acquired in their Academic bowers.

The citizens of Hanover modestly confessed to the President that" a seminary which a few years since was planted in a wilderness, can exhibit to you no venerable antiquities; no proud monuments of the arts." This interesting university owes its origin to the almost romantic philanthropy of Doct. WHEELOCK, its first President. "Moore's Charity School" was commenced by him in Connecticut for the purpose of teaching the aborigines of America, science and Christianity. The attempt was noble; its success was trifling. The school was removed to the wilds of Hanover. Her forests, which had before excluded the rays of the sun, were, by the labours of art, and the sun of science, converted into a fertile plain. The munificence of Lord DARTMOUTH, and the unyielding perseverance of President WHEELOCK, soon graced the plain with ' Dartmouth University.' It would be unpardonable when speaking of this university, to pass in silence over the Medical School attached to it. The theoretical sci

ence and extensive practice of NATHAN SMITH, M. D. has given to it a consequence which nothing but talents like his can impart to a medical establishment. He brought into it the acquirements of a scholar, whose mind was enriched by the scientific instruction of the medical faculty of America and Europe. His numerous pupils, in different parts of our country, are administering that relief for the calamities incident to man, which correct science, and scientific practice only can afford. This school, this instructor, and these pupils, will long be remembered by the once afflicted, and now restored sons of pain and sorrow.

The reception of the President here, to say the least, was handsome. The citizens gave him the welcome, which was the effect of sincere respect. He reciprocated it in a manner which shews that he knew how to appreciate the cordiality of the heart.

Amidst the congratulations of a multitude, and the -courteous civility of the refined, the President could not forget to pay his respects to Mrs. WHEELOCK, the wife of the first President of the University here. This venerable matron resided at Trenton, N. Jersey, when he received his wounds there. With the affecting sensibility of female benevolence, she watched over the couch of the wounded MONROE ; administered the relief she could afford to a then gallant youth, who all but died in the cause of his injured country. Her gallant grandson, Gen. ELEAZER WHEELOCK RIPLEY, escaped by miracle from death in the same cause in the last war, at Bridgewater, She has lived to see two wars gloriously terminated, in both of which the independence of her native country was defended, support

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ed, and established by the battle array of republican soldiers in the tented field. It is on occasions like this, that the heart melts into tenderness, and forgets the evanescent splendour which is attached to exalted rank. The President, amidst his public avocations, "though he thought as a sage, he felt like a man." Through his whole Tour, he sought after his revolutionary compatriots. Historical recollection, and personal experience, enabled him, in retrospect, to review the scenes through which his countrymen had passed for nearly half a century. He saw many a wounded patriot surrounded by an happy progeny, enjoying the blessings acquired by the toil and courage of their ancestors.

Amidst the regulated forms, and the fashionable style of modern etiquette, the President was received by one of the Shaking Quakers, at Enfield, N. H. in a style of plain hospitality, which comes directly home to "men's business and bosoms." The Elder, in all the majesty of conscious integrity, approached the President, and said, "I, James Goodrich, welcome JAMES MONROE to our hahitation." This must have been the language of the heart, which can neither be ornamented by the flourishes of rhetoric, nor degraded by the sneers of formality.

Upon the 23d, the President crossed the Connecticut, and arrived at Norwich, in VERMONT. This State, for some years, was the youngest sister in the American family. Its name, Ver Mons, is a description of its surface. The Green Mountain makes a natural division of the State into the Eastern and Western sections of it. The streams originating in this beautiful range of hills, flow eastward toward the Connecticut, and

westward toward the Hudson. The remark may not be inapposite, that the inhabitants of a hill country have an elevation of sentiment, and an ardour of feeling, not common with the people of the plains. The Highlanders of Scotland, the Tyrolese, and the Swiss, have achieved deeds of glory, which, for centuries, had secured the admiration of the world. The "Green Mountain Boys" of Vermont, in the most desperate struggle that ever engaged men in the great cause of emancipation from despotic power, were amongst the first to "breast the shock" in the revolutionary contest.

"The President passed through Norwich to the Copperas works in Stafford; viewed them; and on his leaving the copperas mine, he was conducted through Stafford hollow, where he was met by a considerable number of the citizens; received and returned their compliments. From thence he was escorted back to Norwich, and alighted at Curtis's Hotel, where he was met by a number of citizens, and presented with the following Address :"

TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

SIR-A few citizens of Vermont, upon your first entrance on the borders of the State, present you a united and hearty welcome.

With the liveliest emotions of duty we meet, for the first time, a Chief Magistrate of the union within our territory. An emulation to pay respectful attention to the ruler of our nation, appointed by our own choice, under a constitution so eminently calculated for individual security, for individual interests, and national happiness; a spontaneous burst of joy among all classes of our citizens, at the visit of the President of these United