ing event. And while we rejoice in your opportunity, we rely on your wisdom, to co-operate with our enlightened patriots and legislators, in strengthening our republican institutions, and, under the guidance of heaven, to fix, on a durable basis, the happy destinies of a great and rising nation.

From our unqualified respect of your personal character, as well as from the pledge to be found in a long life devoted to the public good, we have a right to anticipate the most pleasing results. In copying the illustrious examples of the great founders of our republic, you cannot fail to advance the best interests, and the true glory of our common country, and thus to erect in the hearts of your countrymen, an imperishable monument to your own fame. With such feelings, and with such views, in the name and in behalf of the citizens of Windsor, we bid you a cordial welcome to this village, and to the state of Vermont.

The President's Answer.,.

FELLOW-CITIZENS-I have approached the state of Vermont, with peculiar sensibility. On a former visit, immediately after the 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 honourably sustained. I shall ever rely on their wisdom in the councils of the nation, as on their courage in the field.

The confidence now universally felt in the stability and efficiency of our government, is the surest pledge, that all judicious measures adopted for the common good of the nation, will receive the cordial support of all honest and honourable men.

I rejoice with you, that a just sense of the national interests, and more generous feelings pervade the country. It is by cherishing these, with a liberal reference to the prosperity and happiness of the whole union, that the high destiny of our nation can be attained.

The true principles of our policy are now well understood. The people have only to maintain them with vigour and economy, and all the great objects of national concern, under a benign Providence, will be secured to ourselves and our posterity.

JAMES MONROE.

Admiration from the Female world is one of the most delightful rewards of valour. From the romantic ages of chivalry to this time, the approving smiles of the Fair has “ smoothed the wrinkled front” of the veteran, and made him glory in the scars received in defending them. The young ladies of Windsor, were determined that their “ Patron and Friend” should not leave their delightful village without some manifestation of their respect. They addressed the President in the following elegant manner.

SIR-Impressed with a high sense of the honour which the inhabitants of this village receive in being permitted to welcome the Chief Magistrate of the Union, we beg leave, in behalf of the young Ladies of the Windsor Female Academy, to present you our humble tribute of respect; which, although from the juvenile female pen, will not, we trust, be unacceptable, or deemed entirely beneath your notice. While we regard the President of the nation as the protector of our country, the preserver of our rights, and dearest privileges, and the guardian of our literary institutions, our hearts glow with feelings of gratitude, and we delight to address him by the endearing appellation of Patron and Friend. Permit us, Sir, 'respectfully to congratulate you on your safe arrival in the State of Vermont, on the present happy and prosperous situation of the country over which you are called to preside; that the Olive of peace is now waving where the Clarion of war was heard; and that your entrance upon public duties, both arduous and important, is at a time when, from the

general peace and tranquillity that reign, you can have leisure to promote the happiness and literary attainments of the rising generation. We feel happy, that the visit, by which our northern states have been so highly honoured, has been undertaken at a time, when every thing must have combined to render it pleasant to yourself, as well as to the people; and we believe, that their reception of you, has been, and will continue to be such, as is consonant to their views of respect for your private character, and the elevated station you have the honour, with so much dignity to fill, as the President of the United States. That you may long live in the affections of a free and enlightened people, and that success may crown all your exertions for the public good, is the ardent wish of many a patriotic, although youthful female bosom.

YOUNG LADIES,

ANSWER.

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 with which I have been honoured by the Young Ladies of the Female Academy at 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.

The members of the Windsor
Female Academy.

JAMES MONROE.

The town of Windsor if regarded, either for the natural beauty of its situation, or the taste of its inhabitants, would excite the admiration of the Tourist. It has no important public building except the state prison, al

though the Legislature of the state has often held its sessions here. From the elevated grounds near it, the distant view of the Monadnock mountain to the east, the Green Mountains, and the Escutno to the west; the beautiful Connecticut and the picturesque scenery of the country upon its shores, furnish a prospect which may be gazed upon with delight, and which must be left with regret. The population of this place in 1810 was 2,800.

"The President, upon the 23d, left Windsor, and was received by the citizens of Woodstock, with such demonstrations of regard, as are the spontaneous offering of a free people to a respected Chief Magistrate. A part of the Committee of Arrangements, with a cavalcade of citizens, under the direction of Mr. Hall, and a detachment of cavalry, commanded by Capt. Mack, met the President at Hartland, and escorted him to Woodstock. A discharge of artillery announced the arrival of the President in the village, which he entered on horseback, at 10 o'clock, A. M. The citizens were formed in lines on each side of the street; and as the President advanced towards them, he alighted; and, conducted by Mr. Hall, and accompanied by Mr. Mason, his secretary, and Col. Sullivan, he passed up the procession to Mr. Pratt's, where he was welcomed by Mr. Marsh and Mr. Swann, of the Committee of Arrangements, and received under the discharge of a national salute, from Capt. Warner's company of artillery, from Barnard. The following address was then presented by Mr. Hutchinson."

TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

SIR-The citizens of Woodstock and vicinity, meet the Chief Magistrate of the United States in this place, with peculiar pleasure and satisfaction. They consider it an auspicious event, and ominous of good to their beloved country, that you, Sir, have deemed it proper, at this time, to visit, in person, the various parts of the United States, that you might become personally acquainted, not only with the strength and resources of the country, but, by mingling with various classes ofthe community, in the different States, might be conversant with the religious, moral, and political opinions of the people; and notwithstanding the variety of these, might witness the unanimity with which they are universally devoted to the best interests, and to the support of the free and excellent political institutions of the country; and how much they delight to honour those, who, with dignity and propriety, preside over them.

They hope and believe, that this patriotic and beneficent deportment, on the part of the President of the United States, will tend to heal the divisions and conciliate the feelings of the different members of community, and draw more closely the bonds of union and interest among the people of the United States.

With these views, and with feelings of the greatest personal respect, they bid you a cordial welcome to their vicinity; and pray, that under the guidance and direction of Divine Providence, you may be a happy. instrument of all that good to our country, which can inspire the heart of a wise, benevolent, and enlightened

statesman.

To this the President made a very appropriate answer, reciprocating the sentiments contained in the Address. He observed, among other things, that in the prosecution of his Tour, he was happy to visit the State of Vermont; and that he now met, with satisfaction, the citizens of Woodstock; that he felt duly