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 THE PORTSMOUTH JUBILEE 
 
 RECEPTION 
 
 SONS OF PORTSMOUTH RESIDENT ABROAD, 
 
 JULY 4TH, 1853. 
 BY THE CITY AUTHORITIES AND THE CITIZENS OF PORTSMOUTH. 
 
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 DECORATIONS, SPEECHES, SENTIMENTS, 
 
 POKTSMOUTH, N. H. 
 
 C. W. BREV/STER & SON, PUBLISHERS. 
 
 1853.
 
 
 THE PORTSMOUTH JUBILEE. 
 
 RECEPTION 
 
 SONS OF PORTSMOUTH RESIDENT ABROAD, 
 
 JULY 4TH, 1853, 
 
 CITY AUTHORITIES AND THE CITIZENS OF PORTSMOUTH. 
 
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 C. W. BREWSTER & SON, PUBLISHERS 
 1853
 
 ON THE HOMAQE OF HER SONS. 
 
 BY REV. CHARLES BURROUGHS, D. D. 
 
 AN INTRODUCTORY, PREPARED AT THE SOLICITATION OF THE PUBLISHERS. 
 
 "I shall enter on no encomium upon her. She needs none. There she is. Behold her and 
 judge for yourselves. There is her history ; the world knows It by heart. The past, at least, 
 is secure." Webster. 
 
 The suggestion that the Sons of Portsmouth, settled or resident in other 
 places, should visit together their native city, and celebrate together the last 
 birthday of their nation's Independence, was extremely felicitous, and at the 
 same time very creditable to the heads and hearts of those, from whom it em 
 anated. It was a suggestion, well calculated to revive and increase the excel 
 lent sentiment of local attachment, to strengthen tho ties of brotherhood, to 
 awaken a warmer love of country, and to kindle resolutions of loftier virtue. 
 Local attachments are always laudable, and should ever be encouraged. Oar 
 sentiments, affections, and tastes are necessarily connected with them. Natural 
 scenery, the beings by whom we are surrounded, and indeed all external cir 
 cumstances, which affect the youthful mind, are among the mightiest agents or 
 elements in the formation of character. The cloud-piercing mountains, the 
 flowing river, the placid lake, the swelling sail, the waving forests, the busy 
 city, and the scenes of pastoral life mould the elements of the intellect and 
 dispositions of the heart. Whatever be the circumstances, by which we are 
 surrounded, they ever become dear to us. 
 
 E'en the wild torrent and the mountain's roar 
 But bind us to our native mountains more. 
 
 V 0f coarse the suggestion, to which we have alluded, was instantly received with 
 enthusiasm by the sons of Portsmouth, whose avocations and duties had called 
 them away from their native city to find homes in other places. They responded 
 to the call with prompt and generous action, well-arranged operations, and 
 ample pecuniary contributions. Our city authorities evinced the most noble 
 feelings on this occasion, gave it their most cordial sanction, and voted a lib 
 eral appropriation. Exultingly, and at the appointed time, judiciously selected 
 for the outpouring of their affection and patriotism, a multitude of the sons of 
 Portsmouth, leaving behind them their cares and duties, met on this, their 
 native soil ; and beneath a wide-spread tent in an open field, and with the 
 blessing of a most auspicious sky, talked over the scenes of their early days, 
 and enjoyed a brilliant commingling at a happy banquet ; praising their city, 
 its associations and history ; seeking to do it honor ; and manifesting a noblo 
 pride and joy that they were the sons of Portsmouth. 
 
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 Nor was it without sufficient reasons that they were here assembled, on our 
 national jubilee, to pay filial homage to the place of their birth. Their natal 
 city had claims on their affection and praise. Her antiquity, history, institu 
 tions, scenery, and great men speak most eloquently in commendation of her. 
 
 As for antiquity, our city is one of the earliest discovered and first settled places 
 of New England. In the beginning of the seventeenth century some merchants 
 of Bristol, England, having formed a private company for the investigation of 
 this country, employed for that service Capt. Martin Pring, of Bristol, a skilful 
 navigator, and much praised by Gorges. They placed under his command two 
 vessels auspiciously named the Speedwell and the Discoverer. In the year 1603 
 he set sail for America, and was enabled to speed so well, as to be the first discoverer 
 of New Hampshire. Just two hundred and fifty years since he entered the 
 channel of our river, and explored it for three or four leagues. He landed on this 
 shore, and doubtless with his companions trod upon the soil of this city ; for 
 he came in search of sassafras, then esteemed in pharmacy a sovereign panacea. 
 Our city therefore boasts of her antiquity of two hundred and fifty years, and 
 of being the first soil in New Hampshire, that was trod by Englishmen. In 
 1614 the celebrated John Smith, saved from death by the Indian girl, Poca- 
 hontas, examined and extolled the deep waters of the Piscataqua. In 1 623 
 the company of Laconia in England, consisting of Gorges and Mason and 
 many eminent noble and enterprising merchants of London and other cities, 
 selected some choice persons and sent them to establish a plantation on this 
 river. They came here for trade and commerce ; were high-minded men, and 
 had enlarged views of government, religion, and religious toleration. They 
 were not of the Puritan party, for Gorges and Mason had not the same relig 
 ious views with the Massachusetts planters. John Mason, the London mer 
 chant, member of the Plymouth company for the planting, ruling, and govern 
 ing of New England, and first Governor of this province, advanced a large sum 
 of money for the welfare of this place, and may be said to have laid the 
 foundation of its commercial prosperity. David Tomson, a Scotchman, who 
 seems to have been prominent among the planters, who first settled in this 
 town, built a house at Odiorue's Point, a few rods north of the present 
 evident remains of an ancient fort. It was built the very year of his arrival 
 here ; was the first house, which was erected on this plantation, and was 
 afterwards called Mason-Hall. It was not till about eight years afterward 
 that Humphrey Chadbourne built the Great House, which was situated on the 
 bank of the river at the corner of Court street and Water street. It was after 
 wards occupied by Warnerton and by Richard Cutts. In looking now at our 
 ancestry, at their enlightened character, - noble enterprise, liberal views, and 
 their very choice men selected by the Plymouth company, they cannot fail to 
 awaken in us a laudable pride. 
 
 On the 28th of May, 1653, this plantation, "which was accidentally called 
 Slrawberry Bank, by reason of a bank where strawberries were found," was 
 allowed by the General Court at Boston, on the petition of Brian Pendleton 
 and others, to be called Portsmouth, " as being a name most suitable for this 
 place, it being the river's mouth, and good as any in the land." It was also 
 the name of the English city in which John Mason was born. The number of 
 families then was between fifty and sixty. " The line of the township was 
 ordered to reach from the sea by Hampton line to Wynnacot river." Our planters 
 were so industrious and successful, as to be able to send corn to the early sufferers 
 at Plymouth. The first edifice erected here for public worship was an Episcopal 
 church. It was built at least as early as the year 1639 in what is now called 
 Church street and formerly Church lane, and northerly of the Court House. A 
 parsonage-house, erected at the same time, was situated in Pleasant street, a 
 few rods north of the Universalist meeting-house. The parishioners made 
 choice of llichard Gibson, an Episcopalian clergyman, as their pastor, being
 
 the first minister that was ever settled in this town ; and the worship was ac 
 cording to the ritual of the English church. He remained here about four 
 years, and in the year 1642 returned to England. 
 
 In the year 1634 Francis Williams was appointed Governor of the plantation. 
 He was a discreet and'sehsibte matly accomplished in his manners and accep 
 table to the people. He collected about him many valuable men, whose ex 
 ample and influence were of the best order. These circumstances gave a high 
 character to the town. Its reputation was so great, that it was always selected 
 in the days of the colonial government by many persons as a most desirable 
 place of residence ; and for many years it was the home of the royal governors 
 and of the king's council. 
 
 It has been distinguished for men of patriotism Here lived William 
 Vaughan, who claimed to be the projector of the siege of Louisburg under 
 Pepperell ; Dr. Cutter, who was a surgeon in that expedition ; Col. Meserve, 
 who was one of its mightiest spirits ; Maj. Hale, -who was an officer in one of 
 the regiments ; and the Rev. Samuel Langdon, who was then a chaplain of the 
 New Hampshire forces. Gen. Whipple, who resided here for the largest por 
 tion of his life, was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. 
 Gov. Langdon was always a devoted friend to his country; went to Bennington, 
 as a volunteer in the army after the capture of Cornwallis ; and was at Rhode 
 Island with a detachment, while the British troops were there stationed. He, 
 with Gen. Sullivan, seized at the fort in the mouth of our harbor, one hundred 
 barrels of gunpowder : and so promptly conveyed them to Bunker Hill, that 
 they did service on the memorable seventeenth of June. He had the honor of 
 presiding in the Senate when Gen. Washington was elected President of the 
 United States, and had the supreme honor of announcing that election 
 to Congress. He with John Pickering and Peirce Long were delegates to the 
 convention for the adoption of the federal constitution, and most thoroughly 
 supported it. Long commanded a regiment in the revolutionary war, and was 
 a member of the old Congress. We might mention many others, who have 
 contended valiantly for our country. It is a matter of pride to us that the 
 greatest of American patriots, Washington, has walked in our streets, fished 
 in our harbor, slept in our city, engaged here in public worship as a reverent 
 observer of Sunday, and received with favor the homage of our citizens. Hence 
 the sons of Portsmouth have powerful authority and example for cherishing 
 the spirit of patriotism. 
 
 In relation to letters and the patronage of literature, we can speak of our 
 city with no small satisfaction. When Harvard College was apparently in a 
 hopeless condition, during the latter part of Dr. Chauncey's presidency, and when 
 all its funds did not amount to one thousand pounds, our town was thejirst in 
 that emergency to lend a helping hand to the institution. A voluntary con 
 tribution was made amongthe inhabitants, in 1669 i and the town was authorized 
 to pledge a sum of sixty pounds sterling a year for seven years ensuing, to be used 
 by the overseers, for the advancement of good instruction there. Of this sum 
 Richard Cutts subscribed twenty pounds per annum. The first newspaper, 
 printed in New Hampshire, was printed in this town by Daniel Fowle, in 1756 ; 
 and his printing office was the first establishment of the kind in the Province. 
 A social library was founded here in the year 1750, and the books were chiefly 
 imported from England. We have an Atheneum which was begun about thirty- 
 six years since, and which contains about eight thousand volumes of most 
 choice, valuable and expensive books. James Edward Sheafe and Horace A. 
 Haven have made to it most munificent bequests. We have had among ua 
 most finished scholars. Joseph Stevens Buckminstcr was not only one of our 
 most eloquent preachers, but one of the most intelligent men and beautiful 
 writers known in our country. He may be said to have created a new era in 
 our literature and in the advancement of biblical criticism. Nathaniel Apple-
 
 ton Haven was eminently a man of letters, of rich classical attainments, of 
 poetical genius and refined taste. Jonathan Mitchell Sewall's poetry exhibits 
 high talent, and is marked by vigorous and melodious verse. His patriotic 
 eongs are admirable. Much has been done here in the cause of education by 
 Major Hale, who was a schoolmaster of the first order, who has educated here 
 several thousand scholars ; and he gave for very many years a remarkably 
 elevated tone to the intelligence of our citizens. Major Rogers has given us an 
 account of his Indian expeditions. Alden has printed sermons and volumes of 
 epitaphs. Penhallow has presented us with a history of the wars of New Eng 
 land with the Eastern Indians. Evans hag published a " Pedestrious tour," and 
 his sister a novel on Resignation. The elder Buckminster has blessed us with 
 many excellent discourses. His son's sermons and essays are among the rich 
 est of literary productions. Originality of thought, conclusiveness of reasoning, 
 and a vigorous style mark the sermons of Dr. Parker. Edmund Eoberts has 
 published a valuable volume entitled "An Embassy to the Eastern coasts of Co 
 chin China, Siam and Muscat." Halliburton has left us some sound and sen 
 sible essays. Adams has given us an useful volume of Annals. Woodbury has 
 bequeathed to us a rich legacy of legal learning, political wisdom and practical 
 philosophy. The forensic arguments of Mr. Mason betray such vastness and 
 clearness of thought, such wondrous mental powers, and such logical concln- 
 siveness, as must give immortality to his name. We almost feel as if we could 
 claim Webster's works as a part of our literary honors. It was here that in 
 the year 1812 he wrote his celebrated memorial addressed to Mr. Madison, in re 
 lation to the war with England. It was a document of such prodigious ability, 
 weight, directness and power, as to awaken the astonishment of the community, 
 and lead to the irresistible conviction that he was doubtless one of the greatest 
 men of the nation. It was here and by this act that he first developed and 
 published his colossal powers to- the world. So, too, was fabricated here the 
 effective artillery, which he brought to bear in the case of the Trustees of Dart 
 mouth College. 
 
 We have had among us many distinguished ministers. Their influence 
 which is usually a predominant element in affecting not only the religious and 
 social, but also the literary character of a community, might have been brought 
 forward at the recent jubilee with most effective force. Soon after Richard 
 Gibson's departure came James Parker. In 1658 Joshua Moody was settled 
 here. He was a man of talents, zeal and piety, was honored with an invi 
 tation to the Presidency of Harvard College, modestly declined it, and deserved 
 high praise for boldly condemning all the prosecutions for witchcraft. He 
 was succeeded by Nathaniel Rogers, great grandson of the Martyr, and was 
 here twenty-six years. Dr. Styles was an eminent preacher here, but left his 
 charge to assume the duties of the Presidency of Yale College. Dr. Samuel 
 Haven blessed the town for fifty-four years by his able discourses and exemplary 
 life. Timothy Alden, a well-known antiquarian, was his successor. Arthur 
 Brown, of Trinity College, Dublin, a man of great learning and intellectual 
 power, was minister of the Episcopal Church for thirty-seven years. He was 
 succeeded by Ogden and Willard. 
 
 Dr. Langdon preached here twenty seven years, wrote a valuable book on 
 the Revelation of St. John, and a summary of Doctrine and Practice, and was 
 an able President of Harvard College. He and Col. Blanchard made a map 
 of the State. Dr. Buckminister was a celebrated divine among us for thirty- 
 three years. Mr. Putnam faithfully devoted himself to the duties of his clerical 
 profession among us for about twenty years. He was was succeeded by Holt 
 and Clark. Dr. Parker, who stood very high in the estimation of the public 
 for talents and judgment, labored here successfully for about thirty years. 
 Besides these valuable men, we had Emerson, Drowne, Fitch, Ballon, Streeter, 
 Turner, King, Noah Parker, Smith, Howe, Jones, Millard, Harris, Kilton,
 
 Stow, Crawford, Naylor, Brown, Waterbury, Townc, Walton, Humphrey and 
 many others truly deserving our praise. Samuel Parker, who was a Bishop of 
 the Episcopal Church of Massachusetts, was born in this town. 
 
 We have had eminent physicians. Among them were Clement and Hall 
 Jackson, Joseph Peirce, Ammi R. Cutter, who practiced here sixty years ; his 
 son, William Cutter, Joshua Brackett, the learned and beloved Pierrepont, 
 the energetic and skilful Cheever. 
 
 Among our eminent lawyers we mention J. M. Sewall, Chief Justice Picker 
 ing, Richard Evans, Judge Sherburne, Judge Parker, Edward St.Loe Livermore, 
 Edward Cutts, Webster and Mason. 
 
 Among bur merchants have been John Cutts, whose wife Ursilina was killed 
 by the Indians, the Wibirds, the two 3ohn '" Wentworths, Benning Wentworth, 
 Daniel Rindge, Pierce Long, Theodore Atkinson, Pjailiallaws, Mark Hunk- 
 ing Wentworth, Henry Sherburne, the two Langdons, Jaffreys, Sheafes, Col. 
 Moffatt, Col. Warner, Manning, Gardner, Goddard, Col. Gaines, Peirces, 
 Marsh, Longs, Rundlett, Parrotts, Rices, Ladds, SJiapley, Havens and others. 
 One of our ablest men, John Peirce. Esq. commissioned by the Masonian 
 proprietors, settled their long continued and vexatious suits, to the satisfaction 
 of all parties, and ever through life secured the highest regard and confidence 
 of the community. Gov. John Wentworth and Charles Mary Wentworth, two 
 of our most illustrious men, were Baronets. We have had among our teachers, 
 beside the renowned Major Hale, the pious and devoted Amos Tappan, Hurl- 
 but, Morse, Dr. Coffin and others. Our schools have been of a high order, 
 and at present are not surpassed by those of any other city. Very many of 
 our sons have been educated at the Colleges of Harvard and Dartmouth, and 
 have done us honor. 
 
 In relation to ship building, we are certainly entitled to the highest praise. 
 The first ship of war, ever built on this side of the Atlantic ; the first line of 
 battle ship which was built by our government ; and the Congress, the largest 
 and best frigate now in our navy, were built here. Seventeen of our national 
 ships have been built here ; and two more are on the stocks. We are 
 distinguished, too, for the number, speed, beauty and size of the merchant ves 
 sels, which have been constructed in this place. Between the year 1800 and the 
 year 1850, no less than 486 vessels have been built in this harbor ; and 218 of 
 them were ships. Their tonnage amounted to 126,000. The elder Badger, 
 now deceased, built one hundred vessels. We cannot enumerate the many 
 other vessels built here. 
 
 Our city is remarkable for its noble, safe and capacious harbor, which de 
 serves the praise bestowed on the harbor of Portsmouth in England, which has 
 been called the king's bed-chamber and the peculiar residence of Neptune- 
 Never did a more beautiful river than the Piscataqua roll its waves into the 
 sea. Its current of more than five miles in an hour; its depth, at low water, 
 of seventy feet ; its resistance to all the power of frost for some miles above the 
 town ; its grand breadth ; and its lovely banks : this combination of singular 
 advantages renders this place one of the most important and interesting naval 
 stations in pur country. Our city is remarkable for the delightful scenery 
 with which it is surrounded. On every elevation is presented a magnificent 
 landscape. The rides around us are filled with enchanting objects. The 
 climate is salubrious. We have ever been uncommonly free from epidemic 
 diseases. Great crimes are here rarely committed, and no execution has 
 taken place among us, since the year 1768. Great intelligence, sound morality 
 and excellent manners pervade our community. There is a remarkable har 
 mony among the various religious denominations. Rarely is to be found a 
 community so exempt from theological feuds and prejudices. The fields 
 are generally well cultivated ; and much attention is paid to the study of 
 agriculture.
 
 With these facts before us, who would not commend the noble feelings, which 
 have actuated the sons of Portsmouth, resident or settled in other places, to 
 meet together and unite in one common jubilee for the purpose of congratu 
 lating each other on the place of their birth, and living over in pleasant remi- 
 niscenses, and talking over in language of rapture, all the delightful associations 
 and endearments of their natal home. Well may every son of Portsmouth on 
 such an occasion say, 
 
 Ah, happy hills ! ah, pleasing shade ! 
 
 Ah, fields beloved in vain ! 
 
 Where once my careless childhood strayed, 
 
 A stranger yet to pain ! 
 
 I feel the gales that from ye blow, 
 
 A momentary bliss bestow, 
 
 As, waving fresh their gladsome wing, 
 
 My weary soul they seem to soothe, 
 
 And, redolent of joy and youth 
 
 To breathe a second spring. 
 
 What a variety of emotions must have affected the hearts of all the sons of 
 Portsmouth, who were present at such a jubilee. They must have felt them 
 selves, as mingling not only with their living friends on that occasion, but with 
 all the departed and great men, who have trod upon this soil. They must 
 have felt, as if the mighty spirits of their ancestors were present at their jubilee, 
 entered into their feelings and animated their souls to increased progress in 
 patriotism and virtue. They must have imagined themselves boldly admonished 
 to be grateful for the high blessings of their birthplace, and to be unwearied in 
 the most diligent efforts to render it deserving of universal admiration and 
 praise.
 
 THE JUBILEE. 
 
 The welcome shout rang loud and high, 
 Joy kindled every beaming eye ; 
 Each bosom caught the joyous strain 
 That welcomed home the loved again. 
 The arches, wreathed in living green, 
 Bent kindly o'er the festive scene, 
 And breathed in words of friendship dear, 
 " Oh, wanderers, ye are welcome here !" 
 A voice seemed in the very air, 
 That shouted, WELCOME ! everywhere. 
 Thrice welcome, brothers ! sang the breeze 
 Thrice welcome ! whispered back the trees 
 Thrice welcome ! echoed wood and river. 
 Thus would we hail our children ever. 
 
 Early in May a few lines appeared in the Boston Post, 
 giving notice that it was the intention of some of the sons 
 of Portsmouth, resident in Boston, to visit the home of their 
 childhood on the approaching anniversary of National Inde 
 pendence, and inviting others to join them. This spark 
 from the flint, or rather in this case we should say the 
 granite, soon kindled up a flame which could not be sub 
 dued, and no one seemed disposed to subdue it if he could. 
 A preliminary meeting of the Portsmouth residents in Boston 
 was called, and the number which attended was surprising 
 to all. They made the preliminary arrangements and ad 
 journed. 
 
 On the evening of the 2d of June the first movement was 
 made in Portsmouth by the passage of the following in the 
 Common Council: 
 
 It being understood informally that the natives of Portsmouth resident in 
 Boston and in other distant places purpose to visit this city on the approaching 
 anniversary of our National Independence, therefore, 
 
 Resolved, That the City Council extend to all such a cordial invitation, and 
 that a committee of three on the part of the Common Council, with such as 
 the Board of Aldermen may add, be appointed to make suitable arrangements 
 for their reception, when any communication may be received from their 
 committees.
 
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 The resolution was concurred in, and the committees 
 appointed were as follows : Aldermen Brown, Knowlton, 
 Jenkins, Colcord, Stackpole, Dame. Of the Common Coun 
 cil, Messrs. Haven, Todd, Laighton, Claggett, Rand and 
 Gerrish. Mayor Walker and President Rowe were also 
 added. A meeting of the citizens was called and the follow 
 ing gentlemen were appointed to co-operate with the city 
 committee : Ichabod Goodwin, Christopher S. Toppan, 
 William P. Jones, Jonathan M. Tredick, Henry F. Wendell, 
 Albert R. Hatch, Geo. N. Carleton, Samuel R. Cleaves, 
 Richard Jenness^ William H. Sise, George L. Tread we 11, 
 Samuel Storer, John Buzzell, William P. Walker. 
 
 This Committee of Arrangements subdivided their duties 
 as follows : 
 
 On Invitation and Reception The whole board of Comraittee. 
 
 On Conference with Boston and New- York Committees Messrs. Colcord, 
 
 Jenkins, Goodwin, Toppan and Tredick. 
 On Marshals and Escort Messrs. Jenkins, Colcord, Laighton, Jenness, Sise 
 
 and Hatch. 
 
 On Banners Messrs. Claggett, Band, Stackpole, Cleaves, Wendell and Walker. 
 On Music Messrs. Haven, Todd, Brown, Carleton, Bazzell and Hatch. 
 On Bells, Salute and Fireworks Messrs. Knowlton, Gerrish, Dame, Wendell 
 
 and Walker. 
 On Location of Tent Messrs. Haven, Laighton, Claggett, Storer, Carletoc 
 
 and Treadwell. 
 On Collation Messrs. Brown, Rand, Claggett, Laighton, Knowlton, Cleaves,. 
 
 Jones, Storer,. Carleton, Treadwell and Toppan. 
 On Toasts Messrs. Hatch, Storer and Haven. 
 On Speakers Messrs. Brown, Haven, Laighton, Jenkins, Hatch, Sise and 
 
 Buzzell. 
 
 On Arches Messrs. Cleaves, Treadwell r Sise, Storer and Wendell. 
 On Issue of Tickets Messrs. Goodwin, Haven r Jones, Jenness, Hatch, Jenkins 
 
 and Rowe. 
 
 On Levee The Committtee on Collation. 
 On Finance Messrs. Goodwin, Haven and Todd. 
 
 The arrangements having been made thrrs far in Ports 
 mouth, a general meeting of the Sons of Portsmouth in 
 Boston was called to be held at Cochituate Hall on the 
 10th of June. As there was something poetic in the idea of 
 the visit, the muses were invoked to give interest to the 
 occasion. . The appeal went forth as follows : 
 
 Come rally, boys ! Awake, awake ! 
 
 Hear old affection on you calling ; 
 Tour Childhood's Home appeal doth make. 
 
 On willing ears may it be falling ; 
 It calls you from- your busy care, 
 
 To meet her in her pleasant places, 
 Her old regard again to share, 
 
 Mid smiles from " old familiar faces."
 
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 Each nook and haunt remembered well 
 
 Will send its hundreds forth to meet yon, 
 Joy's loudest note will widely swell, 
 
 Full many a smiling face will greet you ; 
 And hell and gun and flame and tongue 
 
 Will blend their notes in peal sonorous. 
 Familiar as of old they rung, 
 
 And " WELCOME ! 'WELCOME !" be the chorus. 
 
 Crowd not the generous impulse back 
 
 That prompts the thought in which you gather, 
 'Twere well to leave life's dusty track " 
 
 And turn in filial duty hither 
 To once again in union join 
 
 Mid scenes that know your life's unsealing, 
 And at the well-remembered shrine 
 
 Kindle anew the heart's true feeling. 
 
 The assemblage at Cochituate Hall was large. It was 
 called to order by Isaac W. Frye, when Francis E. Parker 
 (son of the late Rev. Dr. Nathan Parker, of Portsmouth,) 
 was chosen President, Samuel H. Gookin and M. P. Ken- 
 nard, Vice Presidents, and John E. Abbott and Theodore S. 
 Harris, Secretaries. 
 
 The President made some brief and pertinent remarks 
 upon taking the chair, after which a committee consisting of 
 Messrs. George A. Fields, William A. Kennard, Alfred M. 
 Beck, William E. Abbott and Andrew C. Mudge, was 
 appointed to retire and select a Committee of Arrangements. 
 
 Mr. James T. Fields presented the following resolutions : 
 
 Resolved, That the natives and former residents of Portsmouth, N. H. now 
 living in Boston and its vicinity, join in an excursion to that city on the 
 approaching 4th of July. 
 
 Resolved, That the Committee of Arrangements chosen by this meeting to 
 carry into effect the business matters of that day, be instructed to convey by 
 advertisement or otherwise, to all natives and former residents of Portsmouth, 
 wherever they may now be living, an invitation to unite with us of Boston in 
 our anticipated gathering among the haunts of our early days. 
 
 Resolved, That we who are here assembled to-night will take an active part 
 in aiding our committee in their endeavors to make the coming anniversary 
 of the Declaration of Independence a day*of unalloyed happiness to all who 
 have left, but have not forgotten the good old town^of Portsmouth. 
 
 Mr. Fields made a short and exceedingly apt and appro 
 priate speech, and was followed by Rev. T. Starr King, 
 Samuel H. Gookin, Charles L. Woodbury, Matthew Hale 
 Smith and Daniel R. Sheafe. All the speeches were spirited. 
 The resolutions were unanimously adopted. 
 
 Mr. Kennard, from the Committee to nominate a Com 
 mittee of Arrangements, reported the following list:
 
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 S. W. Waldron, William F. Parrott, George W. Bazin, 
 
 Isaac W. Frye, A very Plumer. Jr. James T. Fields, 
 
 William H. Hill, M. P. Kennard, James H. Weeks, 
 
 B. P. Shillaber, John H. Cheever, J. Monroe Gookin, 
 
 Theodore S. Harris, John E. Abbott, Gideon Beck, 
 
 True M.Bali, Garland Turell, Josiah G. Batchelder, 
 
 John L. Badger, Albert Remick, Jacob Wendell, Jr. 
 
 Charles L. Woodbnry, H. H. Tnttle, John D. Parker. 
 Alfred C. Mudge, 
 
 The report was accepted, and it was also voted that the 
 government of the meeting be added to the committee, and 
 the meeting was adjourned. 
 
 At the adjourned meeting, June 28th, held at Cochituate Hall, Francis 
 E. Parker, the President, took the chair at 8 o'clock, and informed the 
 meeting of the action of its committee, of the half-price arrangements 
 which had been made with the Eastern Railroad, which run from the 
 Thursday before to the Friday after the Fourth of July, of the exten 
 sive preparations made by the people of Portsmouth to welcome back the 
 fugitive members of their families, upon this interesting occasion, and 
 enforcing emphatically upon the " Sons," in view of the general invitation 
 which had been extended to them at home, that they should not be recre 
 ant to such a call. 
 
 Mr. Charles Tappan, the eldest of the company, made some very inte 
 resting colloquial remarks, detailing his experience, as a resident of Ports 
 mouth in years gone by, where he spent the period which an elegant 
 novel-writer has described as " the pleasantest time of our lives" the 
 period of courtship, and where he married his wife, and laid the founda 
 tion of his future fortune. Mr. Marble and Mr. Adams made some inci 
 dental remarks, and Mr. Matthew Hale Smith made an earnest, eloquent 
 and patriotic speech, upon the interesting occasion which drew the Sons 
 of Portsmouth together, and the patriotic associations which were con 
 nected with the Day. 
 
 It was stated that the tickets for the excursion were open, and were 
 intended, not only for the children of Portsmouth sons and daughters 
 as well as for the former residents, but for their whole families. There 
 was no limit whatever, which by any implication could exclude any one, 
 who from any association with Portsmouth Avas joining in the excursion. 
 The invitation extended to all. 
 
 COMMITTEES. 
 
 On Finance James H. Weeks, John D. Parker, J. Munroe Gookin. 
 On Railroad I. W. Frye, G. W. Bazin, J. Munroe Gookin. 
 On Banners and Decora tions James T. Fields, James H. Weeks, S. H. Gookin . 
 On Advertising and Printing G. W. Bazin, H. H. Tuttle, B. P. Shillaber. 
 On Towns and Corporations James T. Fields, J. H. Cheever, J. G. Batchelder. 
 On Music M. P. Kennard, John E. Abbott, Theo. S. Harris. 
 On Subscriptions John H. Cheever, Jacob Wendell, Jr., John E. Abbott, Theo. 
 
 S. Harris, Albert Remick. 
 
 On Military Escort J. H. Weeks, John H. Cheever, M. P. Kennard. 
 On Marshal and Treasurer John D. Parker, M. P. Kennard, John E. Abbott, 
 
 Isaac W. Frye, J. G. Batchelder. 
 
 The assembly adjourned to meet at Creek Bridge, or " Frenchman's 
 Lane," where those who went down on the morning of the Fourth were 
 landed from the cars.
 
 13 
 
 In the City of New- York, on the 13th of June, a meeting 
 of the residents who were natives of Portsmouth, was called 
 at the Irving House. There was a goodly gathering on the 
 occasion. Hon. W. A. Walker was called to the chair, and 
 Mr. W. G. Wendell was appointed Secretary. A list of 
 names was opened, and some seventy or eighty Portsmouth 
 men were found to be present. After the invitation of the 
 municipality of Portsmouth to the Sons in that place to join 
 them in the celebration of the approaching anniversary of 
 our National Independence had been read, a committee con 
 sisting of Messrs. G. F. Peterson, J. Franklin Pierce and 
 James L. Wise, was appointed to report a proper course of 
 proceedings in relation to the invitation to report at a meet 
 ing to be held at the Irving house on the next Friday evening. 
 
 The adjourned meeting on the 17th of June was well 
 attended, and enthusiastic. A large company was made up 
 for the excursion, to be attended by a band of music. 
 
 In the City of Lowell, a preliminary meeting of the natives 
 and former residents of Portsmouth was held at committee 
 room in City Hall building, Monday evening, June 13th, to 
 make arrangements, in connection with the Sons of Ports 
 mouth resident in Boston, for a visit to their " old home" on 
 ihe coming anniversary of the 4th of July, in conformity with 
 an invitation from the city authorities and citizens generally 
 of that ancient town. Oliver March, Esq. was chosen chair 
 man, and B. H. Pen hallow, Secretary, The following reso 
 lution was unanimously adopted : 
 
 Resolved, That we accept with pleasure the invitation of the city authorities 
 of Portsmouth to pass the approaching Fourth of July with the " old folks at 
 home," and will use our best endeavors to procure a full delegation, on the 
 occasion, from this city of our adoption. 
 
 A committee was appointed to make such arrangements as they may 
 deem proper, and report at a future meeting. The following are the 
 names of the gentlemen composing said committee, viz.: 
 Oliver March, J. G. Pcabody, J. L. Huntress, 
 
 Hiram Dennett, Horatio Fogg, Samuel Kinsman, 
 
 Alfred Gilman, Joseph Raynea, Joseph H. Towne, 
 
 W. G. Wise, B. T. Hardy, Thomas Ordway, 
 
 M. G. Howe, R. N. Tullock, J. A. Knowles, " 
 
 J.P.Walker, L. R. Streeter, Charles H. Dennett, 
 
 B. H. Penhallow, Leonard Huntress. 
 
 Subsequently a committee of conference, consisting of three gentle 
 men, to whom the chairman of the meeting was added, was appointed to 
 confer with the Boston committee. The committee consisted of Messrs. 
 W. G. Wise, J. P. Walker, Alfred Gilman, and Oliver March. 
 
 After these and other meetings in the above and several other places, 
 the arrangements were completed.
 
 14 
 
 The first formal reception of the returned Sons was on Saturday morn 
 ing, July 2d, -when the New- York delegation, attended by the band of 
 the U. S. ship North-Carolina, "were received at Frenchman's Lane at 10 
 o'clock. The Portsmouth City Greys, under Capt. Towle, received them 
 by a salute, and escorted them to the City Hall. On Saturday afternoon 
 the New- York Sons gave a dinner to the city authorities and invited 
 guests, at the Rockingham House, at which much good feeling prevailed, 
 and some short addresses were delivered by Hon. William A. Walker, 
 who presided, and by Messrs. Ichabod Goodwin, Abner Greenleaf, and 
 others. 
 
 On the morning of the Fourth, the pent-up fires which had been kept 
 in with some difficulty over the Sabbath, burst forth before the early dawn. 
 Although there were some apprehensions of a rainy day, there was in 
 consequence no dampness of the spirits. The morning passed off with 
 its guns, its bells, its squibs, and its crackers ; and moving among the 
 masses was seen an uncouth procession of Fantastics, a burlesque of a 
 military training. The pompous reviewing officers attended in a carriage, 
 and attracted a large share of public curiosity. Following it was a party 
 from the country, whose steed exceeded not the speed the law allows, 
 although " moral suasion," in the shape of two ears of corn fastened two 
 inches in front of his nose, was evidently to the beast a great incentive to 
 exertion. Close following, as a natural accompaniment to a " training," 
 was a band of sable minstrels, whose performances, which created much 
 merriment, concluded with the " Camptown Races," in which they dis 
 tanced all competitors. There was in this exhibition nothing to offend 
 the strictest delicacy, which has not always been the case in these exhibi 
 tions in other places. 
 
 The boys made a laughable exhibition as " Odds and Ends," in which 
 Mrs. Partington and Ike, Lucy Long and her baby, were conspicuous 
 features. They were about most of the forenoon, and their grotesque 
 appearance elicited great merriment. 
 
 At ten o'clock there was a general gathering of the citizens, military, 
 &c. at the west end of Islington street, from the Creek to Frenchman's 
 Lane, to receive the visitors from Boston, Lowell, Newburyport, &c 
 About a dozen well-filled cars soon arrived, and were saluted by a dis 
 charge of artillery by the Rockingham Guards. After the friendly salu 
 tations with old acquaintances who gathered thick around, the Boston 
 delegation, accompanied by the Boston Brass Baud, were marshalled in
 
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 ranks. Advancing in front of the centre, the Mayor of Portsmouth, in 
 
 behalf of the City Council and citizens, gave a welcome in the following 
 
 terms: 
 
 Sons of Portsmouth, residents of Boston, New York, tyc. 
 
 On this anniversary of our National Independence, we bid 
 you an earnest, heartfelt welcome to our city and to your 
 birth place. Words are not adequate fully to express what 
 our hearts feel. Never perhaps has an event been anticipated 
 with more grateful joy by all our citizens without distinction 
 of sect or party, than this your return to the scenes of your 
 childhood, and I am but uttering the feelings which swell in 
 ten thousand hearts at this very hour, when I say, welcome, 
 Sons of Portsmouth, welcome home! 
 
 Some of you have been long away. You have passed 
 through many and great changes. You have become resi 
 dents in larger cities, cities of greater political and commer 
 cial importance, you have risen to posts of honor and 
 influence there, and we rejoice in your success. But we 
 have your presence with us here to-day as a proof that no 
 change or elevation has obliterated the memory of this your 
 native city, or cooled the ardor of your affections for this the 
 home from which you went forth. You rniss to-day many 
 a familiar countenance and many a well known form. But 
 you stand amidst the scenes of your earliest days, you walk 
 the same streets you then trod, look upon the homes of your 
 infancy, upon the school houses in which you were first 
 taught, upon the churches in which you first worshipped 
 God, and upon the graves of your fathers. Bound by so 
 many tender and hallowed associations to this city, it can 
 never be that it will cease to have a place in your memory 
 and in your hearts. And surely, as we look upon you here 
 gathered, surely may Portsmouth be proud of her sons. And 
 if she cannot vie with other cities in the rapidity of her growth, 
 in the extent of her commerce, or in her political influence, 
 she may safely challenge any city in the land to a comparison 
 with her in what is of far more worth, the virtue of her daugh 
 ters, the enterprise of her sons. 
 
 Again we bid you welcome, one and all, welcome home ! 
 May the scenes of this day rekindle in your affections remem 
 brances of days long passed, and be the theme of pleasant 
 memories for days and years to come. 
 
 After cheering had subsided, Chief Marshal Samuel H. Gookin, of the 
 Boston delegation, responded as follows :
 
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 Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen : 
 
 It needs no reply from me to assure you of our grateful 
 thanks for the generous welcome you have offered us to-day, 
 We expected that you \vould_be glad to see your wandering 
 sons home again, and that you would give us a hearty greet 
 ing, but we did not expect that you would reserve for us a 
 reception surpassing all others in elegant decoration and rich 
 display, and better far than that, in that richer, grander dis 
 play of feeling which you assure us is now springing from 
 the hearts of all your citizens. 
 
 This day has in itself enough of glorious association to 
 make our meeting one of interest ; but to my mind it is hal 
 lowed and made more glorious when we make it the occa 
 sion for such a gathering as this. We were told by one 
 whose memory will ever be dear to our hearts, to celebrate 
 the day with "bonfires and illuminations." Before we left 
 our native town, it accorded fully with our feelings to give a 
 cordial assent to this suggestion ; but now, when the duties 
 of life, which multiply with our years, have taken from us 
 something of our young enthusiasm, we feel it a more fitting 
 tribute to the day, to join in a celebration like this, which will 
 rekindle the early association of home, and bring those who 
 have sought their fortune abroad to associate together in a 
 closer brotherhood, which will show to us that you continue 
 to feel an interest in our welfare, and watch our progress ; 
 and we trust which will show to you that your sons abroad 
 have done something to add to the fair fame of our dear old 
 native town. 
 
 It is xvell that you should remind us of those sound influ 
 ences of our early life to which we are so largely indebted 
 for whatever of position or success we may have attained. 
 The home, the schools, the churches, aye and the graves of 
 our kindred. How many pleasant and hallowed memories 
 spring from the heart as we repeat them ! We think of them 
 with affectionate interest, pride and gratitude, and return to 
 day with grateful hearts to thank our common mother for all 
 that she has done for us. The occasion is suggestive and 
 fruitful, but I must not indulge in any extended remarks. 
 This is not the time or the place : at a later period in the 
 day we have those in our delegation who will better express 
 to you than I can our heartfelt satisfaction at being here, and 
 our grateful thanks for the splendid and affectionate reception 
 you have tendered us. [Cheers.]
 
 17 
 
 The Procession, formed in the following order, commenced its move 
 ment into the city. It was half a mile in length. 
 
 Andrew J. Beck, Chief Marshal of Civic Procession, his Aids and 
 Assistants being John H. Jackson, Charles W. Marden, Robert Lefavour, 
 William H. Sise, George L. Treadwell, Henry F. Wendell, Benjamin B. 
 Swasey, Amos Trott, and James W. Lefavour. 
 
 FIRST DIVISION. 
 
 Aid. Chief Marshal. Aid. 
 
 East Boston Brass Band. 
 First Artillery Company, under command of Capt. George W. Towle. 
 
 Committee of Arrangements. 
 Mayor and ex-Mayors of Portsmouth. 
 
 Aldermen and City Clerk. 
 
 President and Members of the Common Council and Clerk. 
 Assessors, Overseers and Superintendent of the Poor. 
 
 All other City Officers. 
 
 Preceptor Harris, escorted by his former pupils. 
 
 Sheriff of Rockinghatn and Deputies. 
 
 Members of the State Legislature. 
 
 Reverend Clergy. 
 
 Aid. Marshal. Aid. 
 
 Officers of the Army, Navy and Marine of the United States. 
 
 Naval Constructor and Civil Engineer. 
 Officers of the United States and State Courts, and City Justices. 
 
 Collector and Deputy Collector of the Port of Portsmouth. 
 Naval Officer and Surveyor of the Port of Portsmouth, and Officers of the 
 
 Customs. 
 
 Postmaster and Navy Agent. 
 Members of other city and town governments. 
 
 SECOND DIVISION. 
 Aid. Marshal. Aid. 
 
 Bond's Boston Cornet Band. 
 First Company of Light Infantry, under command of Maj. A. J. Hill. 
 
 Sons of Portsmouth resident in Boston. 
 
 [The Boston Delegation was led by Samuel H. Gookin, Chief Marshal. 
 The other Marshals were Jacob Wendell, Jr., J. F. Shapley, Aids. 
 H. H. Tuttle, Alfred Mudge, John D. Parker, George A. Fields, J. II . 
 Buftbrd, William H. Kennard, William E. Abbott, Theodore S. Harris, 
 Charles M. Foss, A. F. Sise, James F. Hickey, Albert Remick.] 
 
 Sons of Portsmouth resident in Lowell and other places. 
 Aid. Marshal. Aid. 
 
 New- York Band of Music. 
 
 Sons of Portsmouth resident in New- York and Philadelphia. 
 [The New-York Delegation was led by Marshal Archibald A. Peterson.] 
 
 Citizens generally. 
 Company of Continentals. 
 
 Cavalcade. 
 
 Aid. Marshal. Aid. 
 
 INDUSTRIAL PROCESSION. 
 
 Saco Brass Band. 2
 
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 Thomas Norton, Chief Marshal of Industrial Procession, having as Aids 
 and Assistants, Joseph D. Akerman, Abraham Q. Wendell, Frank W. 
 Milksr, Christopher C. Jackson, James M. Locke, Benjamin M. Parker, 
 and Augustus W. Simpson. 
 
 The Industrial Procession, although not so extensive as in 1851, was 
 an interesting expose of Portsmouth skill and manufacture. 
 
 Sflip BUILDING. The first car, drawn by four mammoth oxen, was 
 preceded by the Saco Cornet Band. Even the heavy oxen seemed 
 inspirited by their strains, and stepped quicker and merrier, to the sur 
 prise of those accustomed to their dull wont. The exterior of the car was 
 ornamented with the models of numerous vessels, schooners, brigs, bark^, 
 and ships, all built by George Raynes, dating from 1829 to 1853, with 
 their names and the period of their completion, as follows: 
 
 Ship Athens, 
 
 Mary-Kingsland, 
 
 John-Taylor, 
 
 Kalamazoo, 
 
 Glendoveer, 
 
 Venice, 
 
 Finland, 
 
 Thomas-Wright, 
 
 Kate-Hun tor, 
 
 Tons. Evtti. 
 
 575 1S3D 
 
 797 1839 
 748 1840 
 
 798 1840 
 496 1841 
 617 1841 
 650 1844 
 624 1845 
 732 1846 
 
 Mortimer-Livingston, 748 1847 
 
 Centurion, 745 1847 
 
 Siara, 727 1847 
 
 Jersey, 850 1818 
 
 James-Brown, 997 1849 
 
 North-Atlantic, 799 1849 
 
 Roman, 775 ISoO 
 
 Constantine, 1162 1850 
 
 George-Raynes, 1000 1850 
 
 Sea-Serpent, 1402 1850 
 
 Witch-of-the-Wave,1499 18-51 
 
 Wild-Pigeon, 997 1851 
 
 Orient, 1561 1852 
 
 Tinqua, 669 1852 
 
 Wild-Duck, 861 1853 
 
 Webster, 1700 1853 
 
 Following this car were a company of ship carpenters from Mr. Raynes' 
 yard, who were entertained by Geo. Raynes, jr. and Joseph Perkins, 
 (foreman of the yard) with a collation at the ship-yard, after the procession 
 closed. 
 
 Joaeph Perkins was Chief Marshal of the ship carpenters, assisted by 
 Geo. Raynes, Jr., Daniel Moulton, Marshall W. Post, Samuel G. Folsom. 
 
 BLACKSMITHS. Next, under the appropriate motto, "Sons of Vulcan 
 Arms of Iron, Nerves of Steel" came a spacious Blacksmith's Shop, dec- 
 oruted with spruce and flowers, drawn by four horses. In it were Messrs. 
 Hide and Jackson, the projectors, aided by Mr. S. Willey. The forpe 
 Avas in blast, and with the music of the hammer on the anvil, added no little 
 to the bustle of the day. Their shop bore one other motto "Our forgery 
 ix no counterfeit." 
 
 
 Tons. 
 
 Built. 
 
 Schr. Lucy, 
 
 89 
 
 1829 
 
 
 Pacific, 
 
 69 
 
 1829 
 
 
 Leader, 
 
 137 
 
 1830 
 
 
 BrelilTa S Twins - 
 
 300 
 
 1851 
 
 Br 
 
 5 Planet, 
 
 129 
 
 1828 
 
 
 Franklin, 
 
 198 
 
 1832 
 
 
 Helen-Mar, 
 
 194 
 
 1835 
 
 Ba 
 
 k Olof-Wyk, 
 
 314 
 
 1840 
 
 
 Elvira-Harbeck, 
 
 350 
 
 1848 
 
 Sh 
 
 p Alexander, 
 
 398 
 
 1830 
 
 
 Nestor, 
 
 397 
 
 1831 
 
 
 Harriet-&-Jessie, 
 
 4-53 
 
 1832 
 
 
 Pontiff, 
 
 495 
 
 1833 
 
 
 Rockir.gham, 
 
 514 
 
 1833 
 
 
 Portsmouth, 
 
 520 
 
 1834 
 
 
 SusannahCumming, 
 Harbinger, 
 
 544 
 
 262 
 
 1834 
 1835 
 
 
 Hindoo, 
 
 582 
 
 1835 
 
 
 Isaac-Newton, 
 
 600 
 
 1836 
 
 
 John-Cumin ings, 
 
 721 
 
 1836 
 
 
 Lancashire, 
 
 661 
 
 1836 
 
 
 Henry, 
 
 434 
 
 1837 
 
 
 Nicholas-Biddle, 
 
 784 
 
 1837 
 
 
 Charles, 
 
 486 
 
 1838 
 
 
 Isaac Allerton, 
 
 595 
 
 1838
 
 19 
 
 CALKKRS. The next vehicle was a Boat on wheels, with oakum, pitch 
 kettle and fire : drawn by one horse, and commanded by S. P. Wilson, 
 Shipwright and Calker. 
 
 CORDAGE-MAKERS. A car from Hie Portsmouth Cordage Factory of 
 Messrs. J. Johnson & J. N. Handy, came next, containing samples of 
 their superior cordage, and also men at work spinning and laying up lines. 
 Although this uay be called street t/arn, it is far more substantial than 
 anything else that bears the name. Mottoes : '' Portsmouth Cordage like 
 Portsmouth Ships, A No. 1," " Portsmouth for Cordage fe*rs no rival." 
 
 SEAMEN. S'kip George Washington, Capt. Harrat, passed along the 
 street, propelled by a three-horse power. The pilot was William Pierce. 
 The ship was fully rigged, twenty-six feet in height, had a crew of ten, a 
 small black cook was seated on the caboose: two swivels mounted on the 
 bows were freqaently discharged, and the wLole was an object of much 
 interest. 
 
 JOINKRS. The House Carpenters' and Joiners' Shop was drawn by 
 four oxen, and contained Mr. T. Norton and several busy workmen active 
 with their planes, saws, &c. 
 
 PAINTERS. The House, Sign, and Ornamental Painters occupied the 
 next car, drawn by two horses. Messrs. Bufford, llowell, and Rand were 
 on hand for a job at either " house, ship, or sign and ornamental painting." 
 They exhibited grand specimens of home skill in the paintings of Wash 
 ington, the Hydra, various portraits, &c. They doubtless prepared many 
 sentimental mottoes for others ; they overlooked their own car in this 
 respect, although they personally exhibited an unwritten one "Industry.' 
 
 CABINET-MAKERS. Cabinet Work, by all our Cabinet-makers 
 " Luxurious, Useful, and Ornamental" occupied the next car, drawn 
 by four horses. Messrs. C. E. Lord and J. G. Folsom wre busily em 
 ployed in the workshop, while Messrs. E. Lord and A. T. Joy occupied 
 the salesroom. Among the mottoes were, " We fear no competition,' 
 " Indispensable to comfort." 
 
 MASONS. The Bricklayers and Stucco-workers were in a car drawn 
 by four oxen, with a brick house going up, and on the front, this inscrip 
 tion, " Our work stands the fire." Inside, the men were plastering, and 
 laid a good quantity of brick during the progress of the procession, al 
 though the work did not make very rapid headway. In the after part of 
 the car was a centre-piece of stucco-work enclosing the sign, " Masons 
 and Stucco- workers." The operators were Messrs. S. Reynolds, S. Tre- 
 fethen, Isaac Hayes, and George Hayes. 
 
 TINMEN, &c. Stove, Sheet-iron, and Tin-ware Manufactory, furnished 
 by Messrs. Carleton and Chapman, on a pretty large scale, with a fire, and 
 the Tinmen, Messrs. I. Dow and J. E. Chapman, at work, looking quite 
 natural. We noticed Chilson's Furnace, by Carleton, and prominent in 
 the display the scalloped dishes made by Chapman were distributed to 
 the spectators. The thop was drawn by four oxen. Then came Chap 
 man's Mammoth Coffee-pot in a neat wagon drawn by one horse.
 
 20 
 
 CORDWAINERS. The airy Shoemakers' Shop, next in order, drawn 
 Ly four oxen, was built by Messrs. Hill & Carr, John Slavers, J. C. Carr, 
 and Oren Bragdon. Workmen. From Hill & Carr's : James S. Harts 
 horn (foreman,) Henry Akerman, George Butler, Michael McCarthy. 
 From J. C. Carr's : John Buzzell (foreman,) J. S. Twist, James Clasby. 
 Joseph Pettigrew.. The articles, tastefully displayed, were from the stores- 
 of Messrs. Hill & Carr and J. C. Carr. 
 
 SAD-D-LERS, J. Larrabee, saddler, a vehicle with handsome specimens 
 of work. The beautiful decorations of many of the Marshals' horses were 
 a more extended part of his dispi'ay. 
 
 GOLI> AND* &JLVER SMITHS. Charles T, Emery exposed on a conical 
 set of shelves, in a carriage witb one horse, a brilliant display of silver 
 ware. This- was a neat and attractive feature of the procession. 
 
 REPORTER* Barouche drawn by two grey horses, and filled to over 
 flowing with editors, reporters, &c. containing representations of the four 
 papers in this city, Bosion Journal, Times, and Transcript, New York 
 Herald, &c. Labels en each side, "The Quill." This was an erratic car r 
 and often shot out of its place in the Industrial procession, to see what 
 was going on elsewhere being as often loudly cheered wherever it went. 
 
 PRINTERS, Next followed the Printing Office, dressed in spruce, 
 drawn by four oxen. The old revolutionary Press with the large leather 
 balls, spoke in its impressive silence of th "times which- tried naen's 
 souls." Its feeble sinews could bat Uly bear the impatient labors of our 
 modern children of progress, and sat in awkward dignity beside the rapid 
 lluggle's Press, which by moderate exertion was satiating an eager crowd 
 with its effusions. Beside these, two small presses were in operation. 
 The compositor at his case and the editor in his chair furnished ths com 
 plement of the "press gang," while the telegraph man had his post among 
 the printers, his wires extending overhead. The bust of Franklin, labelled 
 "Franklin the Printer," surmounted the old Pre?s. Each wheel of the 
 vehicle was decorated with mottoes: upon each hub read "The Art of 
 Prmtiny gives" while every spoke, as rays from this centre, finished the 
 sentence with one of the following words : Power, Morality. Educa 
 tion, Tinw, Advancement, Light, Wisdom, Progress, Economy, InteUigence r 
 Loner, Reliyio-n, Knowledge, Patriotism. 
 
 The inscriptions about the office were "The Press ;" "The disciples of 
 Franklin are devotees of Freedom /" "Freedom of the Press indispensable 
 to civic Utterly ;." "The tyrant's foe ihe peoples friend ;" ".4 specimen of 
 the most effective Gun of the Revolution, and of thaw tvhojired the paper 
 bullets ;" "July 4, 1116 the birth-day of liberty ? and attached to the 
 press "The Lever that moves the world." 
 
 Lewis W. Brewster, William W. Dow, and James W. TiMikerman from 
 Journal office; Samuel Gray, George Runnels,. James Townend r from 
 Chronicle office ; George A. Manent, Telegraph- Operator. 
 
 EXPRESSMEN. Jackson & Co. with two wagons, one horse each, loaded' 
 up with packages. 
 
 APOTHECARIES. J. H. Thacher furnished a labelled and" decorated 
 wagon, with lozenges, which were distributed ad libitvw.
 
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 W. R. Preston, labelled wagon, with packages of medicines, goods, &c. 
 among them "Preston's Catholicon" was quite prominent. The hearse 
 horse and driver were employed intended to indicate that the free use of 
 the Catholicon would turn the hearse and driver to a living business. 
 
 AGRICULTCRK was represented by Mr. Drake, in a one horse wagon, 
 decorated, and well fitled with the implements of'huebandry. 
 
 GROCEKS. Represented by Mathes & Varrell, 48 Market street, with 
 a large load of goods, for distribution to customers : drawji by one horse. 
 
 This closed the procession. 
 
 The Precesiion thus organized moved through Islington, Congress, 
 Market, Deer, Vaughan, Congress, Pleasant, Water, State, Summer, 
 Middle to Court street, where it arrived at half-past one o'clock. 
 
 The houses on the streets through which it passed were in many places 
 tastefully decorated, and numerous arches were thrown over the streets. 
 The following are all the decorations of which we took note : 
 
 ISLINGTON (STREET. 
 
 Rufus K. Oxford, nearly opposite Frenchman's Lane, had the front of 
 his premises handsomely decorated. 
 
 The premises of Hosea Crane decorated. 
 
 F. S. Jarvis's residence, No. 75, decorated. 
 
 Mr. Waddell, No. 70, had the front of his residence neatly fitted up. 
 
 William Plaisted, No. 69, had a couple of tri-colored flags suspended 
 across the street, neatly trimmed, bearing the inscription : 
 " Welcome All Welcome Home" 
 
 Andrew H. Jones, No. 59, gate decorated with flags, evergreens, &c. 
 
 Near Thomas Martin's was displayed a beautiful Gothic arch prepared 
 by the neighbors, reaching across the street, handsomely decked with 
 evergreens, festoons, and flowers, and pendant from the centre a fine 
 'basket of various flowers. On the west side, 
 
 " This Western Avenue of your Departure is open to Welcome you." 
 
 On the reverse, 
 " Westward our City's Arms extend to Welcome Home her Sons." 
 
 Hon. Ichabod Goodwin, No. 34, a native of North-Berwick, had erected 
 :across the street in front of his residence a very fine arch, handsomely 
 trimmed with evergreen, wreaths of flowers, &c. It bore the inscription : 
 
 'On the west side, 
 
 "Juhjl, 1853. The Adopted Welcome You" 
 
 On the east, " July 4, 1776." 
 
 Opposite his residence, on a beautiful green plot, this gentleman had 
 constructed a convenient platform for the benefit of spectators assembled 
 to witness the procession as it passed. The whole affair was highly cred- 
 ; table to his liberality and good taste.
 
 22 
 
 Mrs. Halliburton *s mansion, No. 25, was neatly dressed, and ornamented 
 in the centre with a fine portrait of that well-remembered patriot of the 
 revolution, Gapt. Thomas Manning. This portrait in front of the balcony, 
 and the left hand of the lady of the mansion resting upon the portrait of 
 Washington (her two beautiful grandchildren waving flags on either side,) 
 formed one of the prettiest and most striking tableau exhibited. 
 
 Capt. Lewis Barnes, No. 23, displayed the inscription : 
 
 " Welcome to the Sons of Old Strawberry Bank I Welcome to its Formei. 
 
 Residents ! Welcome to All ! Sons of Portsmouth, be ever 
 
 prompt in Virtue's Cause ; be strony for God, your 
 
 Country, and Yourselves !" 
 
 C. TV. Brewster, No. 21, displayed a national flag, gathered in the- 
 centre, under which was the inscription : 
 
 " United as these Glorious Stripes, we give our <H!P ^." 
 
 The residence of James M. Garr, Esq. No. 15, was well decorated. 
 The front yard of Ira Haselton, Esq. displayed arches of evergreen. 
 
 John Knowlton, Esq> No. 10, had his doorway finely trimmed with, 
 folds of blue and white cambric, and displayed the inscription : 
 
 " Our Sons We Welcome you Home on this Joyful A nniversary." 
 
 Joseph M. Edmonds, Esq. No. 9, residence decorated in very good taste. 
 
 Mrs. Thompson, No. 2, entrance tastefully arranged with arches of 
 evergreen and flowers. 
 
 CAEOT STREET. 
 
 At the junction of Cabot and Austin streets was a beautiful quadruple 
 arch, surmounted by a representation of the Goddess of Liberty, and 
 beneath her in evergreen wreaths the titles of all the States in the Con 
 federacy. The arch formed a most beautiful sight. Jt cost about $100, 
 and was erected by subscription among the patriotic residents of the 
 neighborhood. It was designed by Mr. Reed V. Rand- 
 
 CONGRESS STREET. 
 
 The Franklin House was decked with flags pending from each window. 
 Store of Samuel Donnell, No. &, evergreen arches in front. 
 
 William R. Preston, in Congress Block, displayed scrolls in front of 
 his store, surmounted by the bust of Webster. The inscriptions were : 
 
 " Wander where you will, there's no place UK?, home." 
 " Sons of Portsmouth, welcome, thrice welcome to the scenes of your 
 
 childhood !" 
 Under a bust of Webster : 
 
 " They come not all home ,- they still live." 
 " / came here a stranger, and with your Kindred I found a happy home." 
 
 The Messenger office exhibited the motto : 
 
 " Young, but precocious welcome ! boys, welcome /" 
 
 DANIEL STREET. 
 
 The office of the Gazette was appropriately decked, and displayed a 
 handsomely trimmed American flag, with the inscription : 
 
 " N. H. Gazette established 1756, by Daniel Fowled 
 
 The residence of Col. John N. Sherburne was handsomely decorated. 
 The house of Mr. A. Staples was well fitted up.
 
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 MARKET STREET. 
 
 Market street, from Market Square to Bow street, was 
 entirely filled with uniform groined arches, thirteen in 
 number, thirty feet high, tastefully decorated with evergreen. 
 From the apex of each of these depended the name of one 
 of the original thirteen States. 
 
 A separate arch was thrown over Market street, bordering 
 on Market Square. This was tastefully decorated, and bore 
 on a banner ten yards long, in large letters, the following: 
 
 AS CORNELIA, THE ROMAN MOTHER. EXHIBITED TO HER GUEST TILE 
 YOUNG GRACCHII, JUST RETURNED FROM SCHOOL, & EXULTINGLY 
 EXCLAIMED, "BEHOLD! THESE ARE MY JEWELS !" SO PORTSMOUTH 
 PROUDLY EXULTS TO-DAY IN HEP. RETURNED SONS, AND SAYS, 
 "LO! THESE ARE MY ORNAMENTS! 1 ' 
 
 Beneath the State arches, about eight feet from the ground, 
 were the following inscriptions. A few of those reported at 
 the north end were prepared, but not in season to be put up : 
 
 NEW-HAMPSHIRE. 
 
 Portsmouth cannot keep her Boys : 
 
 The World 
 cannot do without them. 
 
 MARKET STREET : 
 
 The School for many of the largest 
 
 cities. 
 
 MASSACHUSETTS. 
 
 America ! 
 
 Thy flag now floats highest under 
 Heaveu. 
 
 Agriculture, Commerce, and the 
 
 Mechanic Arts : 
 supporting not supplanting each other. 
 
 RHODE-ISLAND. 
 
 Oh ! the blessings of a Home 
 
 where 
 Young and Old mix kindly ! 
 
 New- York, Boston, and Lowell: 
 Reuben, Gad, and the tribe of Manas- 
 seh returned to claim their inheritance. 
 
 CONNECTICUT. 
 
 The Pilgrim spirit hath not fled. 
 
 Old Portsmouth ' 
 
 Where'er we roam, our hearts still 
 fondly cling to thee. 
 
 NEW-YORK. 
 
 Fond memory 
 
 brings the light of other days 
 around me. 
 
 Peace, 
 
 Love and Knowledge : 
 The civilizing three. 
 
 NEW-JERSEY. 
 
 The Heroes of the Revolution : 
 
 We 
 Venerate their Memory. 
 
 Absence strengthen* friendship. 
 
 where the last recollections were 
 
 kindly. 
 
 PENNSYLVANIA. 
 
 New- York, Boston, and other cities : 
 
 their loss 
 to-day is our gain. 
 
 Hurrati for old New-Hampshire, 
 
 her Granite Hills at home, and her 
 
 Granite Sons from afar.
 
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 DELAWARE. 
 
 Old Paved Street : 
 Its youth renewed. 
 
 " Old Strawberry Bank" 
 
 taking account of stock. 
 
 July 4, 1853. 
 
 MARYLAND. 
 
 The Union 
 
 'T is a tower of strength, that puny 
 arms may threat. 
 
 The Daughters at home 
 
 welcome 
 the Sons from abroad. 
 
 VIRGINIA. 
 
 Market Street Boys : 
 
 the men 
 in every market. 
 
 A New-Hampshire Boy 
 
 guides 
 the " Ship of State." 
 
 NORTH- CAROLINA. 
 
 Portsmouth mechanics, like 
 
 Portsmouth ships, 
 
 \vork A. 1. 
 
 The Portsmouth Boys abroad : 
 
 Absent, 
 but not forgotten. 
 
 SOUTH-CAROLINA. 
 
 Daniel Webster's Office 
 
 No. 10 Market st. 
 In this room the intellect was nur 
 tured which has expanded 
 over the world. 
 
 Lafayette, Louis Phillippe, Pierce, 
 Polk, Monroe, Adams, Washington 
 
 have passed this street ; 
 
 None have met a more cordial welcome 
 
 than the Sons of old Portsmouth. 
 
 GEORGIA. 
 
 The blunt Yeoman, 
 
 Btout and true, will speak unto 
 
 princes unabashed. 
 
 The Sons of Portsmouth : 
 
 Pioneers in the field of American 
 
 Enterprise. 
 
 There was also another separate arch at the north termina 
 tion of the arcade, which bore a long banner with this 
 inscription : 
 
 THE DAY OF JUBILEE HAS COME ! SONS OF PORTSMOUTH, WELCOME 
 
 HOME: 
 
 [The Market Street Committee on Construction were Messrs. G. L. Tread- 
 well, H. A. Bigelow, Luther Dame, Philipp Wenzell, and Charles W. Kimball. 
 The latter gentleman waa the chief architect. The Committee on Mottoes were 
 Messrs. Thomas Tredick, N. K. Raynes, Ira B. Fonda, J. A. Grace, and Albert 
 Laighton.j 
 
 Haven Block, Nos. 48 and 52, was elegantly decorated with evergreen 
 and six arches in front, by Messrs. Mathes & Varrell and Tilton & Blais- 
 dell. Numerous mottoes were displayed, the most conspicuous of which 
 were the following : 
 
 Hail, thou auspicious, glorious morn, 
 Wluch gave the British chaps their corn ! 
 JULY 4, 1776. 
 
 And now we hail the glorious day 
 
 Which first gave liberty its sway. 
 
 JULY 4, 1853.
 
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 DEER STREET. 
 
 Peter Jcnness and Mrs. Pray exhibited handsome decorations at their 
 respective residences. 
 
 VATJGHAN STREET. 
 
 At the junction of this street with Deer street a noble arch spanned the 
 road. It was finely decorated, and was designed by T. P. Moses. 
 On the south sid'e, 
 
 " No place like home : rejoice with us." 
 On the reverse side, " We bid you welcome." 
 
 Robert Gray, at No. 20, had his gateway handsomely trimmed. 
 
 PLEASANT STREET. 
 
 There were handsome arches in Pleasant street, opposite the Mercan 
 tile Library Association Rooms three arches in one. 
 
 At the junction of Pleasant and State streets, was a splendid double 
 arch, springing from the four corners of the two streets, the whole trimmed 
 with evergreens, flowers and small flags, while the stars and stripes waved 
 proudly from the top, and on the one side the cross of St. George, and on 
 the other the Hungarian tri-color. This pleasing affair was erected by 
 H. F. Wendell, E. A. Moulton, and J. H. Thacher. 
 
 Mr. John K. Pickering, No. 36, had his house most beautifully dressed 
 with American flags in folds and festoons. On a fine shield, bordered 
 with oak leaves, was a pair of hands clasped, encircling which were the 
 words : 
 
 " Boston, New-York, Portsmouth Wherever we may roam, there is no 
 place like home." 
 
 Jacob Wendell, No. 41, displayed a miniature ship, made by an absent 
 " son," under which the words : 
 
 " Welcome the present and remember the absent." 
 
 At the corner of Gates street a handsome decoration by sons of A. F. 
 Nowell. 
 
 Mr. James F. Shores, No. 46, exhibited the motto : 
 
 " A proud day for the ' Old Folks at Home' " 
 
 Abraham Wendell, at No. 47, displayed a bronzed eagle, holding in his 
 talons an American flag. 
 
 The mansion of I. Rollins, Esq. No. 49, presented a handsome display 
 of flowers in the open window. 
 
 South Mill Bridge was adorned by three beautiful arches, the centre 
 bearing on one side the motto : 
 
 " The Spirit of '7G lingers yet. 1 ' 
 On the reverse : " Union and Liberty.' 9 
 
 The southern arch bore the inscription : 
 
 " The King and Field are ours ; 
 
 South End claims her share of flowers ." 
 And the northern : 
 
 " South End rejoices o'er her sons, 
 
 And proudly bids them welcome home." 
 
 WATER PTRKET. 
 
 Mrs. Shaw, at No. 55, had her gateway elegantly decorated. 
 Liberty Bridge displayed four flags and evergreen decorations.
 
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 STATE STREET. 
 
 S. G. Folsom, No. 28, displayed the star-spangled banner in front of 
 bis building. 
 
 J. Wesley Moses, Mrs. Ellen Hurd, and Frederick Dodge, had their 
 residences decorated in good taste. 
 
 The house of widow Samuel Pierce, No. 34, decorated by Mrs. White 
 and the Misses White, presented a fine appearance. To these ladies the 
 decorations in that neighborhood owe much of their beauty. 
 
 James F. Shores, Jr. presented the motto, 
 
 " A Hundred Thousand Welcomes ! I could weep, 
 And I could laugh ; I'm light and heavy. Welcome /" 
 
 At the corner of Middle street, Samuel R. Cleaves, at "Glen Cottage," 
 decorated his house and grounds in fine taste. Along the sidewalk, and 
 attached to the shade trees which line it, were eight unique flags, on 
 which was inscribed the simple word, 
 
 " Welcome." 
 
 His dwelling was also beautifully hung with evergreens and flowers. 
 
 The house of Col. Samuel Gookin, father of the Boston Chief Marshal, 
 was handsomely decorated, and bore the inscription : 
 " Early friends again united." 
 
 The house of Mrs. Wm. Weeks, whose son was Treasurer of the Boston 
 delegation, bore on its front the greeting : 
 
 " All hail the eventful now. 1 ." 
 
 COURT STREET. 
 
 George Melcher, at No. 2, had his dwelling fitted up with much taste 
 with evergreens and flags, and displayed the greeting : 
 " Home again home again, 
 We joy to greet thee here." 
 
 Opposite the Court-House, F. W. Fernald had his portico decorated 
 with flags, festoons of evergreens, wreaths of flowers, &c. arranged with 
 great taste. 
 
 The mansion of E. F. Sise, Esq. on Haymarket Square, was tastefully 
 decorated with evergreen. 
 
 ELM STREET. 
 
 An arch extended across the street, trimmed, and surmounted by a 
 Wild Cat. Mr. Raynes erected the arch, which was a novel display. 
 
 DENNETT STREET. 
 
 A fine arch was raised at the residence of Solomon Seymour.
 
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 At 3 o'clock, P. M. the sons from abroad, the subscribers at 
 home, with the military companies and four bands of musi 
 cians, to the number of nearly two thousand, filled the spa 
 cious tent and occupied the tables. The tent was located in 
 the rear of the Court House. The ground was floored over, 
 and nine tables, 128 feet in length, were erected the whole 
 length, and another table, over 400 in length, was extended 
 around the whole. Suspended around the tent appeared in 
 large elegantly painted inscriptions the names of all 
 the Presidents of the United States. Spread on the inner 
 surface of the tent, above and in front of the rostum, were on 
 one side the State Seal, and on the other, that of the City r 
 handsomely executed, of corresponding size, six or eight feet 
 in diameter. In various other parts there were banners and 
 mottoes and even the numerous boquets on the tables sent 
 forth not only fragrance, but also choice sentiments, implant 
 ed there by the ladies, to whom much credit is due for the 
 good taste displayed, as well as to T. J. Coburn, Esq. for 
 superintending the general arrangement and providing for so 
 large a company. The organization was as follows : 
 
 President of the day, 
 
 HORTON D. WALKER, Mayor of Portsmouth. 
 
 Vice Presidents. 
 
 Ex-Mayor A. GREENLEAF, FREDERICK W. FERNALD, 
 
 Ex-Mayor J. LAIGHTON, THOS. J. WHITTEM, 
 
 Ex-Mayor C. S. TOPPAN, GEORGE RAYNES, 
 
 1CHABOD GOODWIN, GEO. WALLACE HAVEN, 
 
 RICHARD JENNESS, J. M. TREDICK, 
 
 WILLIAM P. JONES, ISAAC. F. NELSON, 
 
 ALBERT R. HATCH, GEO. W. TOWLE, 
 
 JAMES W. EMERY, LYMAN D. SPALDING, 
 
 AUGUSTUS JENKINS, JOHN KNOWLTON, 
 
 Col. JOSHUA W. PEIRCE, SAMUEL ROWE, 
 
 BRACKETT HUTCHINGS, EDMUND M. BROWN, 
 
 EDWARD J. LAIGHTON, ALFRED W. HAVEN, 
 
 W. H. Y. HACKETT, JOHN HARRATT.
 
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 On the platform were Mayor Walker, presiding, assisted 
 ? oy Alfred W. Haven and Albert R. Hatch, Esqs., Vice 
 Presidents; Rev. Dr. Burroughs, Chaplain ; 'Samuel Storer, 
 Esq., Toast Master; Oliver March, Esq. Chairman Lowell 
 Delegation; Hon. William A. Walker, M. C., President of 
 New York delegation ; Francis E. Parker, Esq., President of 
 Boston Delegation ; Wm. C. Harris, Esq. Preceptor ; and 
 Hon. Wm. Plumer, late M. C. of Epping. The other Vice 
 Presidents above named, presided at the several tables. T. 
 G. Senter acted as Assistant Toast Master. 
 
 On entering t&e tent the Boston Delegation cheered their 
 New York brothers, and were answered by a similar cheer 
 from the New Yorkers, who were, as their President remark 
 ed, fewer in number, but as lond in thunder. 
 
 The President calling the meeting to order, said : 
 
 Sons of Portsmouth : 
 
 Allow me to congratulate you on this glorious anniversary 
 of our National Independence. The long expected day for 
 which so many hearts were waiting to greet you, has arrived. 
 Never has an event in the history of Portsmouth been antici 
 pated with deeper interest by all our citizens than this, your 
 return to your native city. We have endeavored to make 
 some little preparation for your reception. Words cannot 
 express nor our hands execute what our hearts feel on this 
 occasion ; and I am but feebly uttering the spontaneous feel 
 ing of every heart when I say, welcome, Sons of Portsmouth ! 
 thrice welcome home ! This is an occasion of deep interest ; 
 it is a great family gathering; an occasion when man greets 
 his brother man, friend greets friend, and when all hearts are 
 happy and united. I had the honor this morning in a brief 
 address to welcome you home. I now have the pleasure to 
 welcome you to something more valuable than words, to the 
 hospitalities of our city. As we would recognize at all times 
 an overruling hand in the perpetuity of our free institutions 
 and in the benefits of his providence, let us now give atten 
 tion while the divine blessing is invoked by the chaplain of 
 the day, Rev. Dr. Burroughs. 
 
 The company then rose, and an eloquent and impressive 
 prayer was offered.
 
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 PRAYER BY REV. DR. BURROUGHS. 
 
 O, ETERNAL GOD, the Founder and Sovereign of the 
 nations of the earth, we praise thee for having permitted us 
 to assemble here on this interesting occasion. We thank 
 thee for all the blessings of this day, and implore thy con- 
 tinued guidance and favor. We praise thee that, at a favor 
 able period of civilization, learning, and religion, thou didst 
 send men of renown to found a colony on the shores of this 
 western world. We praise thee that when, through thy divine 
 goodness and favor, that colony became competent by num 
 bers, strength, experience, and intelligence to assume for 
 themselves the rights of an independent government, Thou 
 didst then deliver them from the oppressive yoke of civil 
 bondage ; didst ordain this day, as the birth-day of their 
 national existence and freedom j and hast made them a great 
 and happy nation. We praise thee that, more than two 
 centuries since, thou didst send bold, able and worthy adven 
 turers from a remote and enlightened country to this place, 
 to plant their families here and along the shores of our river, 
 We praise thee for all the goodly heritage, that our ancestors 
 have transmitted to us; for the good things, that they have 
 done ; and for the illustrious men and signal mercies, which 
 have most eminently honored this town. We praise thee 
 for the kind and generous feelings, which have actuated and 
 animated the hearts of very many of the native sons of this 
 city, residents of other places, to unite in one common pur 
 pose, with one common and ardent sympathy, to revisit 
 together, and on this day, with united affection, gratitude, 
 and mutual love, their native home. We praise thee, that 
 they are now assembled among us to refresh their memories- 
 and regale their hearts with the scenes of their childhood ; 
 with the schools, where they acquired the elements of knowl- 
 ledge ; with the fields, where they gathered the love of nature ; 
 with the abodes, precious for parental endearments; and with 
 the temples, where they first lisped their public devotions and 
 learned the lessons of divine truth. May their hearts be 
 deeply touched with emotions of increased gratitude and 
 affection for all the happy scenes and events connected with 
 their birthplace. We beseech thee to accompany them with 
 thy divine favor on their return to their adopted homes ; and 
 inspire them with firm resolution and holy power to live more 
 agreeably to thy divine laws ; so that their lives may reflect
 
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 brighter honor on this city, and fill us with joy that they were 
 born here. Bless thy servant, the President of the United 
 States ; those who administer the general government, and 
 the members of its legislature. Bless the Governor of this 
 State and all in authority. Send thy blessings on this city 
 and on our whole country. Prosper our literary and relig 
 ious institutions. Ever continue to us our government, 
 and preserve our nation in union and peace. Above all, 
 may we have that liberty, wherewith Christ has made us free. 
 May this home of our earthly pilgrimage serve to prepare us 
 all the more perfectly for an eternal home with our Saviour 
 and our God. Pardon our sins through our Saviour's blood ; 
 sanctify to our use these provisions of thy bounty, and us to 
 thy service, for our Redeemer's sake, to whom, with thee and 
 the Holy Spirit, be ascribed everlasting praise and glory. 
 Amen. 
 
 After the close of the repast, the President of ihe day called 
 upon Alfred W. Haven, Esq. as the gentleman selected in 
 behalf of the citizens of Portsmouth to address the visitors 
 from abroad, who proceeded as follows : 
 
 ADDRESS OF ALFRED W. HAVEN, ESQ. 
 
 Sons of Portsmouth, ivho here respond by your presence to 
 
 the invitation of our city. 
 
 It is a pleasant duty assigned to me by our civil authori 
 ties, that of expressing the sentiments of our citizens in wel 
 coming their brothers on this happy occasion. 
 
 Not as stranger guests would we welcome you with cour 
 tesy merely ; not as a formal delegation from other cities 
 would we receive you with ostentatious hospitality, but with 
 out-stretched hands and open hearts do we hail your return 
 to your birth place, to the home of your youth. The feelings 
 which bring you here to-day lie a"t the very foundations of 
 our nature. It is said that the youth of Switzerland who 
 were wont to leave their country to serve under foreign stan 
 dards, were so deeply moved at hearing in a distant land the 
 music peculiar to their native mountains, that, touched by an 
 uncontrollable impulse, they would desert their ranks and re 
 turn to their well loved fatherland. 
 
 An instrument, whose sound reaches farther and stirs the 
 breast more thrillingly than any melody of music, that mights-
 
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 est of instruments, the press, touched by the hand of one of 
 our distant brothers, and uttering but the thought "let us for 
 one day return to the place of our birth, and visit the friends 
 of our youth," found a natural response in your breasts, and 
 to-day makes our hearts glad with your presence. 
 
 You have gone forth from this ancient town of the old 
 Granite State, to swell the great industrial army of the na 
 tion ; in its ranks few of you remain as privates ; promotion, 
 which in that army always follows merit, has made you lead 
 ing men in the community. 
 
 It is reputed to have been said by one of our distinguished 
 statesmen who removed to a neighboring State, that "New 
 Hampshire is a good place to emigrate from," and the day 
 has been when we have been reproached for the expression. 
 It is true, and in the very sense in which he said it. He who 
 emigrates from New Hampshire carries the endorsement of 
 a good education and good principles, a character for indus 
 try and enterprise which has not yet been forfeited by her 
 sons. It is a good family to come from. 
 
 I speak with pride of our native State. How is a State 
 known but by its sons ? It matters not whether their field 
 of action be abroad or at home. She gave them birth, edu 
 cation, character; the breed belongs to her. 
 
 At the bar, at the press, in the national councils, wherever 
 native energy forces its way to distinction, you will find the 
 sons of New Hampshire. She was first of all the States to 
 step forward and adopt a State constitution, that first and 
 indispensable preliminary to the adoption of the Federal 
 Constitution under which we have become a great nation.- 
 Virginia claims this proud distinction, but the record shows 
 that it belongs to New Hampshire. 
 
 On this national day we may well eulogize our Federal 
 Constitution. Without it, without the institutions which have 
 grown up under it and by reason of it, how little might we 
 have had of congratulation to-day ! Exclusive privileges, 
 passports, tolls and imposts might now have marked the in 
 tercourse between Stale and State, might have shackled our 
 enterprise and prevented that community of rights to which 
 you, who return to us from other States, are especially in 
 debted. 
 
 It would please me to say more on this and other topics 
 connected with the day, but I am under military orders as 
 to time, being commanded to come to a halt after an advance
 
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 of five minutes ; and I believe that the next detachment will 
 find themselves under similar orders. 
 
 I will therefore but add, that whether you come from the 
 great metropolis of the Empire State, the heart of the republic, 
 whose pulsations are felt to its very borders, whose lakes are 
 oceans and whose cataracts speak in thunder as becomes ils 
 greatness whether you come from that pattern city which 
 holds and well guards the cradle of liberty, which allows 
 none to excel her in institutions of philanthropy and of educa 
 tion, and which is excelled by none in the intelligence and 
 enterprise of its citizens from whatever city, village or open 
 country you come, your brothers here at home extend to you 
 a cordial welcome a welcome the more cordial as the meet 
 ing of this day shows that in all your wanderings (and in 
 what part of the globe have not some of you left your foot 
 prints?) you have ever carried with you the pleasant remem 
 brances of your birth place, and because we believe that after 
 this meeting the pole star will sooner be forgotten by the 
 mariner than the old homestead will be forgotten by you. 
 
 Francis E. Parker, Esq. President of the Boston delega 
 tion, in their behalf replied as follows : 
 
 REPLY OF FRANCIS E. PARKER, ESQ. 
 
 Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen : 
 
 In behalf of the sons of Portsmouth resident in Boston, and 
 of all your guests to-day, I thank you. The hand that you 
 offer is taken, the greetings that you give are returned. Our 
 words can tell you nothing more. What the hearts of these 
 six hundred would answer, neither their words nor mine can 
 ever tell you ; but I should be ashamed if there were a drop 
 of blood in my body that failed to answer such a welcome as 
 yours. It has made us feel that we are at home again a 
 home that we honor, a home that we bless a home that we 
 have never forgotten, and which we now know has never 
 forgotten us. 
 
 We went out from you, sir, one by one, we come back an 
 army with banners. We went out with uncertain hearts, we 
 come back bringing our sheaves with us but we went out 
 children, and as children we return. It may be hard for you, 
 sir, to find a trace in the men before you of the boys that left 
 you years ago; but pardon us for not remembering the 
 changes that you see plainly. We stand on our native soil
 
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 again ; we breathe our nati\ r e air again ; old faces met us at 
 fhedoor; old voices are sounding in our ears; the child's 
 heart moves within the man's ; and with the affection that we 
 left you, we meet you to-day. 
 
 Tt is with honest pride, sir, that we stand here. We are. 
 proud of our old town, of your new city. We have been 
 where men talk of Virginia, of the Empire State, of Plymouth 
 and Massachusetts Bay. These are proud words; but the 
 name of the Granite State has a spell stronger for us than 
 that of the Old Colony or the Old Dominion. And why 
 should it not, sir? For the last thirty years what State has 
 paid to its country such precious tribute? If they tell you 
 that you have sent, away your sons, tell them that you have 
 scr.t them their rulers. And if they speak of your frost and 
 your rocks, what spot that the sun shines on, is fairer than 
 this Strawberry Bank, and the twenty miles square of which 
 it is the capital. Separated from the inland State by the 
 mountains, from Maine by that fierce river, with the ocean 
 on the east and the Merrimac on the south, this little district 
 lies like a green island; out of the tide of business and fash 
 ion, and with none to praise it but those, who know and love 
 it as we do; and to us, sir, though we have seen many other 
 lands, and the things of this world faded into the common 
 day, it still seems as fair as when we last saw it in the light 
 of our morning sun. 
 
 But has Boston no cause to remember Portsmouth, and 
 the other cities which were once its rivals, and which now 
 lie in its shadow? Why, sir, of the children bojn in Boston 
 in 1850, those whose parents were natives of Massachusetts 
 were not one-fourth ; and those whose parents were natives 
 of Boston, were less than an eighth. And when the Sons of 
 New Hampshire marched through her streets in 1849, it was 
 in thousands. And to-day, when Portsmouth calls home her 
 sons, with their wives and children, you have fourteen hun 
 dred whom Boston counts as its bone and blood. Has the 
 country no reason to remember a town which has had two 
 hundred and thirty years of good order, which has never 
 known a murder, which was foremost in our revolution, 
 which built the first man-of-war in our navy, and which 
 manned the ship that fought the first naval battle of America, 
 a town which gave its country Woodbury, Mason and 
 Webster ? And will a town have no claim on future grati- 
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 tude which sets the first example to-day, by its municipal 
 authorities, of a great home festival to its absent sons? 
 
 And well, sir, have you chosen by our meeting at this 
 board, to celebrate the union and birth day of these States. 
 It shows us the secret of that union. Close as is our com 
 panionship here, we are citizens of States which the law calls 
 foreign ; and to-morrow's sun will see a dispersion quicker 
 and wider than that on the plains of Shinah. On our next 
 national festival the hand that grasped mine to-day, will be 
 holding the plough in Iowa, or will be deep in the golden 
 sands of California. The paradox is true: we are united 
 because we are scattered, and our instinct of change is the 
 source of that fraternity which beats with one pulsation 
 through the great heart of the nation to-day. More than by 
 the timid cry of alarmists, or the vulgar calculation of politi 
 cians will that union be cemented by such meetings as this : 
 for here we cannot forget that, humble as is our native town, 
 there is scarce a State that the children of Portsmouth have 
 not made their homes, and that does not hold their graves. 
 
 You have told us, sir, that. Portsmouth is a good place to 
 go from ; you have shown us that it is a good place to come 
 back to. But as we come to your generous board, we re 
 member the vacant places of those who went out with us arid 
 who are gone beyond welcome or return ; nor can we forget, 
 sir, that of the hands that last pressed ours, and the hearts 
 that would have beat quickest at our return, many are under 
 that sod which we left with the waving grass upon it, and 
 return to find fallowed and consecrated ground. For such 
 memories, which it were as idle to banish from our lips as it 
 is impossible to banish them from our hearts, we thank the 
 town of our early friends. For the kindness which we enjoy 
 to-day, and which we shall remember to the last day of our 
 lives, townsmen, schoolmates, companions, friends, again we 
 thank yon. 
 
 The first regular toast was then announced. 
 
 1. Tlif. President of the United States A son of the Granite State and a former resident of 
 Portsmouth. 
 
 [Music PresiiienCs March.'] 
 
 Albert R. Hatch, Esq., being called upcn, responded to 
 this toast as follows : 
 Mr. Mayor, 
 
 I wish that onr distinguished fellow citizen were here to 
 reply with 1m own eloquent lips to the greeting you give
 
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 him to-day. A native of New-Hampshire, he has always 
 regarded her commercial capital with the warmest friendship. 
 Here he completed his education in the office of one of the 
 most distinguished jurists of the country; and with our peo 
 ple he has always maintained the most pleasant social rela 
 tions. After the recent election, which elevated him to the 
 station he adorns, he said to a friend, " I looked first at the 
 returns from my native town, then at those from Concord, 
 where I reside, then at those from Portsmouth, and the favor 
 shown me in these three places gave me more pleasure than 
 the whole result of the election." 
 
 Were he here to-day this concourse would give him pleas 
 ure, not iess accordant with his high position than with his 
 private feelings. To the quiet little town of Portsmouth, 
 where the bustle of commerce and the advent of new faces 
 are rarely sufficient to disturb the quiet avocations of its citi 
 zens ; to a place insignificant among the great and growing 
 cities of the Union, have come back men, active and influen 
 tial in the greatest and most thriving places of the land. The 
 social, commercial and literary capital of New England ; the 
 metropolis of the western world, of unrivalled growth and 
 wonderful activity, energy and wealth ; the sober city of Wil 
 liam Petin, long the equal of the great commercial capital, 
 and still second to no other; the queenly city of the Ohio, 
 with many other places, less in size, but not less in all the 
 Hernents of enterprise, intelligence and increasing wealth, are 
 here represented. And with the memory of the absent sons 
 of Portsmouth, whom we can greet to day but in imagina 
 tion, come up visions of the far west, of the sunny south and 
 of the golden shores of the Pacific. In the islands of tha! 
 western ocean, in the marts of China, on the sacred banks of 
 the Ganges, in the cities of Europe, and upon every oc-ea 
 where the enterprise of the Anglo Saxon race has penetrated, 
 are to be found active and prosperous men, who will this day 
 remember their childhood passed on the banks of the Pis- 
 eataqua and among the rough hills of New Hampshire. 
 Yet the mother of all those men who have aided to aggran 
 dize other cities, and have wrestled successfully with fortune 
 in other lands, sits, as ever beside her own beautiful river, 
 untouched by decay, if she has not felt the increase of rapid 
 prosperity. 
 
 Permit me, sir, to congratulate the city of my adoption, 
 because she is the mother of such offspring. The Romans
 
 36 
 
 called Africa, Arida nutrix leonum, the dry nurse of Korrs. 
 Portsmouth may claim to be the fruitful mother of men : of 
 men, who filially acknowledging their origin, h'ave firmly es 
 tablished themselves in every part of this broad Union. These 
 and such as these, constitute a bond which more strongly 
 I ban any other, shall bind together our States in the unity of 
 common interest, a common brotherhood and a common 
 government. With such a governmen-t, to use the eloquent 
 wofds of the inaugural address, we may " realize that upon 
 every sea and on every soil, where our enterprise may right 
 fully seek the protection of our flag, American citizenship is 
 the inviolable panoply for the security of American rights." 
 
 2. The Day tee Celebrate Its annual return has ever foSWd ihe nation to which it gave birth, 
 increasing: in power, improving in ihe art? and sciences \hich constitute a great and enlight' 
 ened people, and cherishing more dearly tlie blessings of a 1 free government. 
 
 [Music Hull Culumbia.~\ 
 
 No response being made, the 1 next regular toast was arF 
 nounced : 
 
 3. The Army and Navy of the. United States Their laurels hare been nobly won. 
 
 [Music HuW Victory.~\ 
 
 Major W. Austine, in command of Fort Constitution, 
 responded briefly as follows : 
 
 Mr. President, 
 
 For the compliment paid to the two services, to one of 
 which I have the honor to belong, on their behalf I tender 
 very s-iwcefe thanks. In time of peace we are but a nucleus ;, 
 hat around which in times of peril, our fellow citizens rally 
 in countless numbers, thus constituting a army and a navy 
 capable of sustaining the honor of our flag under all and any 
 circumstances. History and the personal observation of 
 many of our number, show that among the foremost thus to 
 rally, we always find many of the gallant sons of the Granite 
 State. [Applause.] What a happy gathering is this, on the 
 glorious anniversary of our national Independence. You 
 have come from far and near to revive old associations, and to 
 offer anew your devotions to the homes of your fathers. 
 Forever honored be such holy feelings, and may this day be 
 ever fresh in your memories. And while you thus so happily 
 welcome the Sons of Portsmouth, I know you will not for 
 get the fairer and better part of creation. I therefore give 
 you 
 
 The Daughters of Portsmouth, native am3aiJaptd'H&)- health ami huppiiies attend them, 
 wtieiiie* at liome or abroad.
 
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 ft. Our visitors, the Sons of Portsmouth. 
 
 [Music Auld Lang Syne."] 
 
 James T. Fields was loudly called for in answer, and after 
 receiving the cheers of his brethren of Boston, was saluted 
 with "three cheers to the schools of Portsmouth, and the 
 teacher of James T. Fields," from the New York delegation. 
 With some emotion he proceeded to say : 
 
 What shall I say to you ? How can I find words to thank 
 you for this kind, kind welcome ? I was afraid, when I saw 
 this morning the gathering crowds nestling about our com 
 mon mother, this dear and beautiful old town, I was afraid 
 she would be placed in the game awkward situation with that 
 elderly darne spoken of in the story book, who dwelt in the 
 tenament of leather, and had so many children she did not 
 know what to do. But my fears were groundless, for we 
 discovered at once that the shoe did not pinch anywhere. 
 We found a welcome so warm and earnest that we felt as 
 sured there was room enough and cheer enough for all ; that 
 this is indeed the wanderer's ample harbor and the pilgrim's 
 welcome home. 
 
 It is reported of an expedition to the Holy Land, that when 
 the army came within sight of Jerusalem, beholding the 
 glories of that ancient city, filled with the memories of its 
 buried past, they were so transported with joy that the earth 
 rang with their shouts of rapture. Something akin to that 
 feeling, then and there expressed, seems to animate and burn 
 within us to-day. Self possession and calm collected thought 
 are entirely out of the question. Belted round with troops 
 of friends, every face beaming a welcome, every eye kindled 
 with affectionate interest, every voice taking the tone of recog 
 nition, no wonder that a man loses almost his power of ut 
 terance in that choking sensation which somehow quite 
 overmasters him and will not be subdued. Thus vanquished, 
 thus deprived of the power adequately to acknowledge what 
 we all feel, here and now, the unbidden tear, which speaks 
 the universal language of the human heart, seems to me the 
 the most natural and fitting expression of what is throbbing 
 at the great seat of life. If we had come among you un 
 known and unknowing, strangers from a far-off country, 
 claiming your hospitality simply on the ground of humanity, 
 we might be more ardent in our words and bolder in our
 
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 thanks. But you take us by storm, you flock around us like 
 a band of brothers, and make us feel like children of the same 
 kind mother who has called us back under the old maternal 
 roof, to sit once more around the family table, and listen again 
 to those words of love and counsel that fell so like music 
 upon the listening ear of childhood. But if 1 may trespass 
 longer on your kindness, I must try to tell you my thoughts 
 about the matter in a few simple, hasty, but honest rhymes. 
 Mr. Fields then read the following poem: 
 
 HARK ! 't is the ringing bugle's swell, 
 
 The crashing cannon's flame, 
 The echoing shout, the pealing bell, 
 
 Our festal mom proclaim ! 
 Whose blood can creep thro' sluggish veins 1 
 
 What pulse will lag to day ? 
 I<pok where among the hiils and plains 
 
 Our native banners play ! 
 
 Standstill, thou ever restless tide, 
 
 Thou stream with memories rite, 
 And let us muse once more beside 
 
 The fountain-springs o( life. 
 Ye days o[ boyhood's goldeu prime, 
 
 Ye hours that flew so fast, 
 Oh, staycome baelc,thon vanished Time : 
 
 Return, thou buried Past ! 
 Thou stern and silent mouldering Past, 
 
 Unveil thy marble tomb, 
 And lei the lifted blazing torch 
 
 Thy pallid form illume ! 
 In vain ; 't is dumb and will not speak 
 
 Till memory's magic wand 
 Calls back the life blood to the cheek, 
 
 And bids those lips respond. 
 
 I see the dark-hung drapery rise, 
 
 The dusty folds unclose, 
 And view, beyond, our childhood's skies 
 
 In calm and sweet repose. 
 One moment, and the curtains fall, 
 
 The present hides the scene, 
 While other voices round us call, 
 
 And fades whal once has been. 
 
 i 
 
 Go, seek the rosy western light, 
 
 That yester eve was there ; 
 Bring back to manhood's longing sight 
 
 Forms that were once so fair ! 
 
 Alas! those shining hues are fled, 
 
 Gone like that closing day ; 
 And we must seek among the dead 
 
 Beneath yon churchyard clay ! 
 This wandering breeze that fans the stones 
 
 Where oft we've gone to weep, 
 Will almost baar these idle tones 
 
 To where our loved ones sleep. 
 But here, unseen, we know they inaet, 
 
 Who left this spot in t,cars ; 
 Yes, viewless saints ! your forms we gree'. 
 
 Who nursed our infant years ! 
 
 Ah, changing wfKld ! ah, fleeting joys ! 
 
 Hopes that like suns arose 
 On us, a troop of happy boys, 
 
 Have melted like the snows 1 
 The very games that once were fun. 
 
 Are grim and tedious now ; 
 'T is toil that rules each weary son., 
 
 'T is care that stamps the brow. 
 We use to "run the gauntlet" then^ 
 
 And think the sport divine ; 
 Ah me ! the gauntlets now we run. 
 
 Are very far from fine ! 
 To grub and dig -for ampler time 
 
 How hard we used to beg ; 
 But now, we groan and shudder when 
 
 We kneel to "gnaw the peg ! :) 
 
 Too long our weary feet have trod 
 
 The thorny paths of care, 
 But now above- our native sod 
 
 We feel life's purer air ! 
 Too long the wanderer turned 'his eyes 
 
 In quest of worldly gain ; 
 To-day he seeks fcxr brighter skies, 
 
 And walks his native plain :
 
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 Oil, take us bask with all our years, God hlesa the spot we love so well 
 
 Ye treasured haunts of youth ! The earth has none more ftiir ; 
 
 Forgive a few fond, foolish tears, 'T is honest pride, our bosoms swell 
 
 The heart's warm stamp of Truth ! To beathe their native air ! 
 
 We come in manhood's riper hours Come, lads, a cheer to speak our joy, 
 
 To lay our garlands down, While here our flag unfurls 
 
 And braid a wreath of fresher flowers A Health for Portsmouth Man and Boy, 
 
 For thee our native town ! And don't forget the Girls. 
 
 The next regular toast followed : 
 
 5. Tfa City of Boston Adorned in hur literature, science, art and commerce, by many 
 who have gone from us. 
 
 [Music Boston Grand March.'] 
 
 Rev. Thomas Starr King was called upon, and responded: 
 
 Mr. Mayor, 
 
 1 should regret very much that some one older and more 
 competent than myself has not been called upon to respond 
 to the sentiment just read, were it not that justice has already 
 been done to the large debt of Boston to Portsmouth, by the 
 gentleman who so warmly welcomed us here, at your invi 
 tation, and also by our eloquent frier d, the president of the 
 Boston delegation. I should find it difficult, for another rea 
 son, to keep strictly within the limits which your toast defines. 
 None of us care to know anything about Boston to-day, or to 
 hear of it. It lias floated far away from us. It is more dis 
 tant than the fifty-lour miles of rail-road, that divide us from it 
 and connect us with it, indicate. As we have walked the 
 old streets and seen the well remembered haunts, and homes, 
 and playgrounds, to-day, we have felt that years of experience 
 lie between us and the metropolis of New England; for here 
 we are all boy again. You know, sir, how the Chinese 
 make their maps. They put their own country in the centre, 
 and in full light, so that it occupies most of the chart, and 
 arrange Great Britain, France, Russia and America around 
 it as little island dots, insignificant in the shadow. Well, sir, 
 according to the geography or our hearts to-day, Portsmouth 
 is the radiant centre, although she fills but a small space on 
 ihe real chart, and Boston, Lowell, Philadelphia and New 
 York, whatever places we may have left to revisit our old 
 home, must stand for the lime secondary and distant in our 
 love. 
 
 But, sir, 1 do not forget that some explanation may be 
 needed why I stand here at all to speak among the sons of 
 Portsmouth. Most of you need not be told that I am not 
 strictly a native : I am sorry for it. . Among the heirs by blood
 
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 I come as an adopted child. Generally the process of adop 
 tion into a family is conducted by the parents and depends 
 on their will ; but I have adopted Portsmouth, and shall cling 
 to her as a mother till the good old town openly and by vote 
 rejects me from her children. That is not necessarily one's 
 native place where the eyes were first quickened by the light. 
 If so my allegiance is wholly due to the city of New York. 
 The spot where we first beheld the sun is the accidental 
 birth place of the body. But the true man lies within the 
 frame, and that is really one's native place which the soul 
 accepts as such, and which the heart fastens upon as the 
 childhood's home. That is one's native place beyond which 
 the eye of memory cannot reach, in whose real and social 
 landscape the first conscious years were enfolded, where 
 the youngest friendships were formed, and the earliest asso 
 ciations which constitute part of the warp of character, were 
 laid in the loom of experience. 
 
 It makes no difference, sir, where we were babies, for then 
 wherever our residence may be, our only home is our moth 
 er's arms; the great question is, where were we boys ? In 
 common with the rest of you I was a boy and began to be a 
 boy in Portsmouth. The town is sacred to me as the place 
 where I first learned the mysteries of "tag" and "corum" and 
 "mumble peg"; where the imagination was first exercised in 
 "playing horse," and those that were concerned with me in 
 the exercises have often told me that they were obliged to 
 personate the animal, and that I must always hold the reins. 
 Here it was that I longed for the Fourth of July and the fire 
 crackers ; for winter and its snowballing and the skating on 
 "half-moon pond" ; and nowhere else but here did it happen 
 to me to become acquainted with the difference between the 
 plebian "marble" and the aristocratic "alley," In looking back 
 over the landscape of memory, no spot is more interesting than 
 "Marden's pasture," where a company of urchins often repair 
 ed on Wednesday or Saturday afternoons, with white shirts 
 over our jackets and armed with wooden swords and the 
 heads of flour barrels for shields, to imitate the battles of the 
 Iliad. Doubtless there are several now listening here, who 
 have clear recollections of fighting in the character of Diome- 
 des, or Ajax, against me as Ulysses, or Agamemnon ; for at 
 first we generally respected the historic proprieties, but as the 
 battle thickened, Greek met Greek and each took to fighting 
 on his own hook.
 
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 O, that glorious Portsmouth of our boyhood ! To-day as 
 we have traversed the streets and been gladdened by your 
 cordial and beautiful welcome, how have the old scenes and 
 joys and sacred places, risen fresh in my mind ! I know that 
 crowds of you will delight in the mention of Dunyon's candy 
 store. What the nectar of the gods may be I cannot guess, 
 but sir I do not believe it can taste so good as those sticks of 
 cinnamon and clove candy, with large heads, tasted to our 
 childish palates, when we carried our pennies to that sanctum 
 of sweets. I can distinctly remember how the glory of man 
 hood once seemed to me to lie in having plenty of pocket 
 money to expend, without fear of anybody, in Dunyon's 
 store. And next, Mrs. Massey's shop ! With what wonder 
 and surprise we used to enter it ! Why, sir, if Aladdin's lamp 
 were put in my hand, and I could raise by its magic a man 
 sion splendid as those we read of in the Arabian Nights, it 
 would not seem such a palace of enchantment as always 
 opened upon my eyes when a a child I entered that dazzling 
 collection of whistles and trumpets, tin swords, dolls, rocking 
 horses and toys. As our procession passed over the South 
 Mill bridge to-day, how quickly my thoughts returned to the 
 early fishing experiences which make that spot so dear in 
 memory. It has happened to me once off Cape Ann, to pull 
 up a cod that would almost match my own weight. It seem 
 ed for sometime a question which was caught, the fish or the 
 fisher, as I tugged at the line with bleeding fingers ; but, sir, 
 I believe that if I should catch the sea serpent, I should not 
 feel so proud of it, as I used to when a good large "cobbletir" 
 came out of the water, wriggling on the little pin hook, as we 
 boys fished off the mill bridge ; and no fish can ever again 
 seem so large and mysterious as the pollock that would scull 
 around our lines and smell our bait, and perversely refuse to 
 bite in the deep clear water near the Spring Market. That 
 old South End is sacred, too. by our first associations of awe 
 in presence of the supernatural. I do not know what spirits 
 may be raised and brought into communication with us by 
 the modern rappings ; but certainly none can be conjured that 
 will thrill a South End boy with such shivering fear as the 
 little witches that, on very dark nights, used to appear to us 
 at the windows of the old south school house, and run some 
 times along the gun house wall. 
 
 But my boyish recollections of Portsmouth include more 
 valuable influences and helps. It was here that the first im-
 
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 pressions were made upon me of the sanctity of age, and the 
 mystery of life, and the glory of religious character, and the 
 serious call to Christian consecration. We passed the build 
 ing to-day, moreover, which stands first in my gratitude and 
 love, where I learned the best lesson which can be taught to 
 any child how to study and where the whole foundation of 
 the little instruction I have gained in life was thoroughly laid. 
 The faithful teacher, to whom hundreds of the Sons of Ports 
 mouth are so deeply indebted, is with us here, and I rejoice 
 that I am permitted to-day, to bear witness to his fidelity and 
 the unspeakable value of his labors for me, and to offer him 
 my gratitude for his great service to me as a boy. There are 
 scores of us here who were pupils of Mr. Harris. Let me 
 recall to them how often he has told us that we should one 
 day thank him for his thoroughness in drilling us, for his 
 sternness of discipline, and even for the occasional whippings 
 which we now see were less frequent than we deserved. 
 Fellow-citizens, let us prove that our old teacher, whose 
 heart is faithful 1o all his pupils, past and present, while his 
 form is endeared to us by the baHlowing touches of age, 
 let us prove that he was indeed a true prophet, by publicly 
 thanking him here for all he has done for us, in three hearty 
 cheers. 
 
 [Mr. Harris rose at the request of Mr. King and the whole 
 company united in most enthusiastic cheers.] 
 
 I have trespassed, sir, unwarrantably upon your time, but 
 I wish if you will bear with me to say before closing, that 
 there is something in this scene and the feelings that have 
 inspired us to return here, intimately connected with the 
 sentiment which this day should deepen, the sentiment of 
 patriotism. Our land is richer in almost everything than in 
 deep and tender local attachments. Artd yet those are es 
 sential to the strength and fineness of any form of civilization. 
 A grove of oaks impresses the eye by the majesty and power 
 which their sinewy boughs and swaying branches reveal, but 
 the little tap roots are the indispensable sources of all that life. 
 We cannot love our country very deeply as a mass and a 
 whole. No man can consciously take Arkansas and Utah, 
 all the squatters and the Mormons, with their omnibus loads 
 of wives, into his bosom. The poetic adjuration of patriot 
 ism is "pro aris et /om", for your altars and hearths. The 
 power of the sentiment must be expended upon small dis-
 
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 tricts. It must take its roots in the towns and villages that 
 sheltered our infancy and nurtured our boyhood. There has 
 always been a strong party in our. land that would wean 
 patriotic affection from the nation to concentrate it upon the 
 individual states. "State Rights" is their motto. We should 
 all go for town rights, their claims upon our veneration,, 
 service and love. By such movements as this- in which we 
 have joined, we deepen the healthy sensibilities which 
 strengthen the land, and help to make patriotism an intelli 
 gent, practical and ennobling passion-. We do something to. 
 break the power of selfishness in the community, and to- 
 make our country a place to love instead of a mere mart for 
 gain. The great rivers of the country, we know, sir, are- 
 formed from streams that were born of brooks, which in their 
 turn are the products of rills of water that collect the drop& 
 given to the mountain sides and summits in the showers and ? 
 storms. But when those drops flow together by myriads in 
 the broad sweeping tide of the river that rolls toward the sea, 
 they cannot refer by any subtle attraction known in the 
 world of matter, to the hill-tops where they were formed, and 
 the little channels by the way side where they first murmured 
 in the traveller's ear. But the great tide of conscious life 
 in the republic is contributed from the numberless villages 
 and towns, and there the human drops may have a double life ; 
 they may pour the energy of their hands into the mighty strsam 
 of business and political power, and yet keep affection Ton the 
 earliest home, and even return to the familiar haunts- with 
 offerings of filial regard. And so, sir, we come to-day, hur 
 rying back from, the stream of Boston life that claims us, to 
 the bed of the brook where our earliest life was sheltered. 
 We come with whatever talents we have and are recognized 
 among men- all with one heart and zeal; our poet publisher,, 
 who gives us only too few of his own books with the trea>- 
 sures from abroad which his- taste selects for our libraries and! 
 our leisure hours; our admirable wit, the patient amanuensis- 
 of the quaint and oracular Mrs. Partington ; the honored pre 
 siding officer of our delegation of whom k is the largest eulo 
 gy to say that he is the worthy son of ai sainted sire ;: these, 
 and all the scores around you, distinguished in the various- 
 paths of social responsibility and honest industry, we come 
 to twine a garland of our reputations and weave it in with 
 the greater fame of Woodbury, the learning of Peabody, the 
 eloquence of Bartlett, the Christian amenity of Burroughs,, the
 
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 daring yet modest science of Coues, and the fragrant and 
 hallowed memories of such as Cheever and Foster, as a 
 crown for the head of our dear old mother as she sits serenely 
 by the sea. In conclusion, sir, I beg to offer as a sentiment : 
 
 The principle an-1 germ of pure anl noble Patriotism A filial love for our mother towns. 
 
 G. Thecity of Niw York. The great metropolis of our country in which we all have a com 
 mon interest ; we gain in the common honor what we individually lose by contributing our 
 quota of the high principled and intelligent men to add to her greatness. 
 
 [Music Manhattan Quick Step.] 
 
 Hon. William A. Walker, member of Congress from 
 New York, and chairman of the New York delegation, in 
 reference to this toast, expressed the thanks of the members 
 of the delegation to the authorities of Portsmouth for the in 
 vitation and reception, and in a few affecting remarks alluded 
 to the ancient ties which connected them with the place of 
 their birth. Friends, he said, meet to-day for the first time in 
 many years. It is an occasion of gladness mingled with sorrow. 
 We grasp the warm hands of early friends, we gaze upon 
 familiar but changed countenances ; but the cypress is min 
 gled with the laurel, and we look in vain for the many famil 
 iar and venerable forms and faces, whom in youth we de 
 lighted to honor. He then referred to the growth and prog 
 ress of the city of New York, to the development of her ma 
 terial and moral greatness, characterizing her as the great 
 representative city of the nation, belonging equally to all sec 
 tions and races of its extended territory. The most marked 
 feature of her character, he remarked, was her immense na 
 tionality and her devotion to the union of the States under 
 our national constitution. A portion of this spirit she wish 
 ed to leave behind in her interchange of communication with 
 every section of the common country. Mr. Walker then re 
 ferred to the evident progress of the city of Portsmouth, con 
 gratulating her upon her commercial capability and pros 
 pective prosperity, and concluded with a neat and appropri 
 ate poetical quotation. 
 
 7. Woman. The virtues of the son are but the reflection of the uoble qualities of the 
 mother. 
 
 [Music Home, Siceet Home,'] 
 
 Mr. Samuel H. Gookin, of Boston, was loudly called upon 
 to respond to this toast, and was received with nine enthu 
 siastic cheers.
 
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 Mr. O. remarked on rising that these tremendous cheers 
 appeared to him as premature, and he felt convinced that 
 they would regret offering them after listening to his speech. 
 He felt constrained to apologize for the members of the Bos 
 ton delegation, and take back the compliment which he had 
 paid them on another occasion, for their presumption in put 
 ting him in the breach, and compelling him to respond to 
 this sentiment. After quoting the well known lines 
 
 ' Oh woman ! in our hours of ease," &c. 
 
 he spoke of the gratification which was felt by all the guests 
 of the day, for the hospitalities which had been heaped upon 
 them, expressing many thanks to the government and citizens 
 but more to the ladies of Portsmouth, 
 
 " The dear sweeteners of life's bitter cup," 
 
 who had worked so zealously for the pleasure and comfort 
 of their visitors. Mr. Gookin also went back to the days of 
 boyhood to utter his remembrances of school and school-boy 
 sports and of the 4th of July times, when he sat up all night 
 beforehand to give proper notice of the coming day, and all 
 night afterwards to see that it departed wilh proper honors, 
 Alter complimenting Messrs. Shillaber and Harris of Boston, 
 as the leaders of the movement towards the present happy 
 union, Mr. Gookin gave 
 
 Tlie Mothers of the Sorts of Portsmouth, Their virtues are as firm as their native hills; may 
 their sons emulate their principles, and Uo what in them lies to add to the fair fame of our 
 dear old native town. 
 
 Mr. B. P. Shillaber, of Boston, was then called for. After 
 some hesitancy, having never before spoken in public, he ap 
 peared on the rostrum amid the shouts of the company. As 
 soon as he could make himself heard he said : 
 
 J\lr. Mayor, 
 
 I hardly know what to say in reply to the enthusiastic call 
 wilh which I have been greeted. But I feel " exercised" to 
 say something ; what I can hardly tell. Perhaps, as Burns 
 says, 
 
 " it may turn out a sany, 
 
 Perhaps turn out a sermon." 
 
 Most probably it will be r the former, and for want of better 
 matter, I will read you a few rhymes that carne to me, which 
 may express the feelings of
 
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 THE PORTSMOUTH BOYS AT HOME. 
 
 A phalanx strong and tree we come 
 To meet amid the scenes of home 
 Again to mingle heart and heart, 
 As in life's early morning-start, 
 When, with stout nerve and earnest soul, 
 We parted for the distant goal. 
 And we have wandered wide and far, 
 Led onward by Hope's guiding star ; 
 Through ways diversely wide we've passed, 
 "With varied fortunes on us cast ; 
 felt much of good and much of ill 
 From Fate's o'erbending skies distil ; 
 But, though afar, we've ne'er forgot 
 Each olden well-beloved spot. 
 And every hill and rock and stream 
 Has been recalled in many a dream, 
 And life's pursuits, of high or low, 
 Have paled no beam of filial glow, 
 That with renewing ray has burned 
 As oft the heart has homeward turned. 
 
 Or mightier gales than those which bore 
 
 Our shallow ships from shore to shore ! 
 
 Beyond its clear and glassy tide 
 
 Rock Pasture rests in pristine pride. 
 
 In memory only is it seen 
 
 In memory may it still be green, 
 
 As when, in days of ancient peace, 
 
 Old Mr. Mifflin reared his geese, 
 
 And S/frburne's Wharf, a spot revered, 
 
 In willowy garniture appeared, 
 
 And Cellar old and Great Rock gray 
 
 Saw rudimental men at play, 
 
 For innovation's iron hand 
 
 Has marred the features of the land, 
 
 And the Rock Pasture now we are shown 
 
 Is not the one we erst have known ! 
 
 Though other streams mrtre wide may be 
 
 Of import more and majesty, 
 
 Yet none from one can e'er bespeak 
 
 A warmer love than Walkers Cree.k. 
 
 Fancy unchecked has roamed at will ; 
 W've stood again on Breakfast Hill, 
 And felt the breezes round us Mow, 
 As on May mornings long ago, 
 When, left our bsds for phantom flowers 
 In early dawn's ungenial hours, 
 In ashing hands and glowing noses 
 Has merged our hope of vernal roses! 
 Once more we've roamed from Sevenpine Rock 
 In dreamy shoes, to Puddle Dock, 
 And bathed again beneath the waves 
 That ceaseless lave the Point of Graven, 
 Where, in eternal slumbers deep, 
 The " fathers of the hamlet sleep." 
 
 We've walked once more in memory o'er 
 That sacred precinct Christian Shore, 
 And heard the hum of Walker's Mill, 
 And Blood enrapt on Dennett's Hill, 
 Where the big fish perpetual glides 
 On steady fin through airy tides, 
 And saw that pond beneath us rest, 
 Upon whose placid stormless breast, 
 (In days full well remembered yet,) 
 Our litlle sails in pride we set, 
 Nor deemed that in the world's wide round 
 A fnirer sea co jld e'er be found, 
 
 And thou, remembered Sagamore! 
 Some fairy pencil traced thy shore, 
 With most artistic beauties rife, 
 Ere sturdy Nature gave it life ; 
 The woods that skirt thy verdant side 
 Bow over thee in love and pride, 
 And lay their shadows there to rest 
 Upon the pillow of thy breast ; 
 No sonnets of harsh discordance press 
 To mar thy blessed peacefulness ; 
 Tli3 old pines murmur whispcringly 
 As if in earnest praise of thee ; 
 And troops of brilliant loving birds 
 Sing their delight in joyous words, 
 Responsive to thine own sweet speech 
 That breaks in music on thy beach. 
 Among thy haunts again we've played, 
 Again along thy shore we've strayed, 
 And bowed like pilgrims at a shrine 
 Before thy beauties so divine ! 
 Again our foreheads warm and glowing 
 Have I'll thy crystal coolness flowing 
 And love has strengthened in the bears 
 Reflected from thy shore and stream. 
 
 And oft-remembered Frenchman's Lane 
 Comes up before the mind again,
 
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 With brooding shadows dark and dread, 
 
 From elms enlacing overhead ; 
 
 And on a broad flat stone we read 
 
 The trace of that perfidious deed, 
 
 Where on this spot, long long ago, 
 
 The Frenchman met his mortal woe. 
 
 Dread spot ! where boys scarce dared to roam 
 
 Beyond the evening's early gloom, 
 
 For fear lest they might haply meet 
 
 The Frenchman in his winding sheet. 
 
 O!i, glorious myth ! that urchins scares, 
 
 And saves to Ham his sugar pears ! 
 
 And sense and soul must all be dead 
 When we forget the Fountain Head, 
 That shrine to which our footsteps strayed, 
 For rest and solace in its shade, 
 When parched beneath the summer heat 
 We've coveted its treasures sweet, 
 And dipped our pails within the pool 
 Wli3re bubbled up the waters cool, 
 In ceaseless never-tiring flow, 
 And icy stillness from below, 
 The while the fife-bird poured his song 
 Upon the slumbering air along, 
 Till, taking captive boyhood's ear, 
 It bowed in still delight to hear ! 
 Full many a name on that old shrine 
 Was written in the clays lang syne 
 Few scarcely dreaming deeper fame 
 Than that which registered their name! 
 
 And memories, like railway trains, 
 Come freighted, full, of Portsmouth Plains 
 That greater field, in boyhood's view, 
 Than. New Orleans or Waterloo! 
 With mighty deeds of arms 'tis rife, 
 An 1 rattling drum and squeaking fife, 
 And Bj.vy's buns, and weary legs, 
 And apple juice, and hard boiled eggs ! 
 Again hear how the music rings, 
 Where Myers thumbs the catgut strings, 
 Where, answering to the sounding fiddle, 
 ; Tis "down outside and up the middle," 
 AnJ waves of flaming calico 
 In mighty surges corn and go ! 
 Again we see the grand display 
 Of many a famed '-'great training day," 
 When soldiers brave in fixings fair, 
 (And some by far t'ua worse for wear,) 
 
 Meet there in warlike trim to wail 
 And show themselves and serve the state 
 The glory and the crowning pride 
 Of boys and men who stand outside ! 
 
 Spring Market .'how affection clings 
 To thee. best of remembered things '. 
 Delightful 'twas in days of old, 
 Thy mighty commerce to behold, 
 Where, spread around thy circuit wide, 
 Was seen the fertile country's pride, 
 That Naiads ere tlie morning's glenm 
 Had ferried down the rapid stream. 
 And vivid thoughts arise of her, 
 The awful ancient Marriner, 
 Before whose stern and chilling frown 
 All predatory schemes went down ; 
 With whom the fruit-invested pence 
 Was sole atonement for offence. 
 There, trickling out from : neath the hill 
 Runs merrily that ceaseless rill, 
 That never from its fulness shrank 
 Though myriads from its bounty drank, 
 And wastes itself in icy flow 
 Upon the "flagrant" beach below. 
 How often has that iron bowl 
 Been blissful to his thirsty soul, 
 Who, bending double for the prize, 
 Has crushed his beaver o'er his eyes. 
 But compensated for his pain 
 By tasting of its sweets again. 
 Grey, honored, worn Venetian pile 
 Which modern Goths have dared despoil! 
 Though statelier fabrics rear their forms 
 Upon thy site, my spirit warms 
 As it thy glories doth restore, 
 The pride of swift Piscataqua's shore. 
 Piscataqua ! that mighty tide, 
 With all our youthful thoughts allied, 
 Vet rolls its eddying waves along, 
 Untiring, ceaseless, free and strong, 
 As when with pole and hook and string 
 We fished for pollock by the " Spring." 
 
 And redolent with sulphury smell, 
 And resonant with gun and bell, 
 And luminous with fiery light 
 The crown of Independence night 
 The town Parade, with earnest strife, 
 Has lost no note of busy life :
 
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 The Cmrt-House venerable pile- 
 In gsntle dotage seems to smile ; 
 The old Town Pump, with outstretched hand 
 Like rigid sentinel doth stand ; 
 Jefferson Hall sends back again 
 That olden patriotic strain, 
 That rose when high and low degree 
 Brought votive gifts lo Liberty, 
 And, rallying, with earnest zeal, 
 Each twelvemonth saved the commonweal ; 
 And old Paved Street, with riches dight, 
 Comes back upon the dreaming sight, 
 With every gorgeous hue displayed, 
 As when, upon the sea of trade, 
 To welcome all auspicious gales, 
 The hopeful merchant set his sales. 
 There, like the guardian of the scene, 
 The North Church stands with solemn mien, 
 And reverent feelings cluster round 
 To sanctify the precious ground. 
 Its spire arises white and high, 
 Attracting upward still the eye, 
 A petrified perpetual saint 
 A sermon preached in wood and paint ! 
 That bell tfie music of whose tone 
 What Portsmouth ear can e'er disown ? 
 Yet swings within its ancient tower, 
 And calls to praise, and calls the hour, 
 As erst in garrulous pride it swung, 
 With open mouth and prating tongue, 
 Like many a mortal we have known 
 Whose virtue is in sound alone. 
 
 An endless task it is to trace 
 Each olden, well-remembered place, 
 
 Or give our heart emotions tone 
 The heart must treasure them alone. 
 There are they eTermore portrayed, 
 The pictures that In youth were made : 
 The church, the school, the wood, the stream, 
 All, all return in memory's dream, 
 And friends and old delights we knew 
 Still live in retrospection's view. 
 
 And olden feeling is restored 
 The pleasure beaming round the board 
 Reveals, in colors strong and clear, 
 The SPIRIT OF THE PAST is here ! 
 No figment of the brain alone, 
 But flesh and blood and nerve and bone. 
 The hands we clasp are real things ; 
 That smile no ghostly radiance flings ; 
 Those eyes are lit by friendship's beam, 
 That fades not out n? fades a dream ; 
 These hearts with living pulses beat ; 
 These tongues with living tones are sweet ; 
 Those waves of blue that yonder flow 
 Have naught etherial in their glow ; 
 The bright forms glancing by our side 
 Are objects of terrestrial pride, 
 Although, adoringly, we're given 
 To deem them less of earth than heaven. 
 
 Then give to love the sovereign power ; 
 Let its blest influence rule the hour ; 
 And, waked anew, may it impart 
 A warmer sunshine to the heart, 
 That shall, as once again we roam, 
 Relume the path that leads to HOME ! 
 
 8. The Heroesafthe Revolution, Jfatives nfJVew Hampshire. The names of Stark, Sullivan, 
 Scammell and their compatriots will never fade from our memories ; nor shall we forget 
 how nobly our heroes in the late war with Great Britain, and in the war with Mexico, 
 maintained the rights and the glory which their fathers won. 
 
 [Music Rest, Warrior, Rest.] 
 
 Alfred Oilman, Esq., late Postmaster of Lowell, being 
 called upon, responded to this toast as follows : 
 
 Gentlemen, 
 
 I thank you for this call, and am happy to be the medium 
 through which the adopted sons of Lowell respond. We 
 cherish those feelings of affection and attachment due to the 
 home of our childhood, and feel that this occasion has re-
 
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 newed and invigorated the emotions of youth. We live it 
 over again in viewing your spires and school houses, old and 
 hallowed places, in recalling familiar faces, and renewing our 
 acquaintance with former friends. You must not think that 
 because absent we forget the home of our childhood. We 
 have continually a desire to hear and know of her welfare, 
 and carefully watch every movement that affects her interest 
 or honor. Again we feel that on our part we have obliga 
 tions to fulfil so to govern ourselves that our actions may 
 reflect credit on the place of our birth, and keep honor bright. 
 I trust you will not charge me with egotism if I mention that 
 out of the fifteen or eighteen natives of Portsmouth resident 
 in Lowell, one-third at least have occupied places of impor 
 tant trust and honor, mostly in the gift of the people of Low 
 ell. I can point to a county commissioner, a representative 
 to the Legislature of Massachusetts, a President of her Com 
 mon Council, a member of her board of school committee, 
 and to other officers of no less importance. But, Mr. Presi 
 dent, to cut my remarks short, I see around me many young 
 men from abroad, who, we may suppose, are aspiring to 
 another state than that of single blessedness, and I will pro- 
 
 post 
 
 Oitr Bachelor Friends from Abroad They will find the old Strawberry Bank a safe place for 
 <an investment of affection. When she makes a dividend, they will Jiave as their share, 
 "Heaven's last best gift to man." 
 
 The next regular toast followed 
 
 9. "flit iticmory of John LingHon, and the Patriots of the Revolutionary War Who made the 
 Jirst seizure of the enemy's military stores: namely, at Fort William and Mary at the 
 TOOuth of the Piscataqua. 
 
 [Music Liberty for me.'] 
 
 Mr. C. L. Woodbury, son of the late Judge Woodbury, 
 replied as follows : 
 
 Gentlemen The toast to which you have just drank affords 
 a theme that no son of the Old Granite State can contem 
 plate without emotion. The affection that all true-hearted 
 races feel for their native land, adorns the history of the world, 
 and gives inspiration to the poets and orators. The Jews 
 mourned by the waters of Babylon ; and the bold Swiss 
 grows heart-sick at the sound of the ranch des vao/ws. The 
 poor exile whom oppression has driven from his native land 
 to our hospitable shores, dreams fondly of home, but he asso 
 ciates in that dream the hope that the proud neck of the op 
 pressor shall be bowed, and the people go free. How doubly 
 has a merciful God blessed us, that our love of home, our
 
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 pride in our native land, has no association to chili the heart 
 and make the lofty thought grow sick. Free, bold, beautiful 
 and proud New-Hampshire, the characteristics of her peopfe- 
 like her land steadfast as her lofty mountains of enduring 
 granite, independant and venturous as the free, endless and 
 eternal ocean, whose waves lash her rock-bound shores. 
 The history of our State is an escutcheon without a blot a 
 sovereign' among sovereigns. No act of hers, from the hour 
 when the first keel grated on the shingle at Strawberry banks, 
 to the present, to which her sons cannot refer with pride ; 
 and the characteristics of her sons may well vie with the nob 
 lest races that have adorned the world. At the era of her 
 first setilementVthe commercial supremacy of the world was 
 divided by the French, the Spaniards, and the Dutch. Eng 
 land felt the stimulus of acquisition and conquest ; and she 
 sent here yea* ancestors they came not as fugitives from 
 one religious tyranny to found' another as bigoted and intol 
 erant as'that from which they fled they came for the pur 
 pose of civilization and progress, to open that rich 1 lumber 
 trade, to hunt the forests, trade with the natives, and 1 gather 
 from the ocean her peerless* wealth of fisheries lavished along 
 the coast. The great fisheries to the eastward were then al 
 most monopolized 1 by the French, To your ancestors were 
 intrusted the objects of creating that rivalry which should give 
 to England a nursery for seamen, and those supplies- of naval 
 stores needed to contend with the bold Frenchman for com 
 mercial power and Indian* trade. And to Portsmouth be 
 longs the glory of being the cradle of the Granite State of 
 first developing the lumber trade of America of first devel 
 oping the ship building of this continent, now" surpassing 
 that of all the rest of the world. The first man-of-war ever 
 built upon the continent was constructed here ; so was the 
 first man-ot-war built during the Revolution^ to contest with 
 England, the dominion- of the seas. You* supplied the 
 masts and spars for the royal navy ; and the Indian, as he 
 roamed at the base of the White mountains, shrunk back as 
 from the hand writing on the wall, when he saw the noble 
 pines marked by the broad arrow of the Portsmouth survey 
 or. England did not send you here for agriculture. The 
 broad axe, the marling spike, the cod line, the whale spade, 
 and the sawmill were the instruments with which your an 
 cestors were to carve out the germ of the future naval and 
 commercial glory of this continent ; and she chose her set.-
 
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 tiers from among that hardy Danish race who had twice 
 conquered England, and to whom the ship and bold adven 
 ture were as instincts of nature. That inevitable destiny 
 which shapes the course of mankind to its own decrees, the 
 great cause of civilization and progress, demanded that here, 
 upon this continent should arise a free home for the oppress 
 ed of all mankind where in liberty, peace and industry, 
 man might grow in grace to the dignity due to those created 
 after in God's image, that a seed should be planted from 
 whence young America could grow to be the hope and refuge 
 of a down-trodden world, and Providence devoted this old 
 town of Portsmouth to be the cradle of great deeds, of prog 
 ress and bold adventure. 
 
 A century and a quarter had passed away r and no man 
 had yet caught the prophetic inspiration by which to read the 
 destinies of America. Here, indeed, was room for all no 
 ancient prejudices or tyrant customs, a free and practical 
 world could have been erected to realize the Christian idea 
 of peace, industry and prosperity. Unfortunately three pow 
 ers divided the Continent whose European jealousies di- 
 fused their venom here, and whose rivalries forbid peace 
 we could not have peace because we could not have union. 
 The ambitious or the restless demagogue in each country 
 sought quarrels as the means of advancement. And peace 
 could only be when this continent was united in one vast 
 and happy union of independent sovereignties. France 
 struggled to monopolize the fisheries, England did the same 
 neither was content to leave them free and open to all the 
 world; more than this, each nation beheld in the possession 
 of them a key to the naval supremacy of the world. So great 
 a prize was too tempting to pass by unregarded. The jealous 
 rivalry of France and England was to be fought out here 
 upon this continent, with the nations of the world for spec 
 tator?. New-Hampshire was the advance guard of England, 
 and led the way to those great acts that were to shape the 
 destiny of the continent. The genius of Vaughan, a Ports- 
 month boy, whose bones now sleep in the garden of one of 
 the Vice Presidents of this meeting, planned an expedition 
 to cut off the Gibraltar of France the stronghold whence 
 she controlled the fisheries and protected Canada. His un 
 tiring energy and resolution carried out the scheme. And 
 the stalwart lumbermen, fishermen and mechanics, with your 
 neighbor Pepperell and himself, under the noble banner of
 
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 the cross Nil Desperandum Christo duce burnt down the 
 proud city of Louisburg the key of France's power fell 
 before their impetuous zeal. 
 
 Thus was the honor of England redeemed by Yankee 
 hands, and the capture of Louisburg, fruit not of the Cabi 
 net of London, but of the boldness of New-England mer 
 chants, was the only trophy England could offer to set oft' 
 the loss of Madras, her failure before Pondlcherry, the great 
 victory France gained at Fontenoy and the shameful surren 
 der of the Elbe. This surely was glory for New- Hampshire, 
 for Massachusetts and for all their gallant sons who went 
 down on that expedition it infused an unwonted ardor into 
 all the cry went forth that the power of France must cease 
 upon the Continent; one expedition after another was plan 
 ned, and in fifteen years, of those fisheries which had once 
 given employment to ten thousand French seamen and five 
 hundred vessels all was gone but Miquelon Canada had 
 iallen France's nursery of seamen broken up her whole 
 power crumbled in the dust. I will not detain you to speak 
 of the glorious part the New-Hampshire rangers took in this 
 last struggle : Rogers and Stark have they not become as 
 immortal as history ? 
 
 The successes of this brilliant epoch of American history 
 were not confined to the North ; the genius and energy of 
 Vaughan had diffused its force even beyond his sanguine 
 hopes Spain lost as much as France, Florida and the left 
 bank of the Mississippi were surrendered to England, and 
 for the second time Havana, the peerlees city oT the Gulf, was 
 captured by that invincible race who spe-ak the English 
 tongue, the Mora Castle falling before assault as easily as the 
 quail before the sportsman's gun, and the flag of England, 
 borne by Yankee hands, streamed like a meteor over all the 
 seas and all the coasts north of the Carribean sea. This 
 was a new era in the history of continents. The events of 
 these fifteen years unrolled the leaves of the Sybil, and show 
 ed the destiny of this continent. One great union stretched 
 along the whole Atlantic coast Cuba, Canada and the old 
 thirteen original States of this union, as well as Jamaica, 
 Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, all were embraced within 
 its limits. To the contemplation of those who hoped for a 
 glorious future to this continent, how grand was this exten- 
 ive brotherhood. The star of young America rose above the 
 horizon for the world to admire it was the star of plenty
 
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 and of peace, it was the star of Union it told that old things 
 should pass away, and North America should be one broth 
 erhood of independent States, joined together in a federal 
 league of amity, peace and reciprocal equality. Here new 
 thoughts of progress now agitated the bold hearts. The objects 
 for which the goodness of God had reserved this continent were 
 made manifest to those who had faith in man. The holy 
 cause of liberty, the uplifting of down trodden humanity, the 
 triumph of the laboring classes over misgovernment and cor 
 ruption were objects to be achieved here. The sun of Gre 
 cian and Roman liberty had gone down in blood and storm. 
 Nowrose the new luminary whose brilliant light was to bless 
 the world. Thus the results attending the foresight and genius 
 of a Portsmouth boy made England great, glorious and pow 
 erful, and filled the heart of every American with that ambi 
 tion and daring which led to our national independance, long 
 before the grave had closed upon the actors of this great 
 drama. Foremost in the revolution, as in the French war, 
 the Portsmouth boys under Langdon, first attacked the Brit 
 ish forts ; and the powder you then captured was spent a 
 year afterwards in the gallant and glorious defence of Bun 
 ker Hill. It is within the memory of all, that New-Hamp 
 shire fought out some years of the revolution on her own 
 hook, and without connection with the Continental Congress. 
 Her lonely position was a glorious one. Molly Stark was 
 not a widow, but the blood of those who dared invade this 
 little State, watered the fields of Bennington, and of all their 
 strong columns, not one escaped death or captivity. It was 
 on this occasion that John Langdon, a brave soldier, a great 
 statesman and a rich merchant, great in his courage and de 
 votion to liberty, uttered those emphatic words in the Legis 
 lature : 'I have no money left to advance for this expedition, 
 but I have my plate, and twenty casks of Tobago rum, and 
 I offer all this to fit out this expedition of Gen. Stark's.' 
 With the proceeds of this rum were the troops of New- Hamp 
 shire equipped for that victory. Why should I extend this 
 theme? Vaughan and Langdon are but the type of the 
 race who have made old Portsmouth their home, prompt in 
 act, wise in council, devoted in deeds ; they were men of 
 destiny, always the leaders, though like all leaders, not al 
 ways reaping to themselves the fruits of their labors." 
 
 The destinies of this continent have been in times past 
 moulded and directed by your sons, and why should they
 
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 cease to be ? Is commerce to be extended, who more expe 
 rienced ;n its mysteries ? Is free trade and reciprocity to be 
 extended over this continent, have you not the iron rails con 
 necting you to Canada more closely and easily than when 
 Rogers' New Hampshire Rangers sought Quebec in battle 
 array? If you saw advantages in uniting the North under 
 one government, when Vaughan planned the stroke, will 
 you now shrink when the vast population there tender a 
 commercial union ? Who dares to say that Portsmouth 
 sleeps ? Who dreams that she is a sluggard in that great 
 race of progress and manifest destiny to which she gave the 
 impetus and led the way? It is not so. She led the way in 
 the lumber trade, she led the way in ship building, and she 
 still holds the lead ; and now when steam and iron are the 
 mighty means of progress, she is prepared to use them, and 
 my word for it, she will not idle her great advantages in sigh 
 ing for the past, but, like a noble city, avail herself of the ad 
 vantages which nature, art and industry give to her. And yet, 
 again, in the front rank waves forth to the world that resist 
 less banner of progress which she first unfurled to create 
 events in the history of this continent, whose mighty force 
 changed the destiny of empires, the fate of nations. You, 
 ye fishermen of Portsmouth, who boast of Vaughan and 
 Pepperell and Langdon, as of your unconquered race, who 
 under John Paul Jones first taught haughty England how to 
 strike her flag to the stars and stripes of Uncle Sam you 
 who fought four glorious wars for a free fishery and a free 
 ocean, you know well the route across the water that leads 
 to those fishing grounds. Your ancestors have proclaimed 
 the great principle of free fisheries to the world, .and glori 
 ously have beaten from the broad face of ocean every na 
 tion that has attempted to monopolize them from you. Are 
 you prepared at this day to surrender the rights you have 
 watered with your blood for a hundred years ? A jealous 
 and a powerful enemy, falsely and wickedly, are striving to 
 rob you of that which you gloriously won from gallant 
 France. Perverting treaties, they sieze your ships and im 
 prison your seamen ; and the time is coming when you must 
 choose whether you will submit to oppression and wrong, 
 or like your ancestors, with strong hands assert your rights. 
 New Hampshire sprung from the loins of the cod fishery, 
 and her interests are too intimately joined to that branch of 
 industry for her to prosper when it decays. I deem it for-
 
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 tunate at this crisis that a son of hers has the control of the 
 foreign relations of the country,; it is a guarantee for your 
 interests; the robbers of your fishery must choose between 
 the olive branch of reciprocity and the gleaming sword of 
 American justice. Let them look on the crumbled ruins of 
 Louisburg. 
 
 But I have said enough ; my object was briefly to remind 
 you how a centnry ago the dark veil which hides their desti 
 nies from mankind was lifted for a moment on this conti 
 nent ; it fell again am.id the storm of war to await the hour 
 when the moral regeneration of the people should be com 
 pleted by independence and firm-set republican institutions. 
 In the rapid and steady progress of that work your states 
 men and your people have lent no ordinary aid; and as the 
 manifest destiny of North America advances towards its 
 consummation, the sons of Portsmouth -will remember the 
 glorious part the old Continentals have borne ,iri .the seed 
 time of great deeds, and as continental in pdlicy as their an 
 cestors, faithfully perform their part in the work until Amer 
 ica shall be one Sparta of free institutions, and the lamp -fires 
 of tyrants shall be smothered before the progress of civiliza 
 tion and liberty. 
 
 The following letter from the venerable Capt. John Mc- 
 Clintock, now in his ninety-third year, was then read : 
 
 PORTSMOUTH, N. H. July 4, 1853. 
 To the Sons of Portsmouth, Gentlemen, 
 
 Sickness in my family deprives me of the pleasure of 
 meeting with you to enjoy the day; and we bid you a hearty 
 welcome to the city of Portsmouth, to unite with us in the 
 celebration of this glorious , day of our independence, the 
 Fourth of July. Portsmouth was the only city, and New- 
 Hampshire the only State, during the war of our revolution, 
 that the enemy did not possess a foot of land in. We 
 captured their army before they could pass our line. Few 
 of us are left who were engaged in the trials and sacrifices 
 <of the war to obtain our independence and establish our 
 government. May we, with one heart and one mind, unite 
 to support our Constitution, that was purchased at so dear a 
 rate by some of our noblest, purest, and bestiblood that the 
 :pulse of life ever contained. May this day be celebrated so 
 long as the Granite Hills shall remain. 
 
 -Respectfully, JOHN MOCLINTOCK.
 
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 At the call of A. A. Peterson, Esq. of the New- York delega 
 tion, three cheers were given for the revolutionary patriot, 
 John McClintock. 
 
 Hon. Ichabod Bartlett sent the following toast : 
 
 Sons of Portsmouth resident abroad, who are present upon this occasion, Portsmouth may 
 now say, like the mother of the Gracchii " These, these are my jewels." 
 
 A toast from the Mayor of Boston, at the city celebration 
 at Faneuil Hall, was now announced, which was received 
 with " three cheers for Faneuil Hall." Mr. Fields read it as 
 follows : 
 
 Boston and Portsmouth The electric chain of communication which now unites them, is but 
 a type of the living sympathy which bound them together in. the days that tried men?s souls. 
 
 The Mayor of Portsmouth in behalf of the Sons responded : 
 
 The City of Bostonthe nurse of Freedom when we forget her may our right hands 
 forget their cunning. 
 
 W. H. Y. Hackett, Esq. also sent back : 
 
 We are proud of thai part of Boston which belongs to Portsmouth. 
 
 The tenth regular toast was then read 
 
 10. The State of JVeie Hampshire The Sparta of America while her sons have extended 
 her fame through all lands, her women hare never seen the smoke of our enemy's camp-fires. 
 
 [Music Old Granite State.'] 
 
 11. JHaion, Woodbwry, and Webster Statesmen and Jurists whose names are known in, 
 every civilized laj id they first obtained fame and reputation in our cily. 
 [Music Dirge."] 
 
 The eleventh regular toast was responded to by Samuel 
 A. Badger, Esq. of New- York. [We have not obtained a 
 copy of his remarks.] He closed with this sentiment : 
 
 The President of the United States A Son of New-Hampshire. 
 
 12. The Union of these United States As- well as on- written Constitutions, we rely on the 
 Railroad and Telegraph to preserve it. 
 
 [Music Star Spangled Banner.'] 
 
 The twelfth regular toast was responded to by Matthew 
 Hale Smith, Esq. of Boston, in an eloquent and beautiful 
 speech, of which we have HO report. 
 
 13. Our United States however bounded, our Brothers wherever tcatteredf&t us 
 "ONE COUNTRY, ONE CONSTITUTION, ONE DESTINY," 
 [Music Yankee Doodle."] 
 
 Charles L. Frost, Esq. of New- York, was loudly called 5 
 for, and responded in an off-hand speech, during which he- 
 was repeatedly interrupted with the cheers of the multitude.
 
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 We have heard it said, and he gloried in the idea, that 
 " Portsmouth is a good place to emigrate from." In the last 
 twenty years he had been a resident in the Western and 
 Middle States ; it was therefore proper for him to respond to 
 the sentiment on which he had been called up. To his 
 distant abodes he had carried the reputation which a residence 
 in Portsmouth had given him ; and to it he owed much of 
 the confidence and respect he had received abroad. Yes, 
 Portsmouth is not only a good place to emigrate from, but 
 we find it also one of the best places in the world to return to. 
 [We regret that his speech was not reported.] 
 
 Hon. Ichabod Goodwin was then loudly called for, and 
 on rising was received with a perfect storm of applause : 
 
 He felt disposed to welcome most heartily all the wanderers 
 from Old Strawberry Bank. He was a native of Maine, 
 and he could well understand their feelings and account for 
 the enthusiasm which that day prevailed. His own native 
 home, if homely, was none the less dear to him, and he 
 could feel to exclaim in reference to the place of his nativity, 
 " When I forget thee may my right hand forget its cunning." 
 He had but one son, and he would ask for him no higher 
 blessing than to feel assured that such a reception as the 
 returned wanderers before him had received, would be 
 extended to him, should he be placed in similar circum 
 stances. In conclusion, Mr. Goodwin extended to all a 
 cordial invitation to visit again their homes on each succeed 
 ing anniversary of our nation's birth-day, and conlinue the 
 intercourse thus happily commenced. 
 
 Three cheers, that made the welkin ring, were given for 
 the honorable gentleman on retiring. 
 
 Albert R. Hatch offered the following : 
 
 The Press The Safeguard of our Institutions the voice by which the people speak. Ports 
 mouth is proud of her contributions to the fraternity, which the whole union delights to honor. 
 
 C. W. Brewster was called upon to respond to this toast, 
 and submitted the following : 
 
 Mr. President, 
 
 " The Press the Press," is the toast. Sir, you have seen 
 that powerful instrument borne about in the procession to-day 
 by garlanded oxen, a thing as tame and harmless as though 
 it were only a lion encaged. But, sir, set it in motion, seize 
 but that " lever which moves the world," and for effect upon its
 
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 inhabitants the power .of every wild beast of the. desert is set 
 at defiance. What brings us here to-day ? what power has 
 been brought to bear to gather thousands from Jialf of ,tbe 
 States of tliis wide .Union to their kindred and their home? 
 The press, in its simplest accents and its mildest tones, ,had 
 said, " Come home" and all of the world visible to us here 
 was set in motion ! And here we are, though boasting to 
 be freemen, literally swayed in every movement by the press.! 
 Would you shake off its" influence ? would yau.be free from 
 its power? The toast just given says, No! To blot the 
 sun from the firmament, or the Fourth of July from the cal 
 endar, would be scarcely less felt than the loss of the press. 
 Knowing many of you at home and abroad to be the tangi 
 ble friends of the press, please accept the sentiment : 
 
 True Patriots Those who regularly oil the lever that moves the world. 
 
 Hon. Richard Jenness was called upon, but declined 
 speaking on account of the lateness of the hour, and handed 
 to the President the following sketch of his remarks and the 
 accompanying toast : 
 
 Welcome to the Sons of Portsmouth ! It is a common 
 saying that blessings brighten as they take their flight, but 
 we have the greatest surprise and pleasure as we number 
 ours returning. We had been modestly ignorant of our 
 own worth in sending out so many of our own Children to 
 build up families and a name for themselves and us else 
 where ; and we hope now we shall not .be unreasonably 
 proud when they come back to share their honors with us. 
 We have every reason to be proud, to be sure, but lest these 
 ycung ones should presume upon the '" old folks at home," 
 we wish to assure them that the old nest is still in pretty 
 good repair, and we hope to send out in future a few fledg 
 lings who will kindly bring back an olive-branch of peace 
 and good-will to us. We trust that all our sons will always 
 everywhere recognize each other as brothers, as we shall be 
 always glad to welcome them home. 
 
 The Sons of Portsmouth tn olden time the pions emigrant'before starting lit a lamp in the 
 temple, with which he might kindle the sacred fire in his new home ; but .we rejoice that our 
 eons have not only kept the fire of intelligence they carried from us burning, but have brought 
 it back to assure us of their faithful care, And rekindle, if need be, our failing lamps. 
 
 By M. P. Kennard, a Vice President of the Boston organ 
 ization : 
 
 Old Strawberry BankIt, exhibits to-day a new era in banking policy the voluntary return 
 of its circulating issue in an improved condition, and all with good impressions.
 
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 By Henry Gocldard, of Portland; 
 
 Brethren and Sons of Portsmouth : There is something not only novel bat 
 partaking of grandeur in the thought that the natives of any town or cifcy, of 
 various generations, 'Should by invitation from their birth place, with one 
 accord, assemble there on the day of our national jubilee. 
 
 The spectacle we exhibit and witness, a return of the sons of Portsmouth, 
 of various occupations and professions, from many sections of the land, some 
 of whom have never 'before met since they left it, and others (a solemn 
 thought) will not meet again during our earthly sojourn, is one of the deepest 
 interest to every reflecting mind. 
 
 Jn view of our social relations how delightful is the thought that as sons of 
 Portsmouth we are now only enjoying the domestic and family relation extend 
 ed one degree further than its usual limits, in thus fraternally and filially, as 
 one great family, at once meeting each other and visiting our honored parent, 
 now the city of Portsmouth, than which I know of no more honorable birtk 
 place in our land. 
 
 The great man of New Hampshire and of the nation once humorously 
 remarked that " New-Hampshire is a good State to emigrate from." Shall 
 we not say that Portsmouth is not only a good place to emigrate from, but 
 a good place to abide in, and above all, as proved this day, a good mother to 
 return to, who thus welcomes her children home in so liberal and hearty a 
 manner, from their various enterprises over the land ? And, brethren, is not 
 a city deserving of honor, which through its children has done so much to 
 people and strengthen our country, while it has been at the same time increas 
 ing its resources and population at home ? 
 
 My observations and recollections of Portsmouth extend back with distinct 
 ness to 1793, since when, if it has lost something of the courtly air and stateli- 
 ness of some of its population, (for it was then fresh from the regal style and 
 pomp of the administration of the British Governor Wentworth, the traces of 
 which were then most clearly visible,) it has since as an offset doubled its pop 
 ulation and more than trebled its wealth, without diminishing its hospitality. 
 
 Portsmouth has also since the Revolution and the time of the Langdons and 
 their cotemporaries, been well known in our National Council ; she has fur 
 nished many members to the Senate as well as to the House of Representa 
 tives ; and of the former permit me to say, one to a further distinction, that of 
 doing what a more recent member of the Senate there stated that no man had 
 ever done, and it was not to be supposed any man would ever do, declined 
 a seat in that body after he had been elected to it. 
 
 1 close with an expression of the hope that the multitude of our hearty 
 greetings to-day may be succeeded by most pleasant and affectionate recollec 
 tions in the future, of this meeting in Portsmouth, of July 4th, 1853, and of 
 our cordial and magnificent reception in this city of our birth. 
 
 By William Walker of South-Newmarket : 
 
 Tiie citizens of Portsmouth proverbial for their hospitality They receive us as their guejsts 
 with open arms and warm hearts; and in the tasteful arrangements ami munificent provision 
 for, the occasion, they not only honor the day and their guests, but highly honor their city. 
 
 By B. P. Shillaber of Boston : 
 
 Tiie Daughters of Portsmouth the stare of her domestic galaxy by no means lesser lights 
 than her sons. 
 
 By Theodore S. Harris of Boston : 
 
 As the " Sons'' to-day cherish their early feelings by a visit to the spot of their nativity, go 
 may they, in the eve of lifu, return to end their days in the land of their fathers. 
 
 By W. H. Y. Hackett : 
 
 The Schools of Portsmoutt May they continue to furnish such proof of their usefulness as 
 now eurround us.
 
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 By James P. Walker of Lowell : 
 
 Mr. Mayor, 
 
 While gentlemen have been awakening many and pleasant recollections of 
 times past, there hare been floating before my mental optics visions of an 
 ancient building, long, low, and dingy, rather resembling a section of ropewalk 
 than a seminary of learning ; where, notwithstanding its unpromising exterior, 
 hundreds of Portsmouth boys received those rudiments of knowledge which 
 have been the stepping-stones to whatever they may have since attained. 
 
 From the early date of the building in question, and the fact that our fathers 
 before us were accustomed to assemble for purposes of instruction within its 
 walls, probably few buildings in our old town are so well known by so large a 
 number as the Old South School House. 
 
 The Old South School House ! the rallying-point of the south-enders ! 
 Who does not remember when juvenile sectional spirit ran high, when our town 
 was " our country" and we were " northerners" or " southerners" according to 
 an accident of birth or residence ; when " Mill Dam" combined forces with 
 " Tattle Point" to resist the incursions of " Christian Shore" and " Rock Pas 
 ture" the South School-yard was then the citadel whence issued forth the troops, 
 conquering or to be conquered. And then in more peaceful times, 'on former 
 anniversaries of this the natal day of our nation's independence, when we 
 yonkers arrayed in blue and white, and painfully decorated with oak-leaf 
 garlands and flowery wreaths, were marshalled forth in proud array to add by 
 our important presence to the festivities of the day, what a scene of bustle, of 
 marching and countermarching, did that same south school-yard present ! 
 
 The old house has in these latter days given place to a new edifice, more 
 modern, elegant, and commodious, typical of the progress of the age ; and to 
 the regret of many there remains not a relic, or sketch even, of the old house, 
 save only " those pictures by memory drawn." 
 
 Thus these landmarks one after another disappear, and by-and-by we shall 
 disappear like them ; it is fitting, therefore, and pleasant to cherish their mem 
 ory, in the hope that if we also are successful in answering the end of our crea 
 tion, our day and generation shall not be quite forgotten. 
 
 Permit me, sir, in conclusion to give you : 
 
 The memory of the Old South School House, and the very good health, continued prosperity, 
 and long life of two of its surviving masters, Phineas Nichols and Alfred M. Hoyt, Esqs. the 
 Alpha and Omega of my south-school-boy life. 
 
 By Oliver March of Lowell : 
 
 The City of Portsmouth andiu environs. Its beautiful walks, its pleasant rides, its sunshine 
 and its shade, its fresh water and its salt water, and last but not least its fair daughters not to 
 be excelled by any city in the Union. 
 
 By Wm. G. Wise, of Lowell : 
 
 Our Absent Brothers May God bless, prosper and preserve them, wherever they may be. 
 
 By B. H. PenhaUow, of Lowell : 
 
 To the memory of the hallowed dead of Portsmouth May the remembrance of their blessed 
 example ever incite us to the practice of every Christian virtue. 
 
 By Lieut. J. A. Underwood, U. S. R. M.: 
 
 Our old Teacher, WUliam C. Harris, Esq. 
 
 Wherever we rove, other teachers we see ; . 
 Others to love, but none like thee. 
 
 By S. P. Hanscom, reporter of the Boston Daily Times : 
 
 Lows KossuthWe recognize him in the light of his own language addressed to the Presi 
 dent of the United States : " A living protestation against the violence of foreign interference 
 oppressing the sovereign right of nations to regulate their own domestic concerns. A living 
 protestation against centralization oppressing the State right of self-government."
 
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 By J. B. Hay den of Boston : 
 
 The Ladies However much those of" 76" may have awakened a spirit of independence id 
 the hearte of the young- men of their day, the ladies of Portsmouth inspire any other than a 
 love of independence in our hearts. 
 
 By Garland Turell, of Boston : 
 
 New-Hampshire The Mecca of the natural world whose divinity shall forever yield inspi 
 ration lo innumerable pilgrims, that seek to worship at her mountain shrines. 
 
 By J. "Wendell, Jr. of Boston : 
 
 The Portsrnouth Boys resident in New- York and Boston Like the north and south mill-ponds 
 of their native town, the waters of which like the affections when opportunity offers gladly 
 reunite in paying homage to the place of their paternity. 
 
 By Daniel R. Sheafe : 
 
 The principle of progress has marked the exertions of the Sons of Portsmouth May the 
 principle of reform yeibe theirs in this their promised land. 
 
 By Jere. Dearborn, of Boston: 
 
 Wben Mr. Fields waa called out at the Dinner, the south end boys gave him three cheers. 
 If I had been in the tent when Shillaber was called for, I should have given the following : 
 
 What if the South end boys have their Fields, we of the north have our Mifflin's Geese to 
 roam independently over them ; and then it is the residence of the far famed Mrs. Partington < 
 and th birth place of that young rascal Ike, 
 
 Who stole the sugar from the bowl, and put it in his Carpet Bag. 
 
 By Nathaniel Cotton of Cambridgeport : 
 
 The early settlers nf Portsmouth our Ancestors. Their privations and virtues should ever 
 be remembered with filial gratitude. Peace be to their memory. 
 
 By Rev. C. W. Reding, of Beverly, Mass. 
 
 Porttmouth Our natal city, the home of our earlier days. rendered doubly dear to many 
 of us as the resting place of all that was mortal of our fathers. Most gladly have we, her 
 devoted sons, hastened back from our wanderings, and, in response to her maternal call, di 
 rected our steps to this altar. Upon it would we now lay the offering of grateful hearts ; and 
 here would we leave our fervent prayer that a benignant Providence would continue to watch 
 over her interests, and endow her with every element of ah enduring prosperity. 
 
 By Hon, William Plumer, of Epping : 
 
 PortsrrtOMh Rich in its recollections of the past, and strong in its hopes for the future, may 
 a be yet stronger and richer, in a new spirit of union, enterprise and activity, in its onward 
 course of social, industrial and moral improvement. 
 
 Mr. Charles Gushing, formerly of Portsmouth, now of 
 Dorchester, sent the following toast : 
 
 Independence and Union Now and forever our glory and defence. 
 
 By B. D. Laighlon of Stratham : 
 
 The Fourth of July, 1853 Its celebration in " Old Strawberry Bank" will furnish materials 
 for a bright page in her history ; in that upon that day the dust which had gathered upon the 
 " old family record" was swept away. 
 
 SALEM, July 4, 1853. 
 
 Hon. H. D. Walker, My Dear Sir : My fractured limb is not sufficiently 
 strong to warrant my leaving home, to participate io the pleasure which will 
 be enjoyed by thousands in my native place to-day. This I regret, but send 
 you the enclosed, to offer on the occasion of the great gathering. 
 
 Memory of John W. Foster Beloved and honored in life ; in death, sincerely mourned and 
 lamented. May the " Sons of Portsmouth" emulate his numerous virtues. 
 
 Very respectfully, JOHN BALL.
 
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 By Rev. Dr. Burroughs : 
 
 The 'Bank that lias never failed ; whose issues have had an universal circulation for more 
 than two centuries ; have always been in good odor ; and have blessed myriads. Such' of 
 these living issues as have now come back to the Bank we welcome as genuine and true, the 
 beet of stock and as good as gold I mean The Strawberry Bank. 
 
 By John Christie : 
 
 The Declaration of Independence May the Supreme Judge of the world, to whom the signers 
 of that glorious instrument appealed for the rectitude of their intentions", grant that the truths 
 therein promulgated may speedily pervade the globe. 
 
 By John Harrat : 
 
 The Sons of Portsmouth, heit present as our guests to-day They have- not returned as did 
 the prodigal son to his father's house ; therefore we, who have remained' at home, will not 
 murmur because the fatted calf has been killed, but go in right heartily for a participation in 
 the father's joyous welcoming. They have fought with success thus far the battle of life 
 among strangers; and, if but for their filial affection, they well deserve it. 
 
 By M. F. Wendell: 
 
 The Fourth of July A day illustrious in the history of human events ; it required Union to 
 obtain it, and it requires union to preserve it. May the noble deeds of our fathers receive the 
 gratitude of their sons. 
 
 By Israel Kimball : 
 
 The Daughters of Portsmouth 
 
 Though native sons forsake their homes 
 
 And dwell the country o'er, 
 Her daughters, fairest of the fair, 
 Adopt as many more. 
 
 By Albert Laighton : 
 
 July 4th. 1853 A day in the calender of life made sacred to the " Sons of Portsmouth-'' by 
 a thousand memories of home. 
 
 Yankee progress in the good old town of Portsmouth The celebration of two events in one 
 day, the glorious severity-seventh anniversary of our national independence, and the joyous 
 retiirn of her son* to the homes of their childhood a day that will be treasured up in the 
 memory of the old : and the young by its many happy associations. 
 
 By John Bennett, City Clerk : 
 
 Our CitySoou may her locality, attractions and business be such, as will prevent her sons 
 from emigrating. 
 
 By I. Bartlett Claggett : 
 
 The Sons of Portsmouth As the Romans hailed their victorious armies, returning home 
 With the spoils of conquered nations, so do we this day hail " The Sous of Portsmouth'' 
 returning home in triumph with the well-earned honors of adopted cities. 
 
 By Col. Gideon W. Walker : 
 
 The Sons of Portsmouth, and this our Nation's day. Our native land and native place. May 
 the hearts of generations to come beat in unison, as on the occasion which has this day drawn 
 us together. 
 
 By John Knowlton : 
 
 Our Sons who have returned to spend with us this glorieus Anniversary We would have 
 gladly retained them with us ; but' as we coul'd not, we greatly rejoice in their prosperity 
 abroad. 
 
 By Jeremiah Johnson : 
 
 The Sons of Portsmouth We give thern'a hearty welcome ; may the same calling that look 
 """ f rom their homes soon call them back again, viz : business and employment. 
 
 same : 
 
 It is impossible not to love the thought, and the man who uttered the thought, " that the 
 States of the Union, distinct as the billows, are one like the sea ;" and may we not add : the 
 wisdom of our forefathers, rising from the mighty deep, which beseeches us to avoid the 
 breakers which they so safely shunned. 
 
 By
 
 William M. Fernald of Bostoir forwarded us an> 
 address of twenty-four pages. Our limits forbid its insertion. 
 It closes with the following sentiment: 
 
 Honor to the. professional talent of the Sons of Portsmouth There is not a town in New-Eng 
 land that knows better how to manufacture it, where to find it, or to keep it ill safety till the 
 morning and raid-day gfdry. 
 
 Ex-Mayor A. Grecnleaf also forwarded us an excellent 
 address, too long for our limits, closing with the sentiment : 
 
 Portsmouth While represented so ably and honorably by persons in distant cities (taking 
 the delegation now present as a fair simple,) there need be no apprehensions thai the honor 
 of Old Strawberry Bank, will ever be compromised. 
 
 Our Returned Sorts. Now that they have seen that the old homestead has been kept in goo& 
 order, may they be induced to promote its future improvement. 
 
 WORCESTER, July 1, 1853. 
 To Francis E. Parker, Esq. Chairman of the Delegations from Portsmouth, July 4, 
 
 1853. 
 
 MT DEAR SIR : Were it a practicable thing, I should be with the SODS of 
 Portsmouth at their first and olden home, on our great national festive day 
 this year. But other duties forbid this luxury. So I send my greetings to the 
 multitude who may go up to this good banquet of souls, amid the recollections 
 of the past, which will be so joyftilly revived' on this occasion; My heart wilU 
 be in the midst of your festivities on that day ; and while I lire, so shall live 
 my warmest wishes for the peace and- prosperity of all Portsmouth sons and' 
 daughters of the present or of the coming generations. Allow me this word of 
 contribution : 
 
 'IVfid his wanderings o'er the earth, 
 To the home that gave him birth, 
 Will !he son of Portsmouth turn, 
 While his lingering life-fires burn. 
 That his vital power be fed, 
 Comes he to her Fountain Head. 
 O'er rough ways when courage wanes, 
 Turns he to her ancient Plains. 
 Through the haze that time has made, 
 He espies the old Parade, 
 Where the mirth-blaze Icoms so bright,- 
 As on Independence night. 
 
 Long Wharf, Pier, and Old Spring Hill, 
 With their sights his visions fill. 
 Little Harbor still retreats ; 
 Where Long Lane the morning greets ; 
 Up Newington's piney way, 
 When the "summer sunbeams play ; 
 On tire river, bank and tree, 
 Tints of home his dreamings see. 
 When at last these dreamings end, 
 This one thought his soul befriend,- 
 That, his lohgtest wanderings o'ef, 
 He may land oil Christian Shore. 
 
 3. G. ADAMS. 
 
 The following were found among the sentiments given at 
 the tables by the ladies not in audible tones, but previously 
 iiUerwoven in the boquets which decorated the paviliom 
 
 Our boast shall be of native " FIELDS"' of song, 
 
 And briliant " STASH KINGS'' swell the noble throng. 
 
 How life-like thro' the mist of years; 
 Each well remembered face appears. 
 
 It- is life's common lot, to link our hearts to things that flee 
 The light of other days.
 
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 sweet 'tis to visit the home of our birth, 
 The loveliest spot on the face of the earth. 
 
 Our heart mid all changes, wherever we roam, 
 Ne'er loses its love for the old folks at home. 
 
 Our Kindred and Friends Though absent, not forgotten. 
 
 Webster, Woodbury, Mason Their voices echo from the past more eloquently than any living 
 tone. 
 
 Haven, Foster The friends and guides of our childhood. Our children shall rise up and 
 call them blessed. Departed they still speak. 
 
 The Memories of our Childhood. 
 'Our JlguedutlTXo fountain of Lethe, but a well-spring of pleasant memories. 
 
 'Tis the charter of freedom, attend to the call> 
 United we stand, divided we fall. 
 
 Adorned with stars so richly bright, we form a constellation, 
 Where every star with modest light, shall gild Us own true station. 
 
 Like the bees, if home our spoils we bear, 
 Hived in our hearts it turns to nectar there. 
 
 Religion be our guiding star as we sail through the sea of life. 
 Jfeio-Hampshire Her pride : high-minded Men. 
 
 Home, sweet Home, there is no place like Home. 
 Washington What title shall he have? Not one. His name alone strikes every title dead, 
 
 A Welcome glad to the Portsmouth boys '. 
 
 They have come to the home of their school-day joys. 
 
 Our Sons have come from lar, our Daughters, where are they ? 
 A joyous Welcome waits them all in their olden home te^day . 
 
 " Home" ! 'tis a word of more than magtc spell, 
 Whose sacred power the wanderer best can tell. 
 
 The Day tee Celebrate Not noted on the calendar of time, but hallowed by the grateful 
 songs of freemen. 
 
 " The bonds of early friendship still around the heart entwine, 
 And memory loves to linger yet on days of Aald Lang Syne." 
 
 Our Schools The safeguards of our Liberty and Virtue. Their pupils are their highest praise. 
 
 May the starry flag waving, still glory pursue, 
 And freedom find ever a guardian in you. 
 
 The benediction was pronounced by Rev, Dr k Peabody, 
 and at about 7 1-2 o'clock the company separated, one and 
 all delighted with their afternoon entertainment* 
 
 'THE PKOMENADB CONCERT, at the Pavilion in the evening, was atl-ended 
 by several thousands. It was brilliantly illuminated by gas, and not less by 
 the brilliant eyes of that better portion who did not appear in the tent in the 
 day-time. Here was the place to recognize old acquaintances ; and many here 
 met who had been separated five, ten, twenty, thirty, and even forty years. 
 Neighbors here met from abroad who had no knowledge that they were natives 
 of the same place until the call of return went forth.
 
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 The gathering of tho Sons of Portsmouth from abroad, the artistic display of 
 mottoes and decorations in our streets, the procession, the collation at the tent, 
 and the evening levee, are the subjects which deserve note as a matter of history, 
 not only local, but also interesting for exhibiting to other towns and cities such 
 incidents as may tend to bring about a new mode of pleasantly and usefully 
 observing our great national anniversary. 
 
 A Boston writer says : " Portsmouth was in her queenly dress ; the ' SOBS' 
 were proud of their mother ; the mother was lavish of hospitality and love to 
 the 'sons.' Thanks to that son who suggested the beautiful thought that 
 brought us together. That thought will be developed and carried out by other 
 cities and villages, producing the pleasant fruits of social harmony, kind 
 remembrances, and brotherly love. 
 
 As I stepped from the cars the signs of 'friendship and welcome' were every 
 where visible ; these words and others like them were interwoven with flowers 
 and smiled in evergreens ; they were posted at the corner of every street, and 
 with a pen dipped in love were written in living characters on every heart*; 
 every one admired the simplicity of these mottoes ; no one doubted their sin 
 cerity. The whole city was animated with the warm glow of fraternal love, 
 which found its expression in numerous forms of tasteful elegance and ample 
 hospitality. 
 
 I joined the procession, which was certainly one of the most interesting I 
 ever saw. I could not but wonder at the ingenious contrivance which displayed 
 so great a variety of pleasing and useful objects. Mechanical and mercantile 
 arts, the forge, the workshop, the graceful ship saluting us with artillery, the 
 fine display of merchandize in the moving shop all passed before us, and told 
 05 that such a people could not be otherwise than prosperous and happy. The 
 Signs of thrift were visible all around us. Industry and happiness dwell to 
 gether, and the symbols of the one are the promise and pledge of the other. 
 
 We passed down Islington street, and thence through Market, under a suc 
 cession of evergreen arches, more beautiful than I ever saw before in Boston or 
 elsewhere. The names of the different States were painted among the foliage, 
 and the whole display produced a most lively and pleasing effect. We contin 
 ued our march ; it was no task to walk in such a procession ; sweeter music 
 never floated upon Italian air, and sweeter voices were never heard in tones of 
 greeting and love, and fairer forms were never seen to glide among the sons 
 and daughters of men. New Hampshire poured forth her beauty and her love ; 
 we drank of her crystal waters, presented by maidens of whom the nation 
 might justly be proud. We took it from their willing hands in the pauses of 
 ocr walk, and blessed them in our hearts. 
 
 Some of our number were truly fortunate ; showers of fragrance now and 
 then descended upon us, in boquets of summer flowers ; but being myself one 
 of the ' fathers,' I was not surprised that these showers took a direction a little 
 remote from my position, and consequently they fell into other hands ; but it 
 was all right, envy had no place among us, and each one was glad for his 
 neighbor. 
 
 At three o'clock we entered the tent. The arrangements were admirable ; 
 nearly two thousand people took their seats as quietly and in as perfect order 
 as can well be imagined ; contrivance was the order of the day ; everything 
 was dons right, because all possible contingencies were foreseen and provided 
 for. The tables were spread with a liberal hand, and the hospitality of the 
 city was equally honorable to herself and satisfactory to her guests." 
 
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 A SEEMON BY KEY. A. P. PEABODY, D. D. 
 
 Prepared in reference to the return of the Sons of Portsmouth from abroad, and deliv 
 ered at the Stone Church on Sunday morning, July 3, 1853. 
 
 INSEBTED AT THE SOLICITATION OF MANY OF THE HZARIRS. 
 
 MARK V. 19. 
 "Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee." 
 
 In the metropolis of our country, the reservoir that sends its health-giving 
 current to every house, and lends itself to unnumbered ministries of use, orna 
 ment and luxury, is the pride and joy of the city ; it is visited daily by hun 
 dreds of strangers, and bears engraved on enduring masonry, to be transmitted 
 to distant generations, the names of those who projected and conducted the 
 emerprize. But the river, without which the reservoir would be worthless, rises 
 one hardly knows where, pursues its unnoticed way through forest and meadow, 
 and where it is crossed or skirted by the highways of commerce the busy citi 
 zen hardly pauses to think, "Here flows the very life tide of the queenly city." 
 Thus is our recognition and our gratitude constantly prone to rest at the foun 
 tain of immediate supply instead of mounting to the source. To-morrow will 
 be a day much and long to be remembered among us. Our great political 
 festival, in itself so rich in themes for gratitude,is to be gladdened by the reunion 
 of the long parted, by the filling up of many diminished household circles, by the 
 return to the home of their youth of a multitude whose worth and whose honors 
 make us proud of the place that gave them birth. How busy will memory be 
 in the social and domestic intercourse of this season, recalling the images of 
 those who have gone to their rest, rehearsing school-boy narratives, disin 
 terring long forgotten experiences, raking up from the ashes of many years and 
 fanning into a genial flame the embers of youthful friendships, burnishing the 
 rusted links of chains of intimacy lengthened, yet by no means sundered ! And 
 to many hearts is not the light of this day of the Son of Man eclipsed by the 
 Jubilant joy which will take its multiform shape and find its many- voiced ut 
 terance with to-morrow's dawn ; and our festival of redeeming love, with its 
 tlender array of guests, its simple ritual and its low-voiced hymn, belittled and 
 dwarfed in comparison with the multitudinous shout and song, parade and 
 pageantry, gaiety and gladness in which thousands are to participate 1 Yet 
 here is the source ; to morrow you will but drink at the gathering of its waters. 
 Hence flow the streams that shall make glad the city. And would you trace 
 back the political freedom, safety and blessedness, the domestic joy, the long- 
 cterished friendships,th& undying loves, the dear remembrances of the departed, 
 the tenderness and faithfulness of the living, which will fill to-morrow's cup of 
 gladness, here, in the sanctuary, at the altar would go up your wannest vows, 
 your most fervent thanksgivings ; not one of you would remain a cold and list- 
 leas participator in the mere form of godliness ; not one of you would turn away 
 from the proffered emblems of your Savior's love. I may in the afternoon refer 
 to the connection of Christianity with our civil freedom. I would now speak of 
 its agency as regards the loves and friendships of our domestic and social estate. 
 I would remind those who have come home to their friends, and those to whom 
 they have come home, how great things the Lord has done for them. 
 
 Homa ! what a complex word ! How much does it embrace ! The endear 
 ments of infancy, the solace of age, the mutually trustful heart and helping 
 hand, kindness that has grown by perpetual drafts upon its resources, sympathy 
 t&e more entire the more constantly it has been claimed, the steps upborne and 
 guided over every rough and steep passage of the life-pilgrimage, shelter froin
 
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 the frowns of a bleak world and redoubled joy in every visiting of a benignant 
 Providence, 'blessings multiplied because divided, magnified because shared. 
 And all this t the godsend of Christianity. In Jesus alone are the families of 
 the earth blessed. The very word home which nas its synonym in every lan 
 guage of 'Christendom, has none, so far as I know., in any language that has not 
 frown up nader Christian auspices. For our text the evangelist could find 
 none but the comparatively frigid expression, "Go to thine house ;" for before 
 Christ men's bouses were not homes. The marriage covenant, the very basis 
 of all domestic repose, union and felicity, had no sacredness or permanence. 
 The wife could not call her house or family her own for a single day. Ths 
 caprice of a moment might throw the tender, faithful mother, childless and 
 widowed, upon the scorn of a pitiless world. She had then no inducement to 
 put on the unwithering grace* of mind and heart and character, to render her 
 self worthy of permanent esteem and confidence, or to discharge those numerous 
 and momentous duties and to diffuse those numberless and nameless influences, 
 the fruit of which can be reaped only after many days. She rather sought by 
 intrigue, by low cunning, or at best by superficial accomplishments and blan 
 dishments, to retain from day to day her doubtful sceptre, to minister to the 
 pleasure of the passing hour, and to pamper even the most sordid tastes and 
 diabolical passions, rather than imperil her supremacy by attempting to oppose 
 or reform them. Jesus first impressed the seal of inviolable sanctity upon thie 
 nuptial vow. The "wife, the mother worthy of the name owes her place and 
 office in the household to him and to his gospel. The vestal fire on tho 
 hearth-stones of Christendom, the glow of which warms the hearts of the long 
 absent, revives the hope that is ready lo perish, sends forth its beacon flame for 
 the prodigal in his far-off wanderings, was kindled by his breath, and its un 
 wearied priestess keeps her watch tis by his appointment. Abolish Christianity, 
 (France tried the experiment and still rues it bitterly,) abolish Christianity, 
 relax its restraints, or 'destroy its pervading even when unconscious influence, 
 and in ten years time you might look in vain for a home among all your 
 houses, and might look in vain among their inmates 'for what would merit the 
 name of a family. 
 
 Before Christ also the parental bond sat loosely on the father's side. Our 
 phrase "bring up" or Braise" as applied to children, is translated from a Latin 
 word, which has come do-wn to us as a memorial of heartless barbarity. Ths 
 new-born child was laid upon the ground, and if the father took it up or raised 
 it, it was destined to live ; if not, it was exposed to perish. Domestic govern 
 ment was marked in the nations of antiquity by incalculable caprice and un- 
 tempered severity. The power of life and death twas in the father's hands, ami 
 instances of its wanton and cruel exercise were not lacking among men illus 
 trious for goodness, as goodness was accounted by the standard of the times, 
 But Christ has left his consecration on infancy and childhood. His hallowing 
 hands, laid on the beads of those Jewish children, rest still on the lambs of J;he 
 .flock. His words of blessing make the little one an heir of immortality, a 
 nurseling for heaven. The tender, reverent associations which he connected 
 with opening life, pervade all Christendom, leaven domestic institutions and 
 habits, penetrate thousands of hearts where there is no distinct recognition of 
 Christian principle, and secure for the child a safe and dear place in the affec 
 tions and the ministries of every parent not utterly given over to a reprobate 
 mind. 
 
 St. Paul described the Gentile world as without natural affection \ and the 
 history of all unevangelized communities is a perpetual commentary on his words 
 for it is full of such crimes as set at defiance the bonds of nature and the lawi 
 of kindred. It is impossible for <UB to say how far the doctrine of immortality 
 Dters into domestic attachment, and helps to unite neighbors,friends and follow- 
 dlizens in mutual amity and good will. We are born into the atmosphere of 
 Christian faith. We wake with our "first conscious existence to a belief in im 
 mortality. Wo may be unaware of often -recurring to it, jet it is a tacit el*-
 
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 meat in all our thoughts of one another ; it is the matrix in which oar attach 
 ments are moulded ; it is the self-repeating formula, that finds expression in thfe 
 communings of families, the intercourse of friends, our wayside greetings, our 
 acts of courtesy, our deeds of brotherly kindness. It has tacitly presided in the 
 great family gathering, which throngs our city to-day, and will whelm us with 
 tts living tide to-morrow. It is not as dying men and women, but as immo- 
 tals, that we exchange the hearty grasp and the glad salutation, that we enlarge 
 the household table and pile the public feast. Did we look upon one another 
 as mere air-bubbles blown up for a little while on the ocean of a godless eterni 
 ty, one by one to burst and vanish forever, we should be afraid to love, reluctant 
 to enter into any closeness of sympathy, jealously solicitous of self-isolation, 
 anxious to avert every form and sentiment of intimacy, that we might shun the 
 pain of parting to meet no more. The parent, instead of looking upon his 
 child as his inalienable heart-property, would regard him as lent only for a 
 precarious term of months or years, and would measure the strength 
 of his attachment by the frailty of its tenure. Those now bound by the closest 
 friendship would be as mere casual acquaintance ; and as often as one disap 
 peared from the ranks of the living, there would be a fresh dissuasive from the 
 lorming of any relation, the sundering of which could give a momentary pain. 
 But now, into all our love and all our friendship there enters the feeling, that we 
 lose nothing by loving, that our friendship is not born to die, that the cherished 
 ones who go hence before us are treasures laid np for us in heaven, that these 
 mournful partings by the wayside are to have their offset in mansions above 
 where we meet to part no more. 
 
 There are aspects of our present gathering, which would be insnpportably sad 
 were it not for this relief. There return to us not a few after the absence of 
 many years ; and to them how is the face of society transfigured ! The fathers, 
 where are they ? How many of those who marked out our way and sat as 
 chief among us have left only the regretful memory of their excellence ! And 
 with them have gone matron and maid, those in the prime and pride of their 
 strength, youth in their budding promise, children in the first dew of their in 
 nocence. How few there are that return to unbroken households, none to larger 
 circles of coevals and intimates on which death has not cast its deep and re 
 peated shadow. Many of our guests will steal from the bnstle and tumult 
 the morning or the evening hour to visit the graves of the loved and honored 
 dead. But not in hopeless sadness, not with a disturbance of feeling that will 
 essentially impair the joy of meeting with those that survive and remain.. For 
 the resurrection angel will sit upon the grave stone, and of every one of the 
 faithful, pure, innocent dead, will say, "He is not here, he is risen, behold the 
 place where they laid him." The thought that so much that was noble, true, 
 excellent, worthy to be immortal, had utterly perished, would blight the glad 
 ness of an occasion like this, even for the least serious, who should have forced 
 upon their remembrance so many over whose mortal part the grave has irre- 
 rocably closed. But the tacit feeling that they have not wholly died, will enter 
 into every thought of which they form a part ; and in many home circles, and 
 quiet gatherings of long divided friends, and mutual. rehearsals of the separate, 
 ways in which God has led them, will be felt the overshadowing presence of the 
 unseen witnesses, the undying sympathy of the revered and beloved, the voic&- 
 lesss welcome of those whose hand and smile were wont to greet the homeward 
 pilgrim. 
 
 How numerous are the remembrances of chastened sadness, that must throng 
 in the hearts of those who after long absence are our fellow-worshippers this 
 day ! Not a few retain an ever fresh remembrance of him who so long filled, ft 
 the meekness of wisdom and the beauty of holiness-, the place where I now stand. 
 A still larger number recall with tender reverence him whom they loved as the 
 teacher and pastor of their childhood, who showed us how a Christian should 
 live, and in his own and God's best time, how hard it is to think in ours, how a 
 Christian can die. And with them our guests must mark the vacant places of
 
 many in every age and every walk of life, who have gone to swell the larger 
 congregation of the dead. But there is not a thought of them even in the mind 
 of toe least religious, from which Jesus has not taken the bitterness. There i* 
 not one, who would not be horror-stricken by the most cursory survey of death's 
 doings in the circle of his kindred and acquaintance, if he supposed that they 
 had all sunk into the bottomless pit of annihilation. You can contemplate 
 (hese changes in society with calmness, and can talk even cheerfully about th 
 departed, because there is all the while the latent feeling that there was a part 
 in every one of them that could not die, which the God of life, who breathed it 
 into them, has taken unto himself. 
 
 Suppose at the opening of this festival season an authentic voice from heaven, 
 proclaiming Christianity a delusion, Jesus a phantasm of crazy fanatics, immor 
 tality a baseless vision, death an eternal sleep and oblivion, think you that 
 to-morrow's rejoicing conld go on in the anticipated course 1 As I imagins 
 the appalling disclosure, I see numberless ancient wounds re-opened, long 
 buried griefs are revived in the freshness of their flow, all the healing ministry 
 of time and of a benignant Providence is reversed, the images of the 
 dead block up all the paths of the living, despair sits on every coun 
 tenance but of the infant and the idiot, and those who seemed wholly un 
 conscious of immortality awake too late to agonizing regret for the loss cf a 
 hope they never knew how to prize. And then, were it announced that the 
 revelation of eternal death was not the truth of God, but had only been uttered 
 to arouse men's minds to the priceless worth of the immortal life brought to 
 light in the gospel, how would joy kindle from face to face and leap from heart 
 to heart ! We should again bury pur dead in hope, and admit the healing hand 
 to the wounds of bereaved affection, and drop again the weary burden of 
 accumulated griefs ; the generation of the living, taught by orief experi 
 ence, would turn to Christ, and cling to, him, and cherish his dear image in their 
 heart of hearts ; and from tongue to tongue would pass the language of trust 
 mg faith, "Lord, to whom shall we go ? Thou hast the words of eternal life." 
 Itfy friends, I may have seemed in this discourse to be uttering the merest 
 truisms. But are they truths ? If so, their repetition is needed and timely. 
 There is in connection with this season much more than the mere wish to have a 
 splendid pageant and a memorable gala day. There is a feeling of obligation, 
 a conscientious feeling, which makes active in the preparations and hospitalities 
 of the seasoa very many for whom mere show or gaiety would have but little 
 attraction. They deem it right that the founders of the republic should receive 
 their meed of gratitude, on its birth day. They deem it fitting, a matter of 
 sacred duty, that nothing should be wanting to the welcome of those who revisit 
 their birthplace and renew their early home associations. Now how is it that 
 this same sense of obligation is so sparsely and faintly felt where it is supremely 
 due * Not one of you doubts that the gospel is the palladium of our liberty, 
 the mother and nurse of all pure patriotism and faithful public service ; that 
 Jesus of Nazareth is the author of our social privileges and blessings, the guai- 
 dian spirit of our homes, the virtual bond of our domestic unions ; in fine, that 
 there is not a blessing that we shaU recognize, a joy that we shall experience 
 on the morrow, which has not either been created by him, or through his agency 
 been rendered immeasurably more precious and availing. Yet here are spread 
 the elements of his commemorative festival, hallowed by his dying request and 
 participation, surrounded with associations that seem adapted to make their 
 irresistible appeal to every sensitive conscience and every impressible heart. 
 And can it be ? yes, so it is ; multitudes that talk and talk sincerely of duty and 
 obligation about to-morrow's festival, feel no compunction of conscience in turn 
 ing away from to-day's. They drink at the fountain ; they avert their regards, 
 withhold their gratitude from the source. Yet at the source not lies the buried, 
 but sits the ever living Christ. We do not so much commemorate him as com 
 mune with him. We receive his word, "Lo, I am with you alway." W 
 look to the direct inpouring of his sympathy and help, for the fulness that
 
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 shall replenish oar wasting urns of spiritual life. We feel that in rejecting th 
 fgvitation to this service, you are not slighting the memory of a dead 
 benefactor, hut spurning the society of a still and ever living friend. Are there 
 those here, who, were he on earth, would gladly join his company and sit at his 
 feet and hang upon his words 1 For you at least, for all who however frail and 
 erring can lift to him a thought of gratitude, is this table spread, and the cor 
 dial welcome ready. The spirit of God 1 ,- and the bride, the church of Christ's 
 espousals, says Come; and let him that heareth say Come ; and let him that * 
 athirst come ; and whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. 
 
 *I,ET ITS GO HOMEr" 
 
 " Let t go home !" was the happy thought 
 That sprang from the heart of one 
 Who remembered the scenes of bis boyish day* 
 With the love of an absent son, 
 
 " Let us go home !" and the words as they fell 
 From the lips of the truant boy, 
 Like the treasured strains of an olden gong 
 Wer echoed in tones of joy. 
 
 Loudly the notes of welcome rung 
 Throughout that olden home, 
 And the kindly words of fond recall 
 Were proffered to all who roam. 
 
 They come ! the wanderers return, 
 Old memories to renew ; 
 Joyous was this reunion sweet, 
 Of friends unchanged and true. 
 
 Heart beat to heart, and hand pressed hand , 
 While cheeringiy we trace 
 The impress of affection's seal 
 On each familiar face. 
 
 The sports, the lores of early hours, 
 Were once again talked e'er ; 
 And merrily the laugh went round, 
 As in the days of yore. 
 
 And yet amid the joyous mirth 
 The silent tear must fall, 
 As they, the absent and the dead, 
 Fond memory would recall. 
 
 For sad indeed and desolate 
 Is many a household now ; 
 And life's stern discipline we read 
 On many a saddened brow. 
 
 But blessings on the kindly ones ! 
 The loyed who yet remain ; 
 Within whose pleasant hearts and home* 
 A place we still retain. 
 
 And when life's gatherings arc o'er, 
 Kecalled with all whOTCam, 
 We will unite" no waadenr lost" 
 Within " our Father's" tome,
 
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 CXE* \7 > XJ9n?OjEU9, *se. 
 
 THE following list comprises not only the names of the natives who were present at the 
 gathering on the Fourih, but also of all others who are natives of Portsmouth, or who have 
 resided a score of years among us, of whom we have received any information. The list is 
 aa full as we are enabled in a limited time to make it, although many names have doubtless 
 been overlooked. 
 
 RESIDENTS IN MASSACHUSETTS. 
 
 Boston. 
 
 Left Portsm. ( Left Portsm . 
 
 John E. Abbott, merchant 1840 ! George W. Bazin, printer 1817 
 
 Wra. E. Abbott, fancy goods 1841 ! G. W. Burditt, upholster 
 
 J. L. Adams, silver plater 1832 j George Bartlett, clerk 1852 
 
 Sam'l Adams, book-binder 1830 | Frank L. Betton, clerk 
 
 G. Adwers 1852 | William H. Barnes 
 
 Daniel Akerman ! B. F. Butler, merchant 1834 
 
 Ira Ayers, barber 1827 I James Brasbridge 
 
 A. E. Bachelder, merchant j Floyd Briggs 
 
 Henry L. Bachelder, merchant j Charles T. Barry 
 
 Josiah G. Bachelder, jeweller 1830 | Henry M. Carr, printer 
 
 J. W. Bachelder, merchant 1836 ! W. Clifton Claggett 1846 
 
 Charles W. Batchelder, cooper 1830 | Charles W. Cheever, tailor 1848 
 
 Sylvester Barnard, painter 1825 j Joseph Cheever, physician 1847 
 
 John L. Badger, shipwright 1843 j William Clark, physician 1824 
 
 John L. Badger, clerk ! Philip W. Currier, clerk 1853 
 
 John Badger j Charles Caverly, collector 1816 
 
 John Ball, cooper | John E. W. Coleman, painter 1852 
 
 George Ball, clerk J Sam'l M. Colcord, druggist 
 
 T. M. Ball, merchant 1832 | Lewis J. Coleman, dry goods 
 
 E. W. Ball, bookeeper 1839 ! Wm. H. Cate, pump & block 1828 
 
 Charles W. Ball, book-keeper 1842 j Samuel Cate, cooper 1820 
 
 Alfred M. Beck, merchant 1848 j B. F. Cate, wood mouldings 1852 
 
 Alfred M. Beck, Jr. clerk 1848 ! Eben. Chadwick, merchant 1809 
 
 J. S. Beck, clerk i Howard M. Curtis 
 
 Chas. E. Blunt, It. U.S. eng'rs 1829 j Benj. Curtis, Jr. car maker 1850 
 
 Henry S. Bodge, clerk 1853 ] John R. Cushman, bookbinder 
 
 Geo. Bigelow ] J. H. Caldwell, counter-maker 
 
 James R. Bigelow 1844 ! Theodore Chase, merchant 1831 
 
 D. Jackson Bigelow, bookseller 1844 ! Lemuel E. Caswell, merchant 1841 
 
 L. A. Beal, clerk 1853 j J. H. C. Coffin, clerk 
 
 Henry R. Beal, clerk 1848 ) Frank Colburn, clerk 1845 
 
 J. W. Bourne, accountant 1833 | S. H. Drown 
 
 Joseph L. Bruce, painter 1842 i Thomas P. Drown, clerk 
 
 Oliver Briard, merchant j L. M. Drown, clerk 1844 
 
 Robert Briard, carpenter 1853 i William Davis, blacksmith 1848 
 
 Wm. Britcher, confectioner 1840 | Calvin Davis, Jr. carpenter 1853 
 
 John H. Bufford, lithographer 1829 | Jere. A. Dennett, clerk 1836 
 
 Timothy Barker ! George Dennett, custom-house 
 
 John Brown, mirror setter 1843 j Geo. Wm. Dennett, druggist 1850 
 
 John Brown, blacksmith 1850 | Charles Dennett 
 
 Charles H. Brown | G. Franklin Dennett 1848
 
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 W. S. Damrell, printer 
 Chas. L. Damrell, bookseller 
 John M. Dearborn, range&t'ur. 
 Charles E. Dixon 
 C. L. Duncan, clerk 
 Geo. C. Dow, civ. eng. 
 W. J. Drake, machinist 
 Matthias Da* ton 
 William Darton 
 J. Calvin Dame, machinist 
 Marshal M. Dame, machinist 
 Charles C. Dame, teacher 
 Woodbury Emery 
 Geo. F. Emery, U.S. gen. ap'r 
 Wm. T. Eustis, trea. Og. R.R. 
 James T. Fields, bookseller 
 George A. Fields, book-binder 
 Win. H. Fernald, clerk 
 Woodbury M. Fernald, literary 
 William M. Fernald, cooper 
 Joseph Fernald, machinist 
 
 A. W. Fernald, mast maker 
 
 B. L. Fernald, mast maker 
 Daniel Fernald, mast maker 
 N. Marshal Fernald, trader 
 Ichabod N. Fernald, printer 
 Jaines S. Fernald, clerk 
 Joshua W. Fernald, dry goods 
 Robert F. Foster, printer 
 
 I. W. Frye, editor . 
 Andrew J. Frye, fancy goods 
 Samuel S. Frye, patent leather 
 J. L. Flanders, book-keeper 
 Geo. W. Foss, student 
 J. Edward Fishley 
 William H. Fishley 
 William A. Fogg 
 N. A. Fogg, printer 
 Stephen Fitzgerald, carpenter 
 Luther Farwell, clerk 
 Charles Flanders, shipmaster 
 William H. Floyd 
 William Goddard 
 W. L. Goddard 
 Charles E. Griswold, clerk 
 Edwin A. Goodrich, printer 
 Sam'l H. Gookin, dry goods 
 J. M. Gookin, clerk 
 W. H. Gookin, mariner 
 Charles A. Gookin, clerk 
 Daniel J. Goss, merchant 
 Sam'l K. Gilman, post-office 
 J. Smith Gerrish, stove 
 
 j Wm. A. Greenough, jr. painter 1849 
 1849 ! Robert T. Greenough 1849 
 
 1796 ! Edmund R. Griffith, painter 1818 
 
 j C. W. C. Grant, tailor 1825 
 
 1849 | Bradford Gay, artist 1845 
 
 ] Thomas H. Hickey, merchant 1845 
 
 1851 ! James F. Hickey, clerk 1843 
 ! James D. Harris, clerk 1847 
 JTheo. S. Harris, apothecary 1848 
 
 1848 ! Wm. H. Harvey, clerk 1853 
 
 1849 ! Onslow G. Hill, clerk 
 
 1887 ! Samuel E. Hill, Central house 183t) 
 ! Walter E. Hill, merchant 1828 
 
 1828 j Wm. H. Hill, stationer 1831 
 
 1809 | James A. Hayes, merchant 183(5 
 1831 | Joseph Harrold, cooper 1824 
 
 1833 ! S. Rowland Hart, broker 1829 
 
 1852 | O. A. Hanscom, clerk 1851 
 1830 ! S. P. Hanscom, reporter 1837 
 1818 ] Dwight Hanscom, clerk 1351 
 1843 ! George H. Ham 
 
 | A. F. Ham, tailor 1853 
 
 j Orville A. Ham, printer 1848 
 
 ; Sam'l B. Hobart, sup. M. Ra'ay 
 1847 \ Geo. K. Hooper, furniture dlr. 1838 
 1847 ! Chas. H. Hersey. draughtsman 
 
 1853 j James Holbrook, blacksmith 1809 
 1847 ] Wm. B. Holbrook, carpenter 1838 
 1847 ! E. Howe, printer 
 
 1822 i William Hall, carpenter 1840 
 
 1852 ! Charles C. Hall 
 i Timothy Hall 
 
 1846 i Barnabas Hall, carpenter 1840 
 
 ! John Hall, leather dealer 1 825 
 ! A. J. Hall, counter maker 
 ; George W. Holm an, upholstery 
 | S. F. Hartshorn, Jr. " 1851 
 
 1850 ; George Huntress 
 ! Charles Hancock 
 ;' B. F. Henry 
 
 1849 | Nathaniel Jones, carpenter 1818 
 ! William Jones, painter 1853 
 
 ! Daniel F. Jones, printer 1839 
 
 1845 ! Leonard Jackson, printer 1828 
 
 1836 ] Chas. E. Jackson, Suffolk bank 1849 
 
 1853 ! John A. Johnson, book-keeper 
 
 1836 
 
 1842 
 
 1853 
 
 1851 
 
 1845 j Levi Kelley, cooper 
 
 1818 i J. Francis Kimball 
 
 1836 ' Sam'l Newhall Knigbt, clexk 
 
 Charles W. Kennard, clerk 
 John S. Kennard, clerk 
 i M. Parry Kennard, merchant 
 Wm. H. Kennard, merchant 
 
 1851 
 1844 
 1836 
 1840 
 1829 
 
 1839
 
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 Benjamin Kingsbury, butcher 
 Thomas Kittson 
 J. W. Knowlton 
 Nathan P. Laighton 
 Geo. H. Laighton, marble wkr. 
 Paul Laighton, shipmaster 
 James A. Laighton, clerk 
 C. Woodbury Langdon, clerk 
 Thos. R. Lambert, clergyman 
 Wm. H. Ladd, publisher Bee 
 John H. Lacoste, upholster 
 AnthonyLangfordjWatchmaker 
 John S. Locke, clerk 
 Langdon Locke, machinist 
 Andrew J. Locke 
 John P. Lord, custom-house 
 George H. Lane, clerk 
 
 B. F. Lowd, clerk 
 J. Quincy Lowd 
 
 Nath'l Melcher, post-office 
 
 Sylvester Melcher 
 
 W. N. Melcher, express 
 
 William Marden, printer 
 
 David Marden, shoemaker 
 
 Wm. H. Marden, painter 
 
 A. J. Mann 
 
 N. P. Mann, fish dealer 
 
 N. P. Mann, Jr. 
 
 Samuel W. Mudge, printer 
 
 Alfred Mudge, printer 
 
 Geo. W. Mudge 
 
 Andrew C. Mudge, merchant 
 
 Geo. B. Milton, merchant 
 
 George M. Mason, counsellor 
 
 Robert T. Mason 
 
 Charles Mason, clergyman 
 
 Samuel J Mason 
 
 Nicholas Mason, stove dealer 
 
 Wm. U. Moulton, printer 
 
 Benjamin P. Moulton, printer 
 
 C. H. Moulton, printer 
 W. Frank Mullin, clerk 
 
 J. Mulin and Brother, clerks 
 
 Thomas R. Martin, tin ware 
 
 Chas. F. Marline, book-keeper 
 
 A. M. Marline, book-keeper 
 
 A. B. Mendum, grocer 
 
 John S. Mendum 
 
 J. D. Mendam 
 
 John W. Moses, mason 
 
 T. M. Moses, provision dealer 
 
 Joseph C. Muchmore, rigger 
 
 William F. McClintock 
 
 1849 1 James S. Murble, carpenter 
 
 j Daniel S. Mugridge, clerk 1852 
 j C. S. Macreading, clergyman 1811 
 
 18381 Moses Miller, cooper 1818 
 
 1853 ! George Miller 
 
 1 848 j James Miller 1831 
 
 1853 i H. G. Manning 
 
 1852 ! James J. Morley 1 832 
 1836 ! A. P. Marston 
 
 1820 i Moses M. Marston 
 
 1845 ! J. S. March, Shoe & L. D. Bank 
 
 1827 ! Joseph W. Merrill, druggist 
 
 i W. T. Mathews, chaise manf. 
 
 1853 ! John S. Meserve, ship joiner 
 
 j Robert Morrison, supt. f. school 1841 
 1820 j John H. Noble, merchant 1845 
 ! James Nute, blacksmith 
 
 1843 ! Thomas S. Neal, mason 1828 
 i B. F. Nutting, artist 
 
 1828 I E. W. Norton, gas fitter 
 
 i Wm. H. H. Nelson, porter 1836 
 ; Joseph Norris, cabinet maker 1843 
 1818IW.R. Nutter 
 
 1824 I Wm. B. Oxford, boat-builder 1816 
 1853 | John W. Odiorne, spar maker 
 
 i Francis E. Parker, lawyer 1834 
 1818 i John D. Parker, merchant 1823 
 
 ': Ethan A. Paddock, clerk 1835 
 
 1842 j E. Pitman, tailor 1 826 
 
 1825 j Wm. Pitman, clerk 1818 
 1842 I David S. Philbrook, dry goods 
 1839 i Henry Philbrick, carpenter 1852 
 
 1844 j Daniel B. Paul, clerk 1852 
 | Edwin Paul, clerk 185S 
 ] James Paul 
 
 | Wm. F. Parrott, merchant 
 j J. M. Perry, cooper 1822 
 
 1844 ! C. W. Plaisted, machinist 1850 
 
 1842 I W. Plumer, shipmaster 
 j Jacob P. Plumer 
 
 1838 j Avery Plumer, Jr. 
 
 1850 i Joseph T. Pierce, shipwright 1846 
 
 1843 ! Benj. C. Piper, clerk 1840 
 ! William H. Piper, clerk 1840 
 
 1842 1 James R. Putnam, painter 1840 
 
 1849 | James Place 
 
 ! Edward L. Pike, printer 1832 
 
 ! E. A. Robinson, clerk 1840 
 
 ! S. Robinson, merchant 1832 
 
 i H. E. Robinson, clerk . 1835 
 
 ! Edwin H. Rice, clerk 
 
 18461 Gilinan Randall 
 
 1832 ! David S. Rand, machinist 1846
 
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 Moses Rand, Jr. hatter 1851 
 
 Jos. Remick, Jr. machinist 
 Albert Remick, clerk, 1851 
 
 T. M. Rundlett, custom-house 1839 
 James W. Ricker, printer 1847 
 
 Edmund B. Ricker, painter 1827 
 Christo'r E. Rymes, machinist 1841 
 Samuel Rea, custom-house 1847 
 J.Pierpont Rea, school 1847 
 
 Chas. Edwin Rea, school 1847 
 
 Horace Rea 1848 
 
 Samuel W. Rea 
 George H. Rea 
 James Reid, machinist 
 Daniel Rackliff 
 John E. Rolland 
 
 Dan'l B. Sawyer, h. carpenter 1852 
 W. E. Stan wood, paper hanger 1832 
 Joseph Sise, clerk 1848 
 
 Ephraim Shackford, painter 
 Charles Stone, painter 
 Baron Stowe, clergyman 1832 
 
 Augustus Spinney, car maker 1851 
 Thomas Spinney 
 Daniel R. Sheafe, merchant 
 John P. Somerby, car builder 
 Howard M. Somerby 1845 
 
 Daniel K. Sparhawk, com. mer. 1832 
 Benj. P. Shillaber, printer 1832 
 Francis R. Smith, dry goods 1840 
 Matthew Hale Smith, law 
 Cyrus Smith, Suffolk bank 1823 
 F. A. Shapley 
 
 Albert F. Sise, salesman 1848 
 
 Francis P. Sise, clerk 1852 
 
 James T. Simes, clerk 1852 
 
 Joseph S. Simes, clerk 1852 
 
 Joseph Simes, merchant 1827 
 
 Rufus Stuart, carpenter 1853 
 
 Edwin Shackford, p. forte m'r 1851 
 John W. Stavers, clerk 1850 
 
 Geo. W. Seaward, clerk 1816 
 
 Henry Seaward, printer 
 Joseph Scriggina 
 
 John Stokell 1842 
 
 J .Marshal Shepherd, hack 1850 
 James O. Trefethen, carpenter 1852 
 L'd Trefethen, cabinet maker 
 Daniel Taylor, merchant 1832 
 
 Wm. W. Tyler 
 
 Garland Turell, broker 1830 
 
 J. A. Thompson, printer & pub. 
 Charles Tappan, bookseller 1815 
 
 jWm. H. Tripp, cooper 1853 
 
 jWm. S. Tullock, book-keeper 1834 
 
 |Hugh H. Tuttle, printer 1829 
 
 1 W. P. Treadwell, mahog'ny dr. 
 
 ' Stephen Titcomb 
 
 [Stephen Tucker, sup. city land 1825 
 
 | James Vanghan 1806 
 
 ! Henry White 
 
 'Lorenzo White 
 
 | Thomas B, Wiggin, cooper 
 
 I S. Adams Wiggin, clerk 1853 
 
 ! Ira W. Wiggin, trader 184 J 
 
 j Joseph P. Wilson 1850 
 
 ! Joseph T. Wilson, machinist 1850 
 
 j Ben ning Wilson, cabinet maker 1848 
 
 ] Jacob Walden, shipping master 1838 
 
 ! Augustus Walden, varnisher 1848 
 
 ! Thomas Walden, calker 1844 
 
 I Isaac Waldron, clerk 
 
 1 Sam'l W. Waldron, merchant 1834 
 
 ! Sam'l W. Waldron, J r. 
 
 j Alfred Waldron 
 
 j James H. Weeks, merchant 1831 
 
 [ William A. Weeks 
 
 1 Geo. S. Walker, dry goods 1845 
 
 ! W. S. Walker, clerk 1852 
 
 I James Warren Wildes, clerk 
 
 | John Woods 
 
 I Edwin A. Wadleigh, clerk 
 
 ;' D. L. Webster, leather dealer 
 
 j John G.Webster, leather dealer 1825 
 
 j J. Wendell, Jr. dry goods 1843 
 
 j Samuel Whidden, printer 1821 
 
 ! John York, merchant 1843 
 
 ! Charles Young 
 
 Charlestown. 
 
 | Edmund M. Adamson, tailor 1844 
 j Franklin Ayers, carpenter 1851 
 ! Richard C. Bazin 1833 
 
 I Joshua W. Bazin 
 
 ! John Cheever, physician 1818 
 
 j Lyman O. Chase, ship carpen'r 1829 
 ! James A. Cook, spar maker 1836 
 ! Benj. Crocker, carpenter 1843 
 
 ! Theodore S. Davis 
 I Otis Falls 1844 
 
 j Wm. Fernald, cabinet maker 1844 
 j Levi Frye, clerk, 1835 
 
 ! Edwin R. Laighton, clerk 185f 
 
 ! Edward J. Norris, carpenter 1836 
 I Isaiah B. Norris, wheelwright 1834 
 | Moses Norris 
 ! Hiram Peaslee, carpenter 1852
 
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 Robert Pearson { Hopkinton. 
 
 James Remick, carpenter 1845 j Henry Waldron 
 
 J. H. Sanderson, blacksmith Lowell. 
 
 Daniel Seaward I Wear Colcord, mason 1817 
 
 J. Simons ! Charles H. Dennett 
 
 Timothy Upharn, merchant 1845 j Hirain Dennett, tailor 1836 
 
 Chelsea. \ Alfred Oilman, printer 1825 
 
 Wm. Jackson 1844 ! B. T. Hardy, merchant 1823 
 
 J. O. Mendum, letter carrier 1839 'Moses G. Howe, lawyer 1837 
 
 Cambridge. j Oliver March, bookseller 1837 
 
 Isaiah Bailey, mason j J. G. Peabody 
 
 Nathan '1 Cotton, com'n agent 1817 j B. H. Penhallow, printer 1838 
 
 Henry Hanson, carpenter 1850 [Joseph Raynes, jeweller 1831 
 
 Thomas S. Hayes, grocer ! L. K. Streeter, editor 1823 
 
 John S. Knowlton | Robert N. Tullock, silversmith 1832 
 
 Albert B. Lowd, carver 1852 ] James P. Walker, bookseller 1845 
 
 Thomas Moses, printer 1813 [ Geo. W. Wendell, dry goods 1825 
 
 Alfred A. Stacker, physician 1837 I William G. Wise, cash'rm'f co. 1836 
 
 Hamilton E. Towle, student 1850 ' Lawrence. 
 
 Andvver. j William S. Horton, machinist 1848 
 
 J. W. P. Carter j Nathaniel White 
 
 George E. Davis Lynn. 
 
 Charles M. Pickering jEIbridge G. Brooks 1833 
 
 Daniel Shannon j Jeremiah Dearborn, merchant 1828 
 
 Amesbury. j Charles Hatch, merchant 1850 
 
 Oliver Larkin ! D. W. Hatch, merchant 1850 
 
 J. W. Staples ! Washington Haven, dry goods 1351 
 
 Beverly. ! Henry Haven 
 
 Mark Dennett, jr. j Charles Haven 
 
 Chas. W. Reding, clergyman 1830 | Dan'l Moulton, clothing store 1828 
 
 Brookline. i James D. Moulton 
 
 Mark W. Sheafe / Asa E. Mullin 
 
 S. Danvers. \ Chas. C. Shackford, clergyman 1831 
 
 J. Wesley Hubbard | John C. Vennard, joiner 
 
 Dedham. \ J. S. Wentworth 
 
 John Holmes Maiden. 
 
 Oliver Holmes j E. L. Adams 
 
 Dorchester. \ Jeremiah Newman 
 
 Nath'l Bailey, carp. & calker 1843 j John G. Webster 
 
 Gideon Beck, auctioneer 1836 ! Marshfield. 
 
 Charles N. Bailey 1844 I Fletcher Webster. 
 
 A. W. Bell Melrose. 
 
 Nath'l Dennett, 3d 1844 j William Gushing, painter 
 
 G. W. Tuckerman, police ! Leonard Jackson, printer 1822 
 
 Euston. j Wm. F. Serrat, whitesmith 1880 
 
 Paul Laighton Middleton. 
 
 George E. R. Laighton | Israel W. Putnam, clergyman 1835 
 
 Fall River. Milton. 
 
 Charles F. Tucker, clerk 1826 j Israel P. Miller John H. Miller 
 
 Gloucester. Natick. 
 
 William W. Parrott, merchant 1809 j John M. Seaward, trader 1818 
 
 Haverhitt. \ George D. Wise 
 
 J. M. Goodrich ' New-Bedford, Abner J. Phipps.
 
 76 
 
 Newburyport. 
 
 Wm. H. Brewster, printer 1831 
 Charles W. Gurney 
 Joshua Marston 
 John E. Townsend 
 Eben. Wheelwright, merchant 1834 | 
 George E. Young 
 T. R. Hanson, trader 
 Newton. 
 
 G, H. deRoachmont, carpenter 1825 
 Leander Hansooni, carpenter 1852 
 Isaac Holmes 
 
 Quincy. 
 Charles W. Goddard 
 
 Roxbury. 
 
 Henry L. French, machinist 
 Gardner J. Greenleaf 
 Albert D. Jenness, pat. leather 1852 
 Levi M. Jenness, expressman 1848 
 Yeaton Jenness, expressman 
 I. P. Libbey, watch-maker 1850 
 Wm. Rice Richard Rice 
 
 C. F. Sleeper, architect 1830 
 
 Jos. B. Somerby, p. forte m'r 
 Frank Somerby 
 
 Randolph. 
 Matthew Clark 
 
 Samuel Clark 
 Edmund F. Clark 
 
 Reading. 
 
 Geo. Badger, cabinet manf'r 18i3 
 Wm. Badger, cabinet manfr 1884 
 
 Salem. 
 
 John Ball, city missionary 
 Joseph Ham George C. Hill 
 
 Springfield. 
 George W. Boyd 
 
 Somerville. 
 Peter Peduzzi 
 
 Charles Israel Putnam, M. D. 1835 
 Benjamin Randall 
 
 East Stoughton. 
 John E. W. Coleman 
 
 Taunton. 
 
 T. Simes Dennett 1841 
 
 D. H. B. Wheelwright, teacher 1834 
 
 Tiwksbury. 
 Leonard Huntress 1832 
 
 Watertown. 
 Fred'ck S. Wendell, carpenter 1832 
 
 Worcester . 
 
 John G. Adams, clergyman 1823 
 Thodore H. Bartlett, printer 
 Albert C. Tarlton 
 
 Augusta, Me. 
 Moses Noble, trader 
 Thomas C. Noble 
 Geo. H. Perkins 
 Wm. H. Marden, machinist 
 
 Bangor, Me. 
 Stephen Gilman, furniture 
 
 MAINE. 
 
 Damariscotta, Me. 
 181 2 ] Edward H. Sise 
 1814 ; Gardiner, Me. 
 
 1850 ! Parker Sheldon, ex-mayor 
 1850 j Goff's Corner, Me. 
 
 I Massena Goodrich, clergyman 
 1816! Kittery, Me. 
 
 1814 
 
 Samuel Laighton, book-keeper 1852 J George Sparhawk 
 Leonard March 1832 ! Limerick, Me. 
 
 J. G. Rand 
 
 Bath, Me. 
 Leonard Cotton 
 
 South-Berwick, Me. 
 John E. Bailey 
 William A. Cromwell 
 John P. Cromwell, mariner 
 Job Harris 
 
 William D. Jewett, merchant 1823 
 Moses Noble 
 
 Biddeford, Me. 
 George F. Bosher 
 George Swasey, machinist 
 
 Eliot, Me. 
 James Jones S. C. Martin 
 
 I Laommi B. Dame, physician 
 Newcastle, Me. 
 
 ] John P. Cooper 
 
 North WUtfield.Me. 
 
 j Bdw'd Warren Putnam, cler. 
 Portland, Me. 
 
 \ John J. Brown, broker 
 
 ! Charles H. French 
 
 ! Oliver Gerrish, watch-maker 
 
 I Henry Goddard, merchant 
 
 j Hanson M. Hart, wool dealer 
 
 | Henry B. Hart, wool dealer 
 
 ! ifames E. Haseltine 
 
 W. H. Knowlton 
 
 Richard Phillips, seaman 
 
 1849 
 
 1835 
 1820 
 
 1817 
 1820 
 1834 
 1832
 
 A. H. Rowe 
 
 And'w G. Senter, watch-maker 1839 
 
 Wm. Senter, watch-maker 1827 
 
 Saco, Me. 
 Jacob Marston, carpenter 1826 
 
 NEW-HAMPSHIRE. 
 
 j N. T. Moulton, jr. clothing 1851 
 j Ewd. S. Moulton, watch-maker 1788 
 | Oliver Moulton, overseer 
 | Edward Stiles, wheelwright 1833 
 
 Allenstoion, N. H. 
 George W. Ela, farmer 
 
 Harrington, N. H. 
 Benj. Thompson 
 
 Barnstead, N. H. 
 Andrew Marshall 
 
 Concord, N. H. 
 
 Thomas Chadbourne, physician 1810 
 Charles S. Gilman 
 M. V. B. Locke, printer 
 Samuel B. Larkin 
 Joseph C. Perkins, printer 
 Thomas P. Treadwell 
 
 Dover, N. T. 
 
 Joshua Banfield 1814 
 
 AugustineDuny on, watchmaker 1851 
 John T. Gibbs, editor 1825 
 
 Francis H. Hardy 1819 
 
 Leonard S. Rand 1828 
 
 Leonard R. Gray 
 John Scriggins 
 
 Durham, N. H. 
 Clement M.Davis. William Young 
 
 Epping, N. H. 
 Thomas Boardman, tailor 1852 
 
 Exeter, N. H. 
 
 John Lowe, Jr. 1830 
 
 Theodore Moses 1779 
 
 George Matb.es 
 J. W. Brooks 
 Mark Colbath 
 S. S. Fletcher 
 M. D. Whidden 
 Luke Julian 
 
 Oliver Smith, printer 1817 
 
 J. Hamilton Shapley, register 
 Daniel Melcher 
 Thomas Wiggin, 2d 
 
 Gilford, N. H. 
 Woodbury Melcher, trader 
 
 Great-Falls, N. H. 
 Elisha Andrews, Jr. grocer 1806 
 Oliver Chick, Mason 1813 
 
 Daniel Ham, hatter 1826 
 
 John Martin 
 Mark Noble, trea. of Sav. Bk. 1814 
 
 Theodore H. Rand, trader 1849 
 I Benj. Sherburne, machinist 1828 
 George W. Wendell 
 
 Greenland, N. H. 
 Joshua W. Peirce 
 John T. Parrott 
 George T. Ball 
 Henry Hart 
 Thomas W. Penhallow 
 Peter Bonning 
 
 Charles E. Salter, shipmaster J851 
 John Lowd 
 Henry Lowd 
 
 North Hampton, N. H. 
 \ George Grouard 
 
 Kingston, N.H. 
 j Leonard Shilling 
 | John Shilling 
 
 Manchester, N. H, 
 
 \ Lt. J. A. Underwood 1836 
 
 | Charles T. Durgin 
 | Joseph Potter 
 | Treat Potter 
 ! F. B. Johnson, hair work 1842 
 
 Milton Mills, N. H. 
 | Bray U. Simes, trader 1824 
 
 Netcington, N. H. 
 ! J. W. Pickering 
 ! Joshua W. Nutter 
 ! James Nutter, carpenter 1829 
 
 I William S. Nutter, carpenter 1846 
 | Charles W. Nutter, carpenter 1829 
 ! F. W. de Roachment 1818 
 
 ! George W. de Roachmont 1B3S 
 I Frank Pettigrew 
 
 Rochester, N. H. 
 \ Gilbert Homey, trader 
 
 S. Newmarket, N. B. 
 I John F. Kennard 
 I A. W. Walker 
 I William L. Walker 
 
 Ossipee, N. H. 
 ! William Hazlett 
 
 Pembroke, N. H. 
 | Benjamin B. Hazelton. 
 iSunapee, N.H. Joseph Tucker
 
 78 
 
 Rollinsford, N. H. I George Thompson, clergyman 
 
 Nathaniel Ham ! William S. Yeaton 
 Morris Ham Salem, N. H. 
 
 Slratham, N. H. j David Lowd 
 
 Lawrence Boardman Satmonfalls, N. H. 
 
 Dudley Chase ! Robert H. Holbrook 
 
 Benjamin Moulton ' William Morton, carpenter 
 
 NEW-YORK. 
 
 New-York City. \ Archibald A. Peterson 
 
 Julian Allen ! George F. Peterson 
 
 Thomas B. Aldrich j Edwin A. Peterson 
 
 Charles Abernethey | George W. Philbrook 
 
 Daniel D. Badger j William H. Peterson 
 
 James M. Badger I George W. Phipps 
 
 George J. Badger j Samuel W. Putnam 
 
 Samuel A. Badger j Charles Goddard Pickering 
 Henry S. Ball, clerk 1828 j John Pray 
 
 George Barker ! William B. Robinson 
 
 William P. Bennett I Capt. James Sullivan 
 
 George Burbank j Capt. James Salter 
 
 A. S. Baldwin | Alonzo Taft 
 
 John H. Bowles j William H. Thomas 
 Samuel L. Brewster 1850 I Charles Turell 
 
 Moses P. Brown ! William Turell 
 
 James W. Carr j Charles J. Turell 
 
 J. Newton Curtis j L. B. Walker 
 
 Elijah Curtis ! William A. Walker 
 
 Ralph C. Cutter j William Augustus Walker 
 Joseph F. Dow, fancy painter 1838 j John S. Walker 
 
 A. Jackson Decatnr | Charles Walker 
 
 James W. Emery ! William Walker 
 
 Charles L. Frost ! James L. Wise 
 
 William Fernald j William G. Wendell 
 
 Joshua J. Goodrich ; T. D. Wendell 
 
 Alfred A. Hall j Josiah F. Wilson 
 
 John W. Harrat ! Charles W. Wilson 
 
 Charles Haven ! Henry Young 
 
 J. Woodward Haven j Orlando Yeaton 
 J. Appleton Haven Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 Josiah Halev John Blunt, Jr. 
 
 Lieat. T. J.'Haines, U. S. A. j Nath'l March Blunt, U. S. Art'y 
 
 J. Harris Ham I Joseph Spinney 
 
 Henry S. Hill ! John Blunt, pres. Brooklyn bank 
 
 Charles H. Hill j Henry S. Hill, merchant 
 
 John M. Hill j Joseph Spinney, Jr. 
 Horace Hill Buffalo, N. Y. 
 
 Wesley W. Hill ! William Treat, physician 
 C. H. C. Hubbard, jeweller 1832 j Rochester, N. Y. 
 
 William B. Johnson ] Alfred M. Badger 
 John Jewett Monroe Works, N. Y. 
 
 Eliphalet Ladd ! Peter P. Parrott 
 William P. Mickell New-Hamburg, N. Y. 
 
 Jonathan Morrison j J. Fisher Sheaf e
 
 79 
 
 OTHER 
 
 Philadelphia, Pa. 
 Charles Wm. Coxe, merchant 
 Alfred Wm. L. Elwyn, esquire. 
 N. Parker Haven 1852 
 
 Marshall Hill 
 E. Ricker Hill 
 
 Manning Kennard, merchant 1832 
 Wm. M. Kennard, ship master 1852 
 Charles A. Lyman 
 Walter Langdon 
 
 George Rundlett 1850 
 
 Daniel M. Rollins 
 
 N. Parker Shortridge, merch't 1831 
 Benjamin T. Tredick 
 Mark R. Wendell 
 
 A. S. Wentworth, carpet ma'r 1844 
 Edmund Q. Waldron, clergyman 
 
 Meadville, Pa. 
 Nathaniel S. Folsom, clergyman 
 
 Pittsburg^ Pa. 
 
 James M. Haselton 1846 
 
 Baldwin Haselton 1850 
 
 Brady's Bend, Pa. 
 John H. Haines, Iron Co. 1853 
 
 Alonzo Haines, " 1851 
 
 John G. Little, " 1815 
 
 John G. Townsend " 1851 
 
 Warrington, Pa. 
 William F. Laskey 
 
 Pottsville, Pa. 
 Alexander Henderson, merchant 
 
 Pennsylvania. 
 Daniel Dearborn. Samuel Hazlett 
 
 Providence, R. I. 
 
 Charles Akerman, bookbinder 1830 
 Onsville E. Pray 
 George W. Flagg 
 
 Bristol, R. 1. 
 
 William H.S. Bayley 1814 
 
 John Gregory 
 
 New-London, Ct. 
 George O. Merriam 1846 
 
 Elizabethport, N. J. 
 Joseph C. Moses 
 
 Trenton, N. J. 
 Joseph H. Thompson 
 
 Cranberry, N. J. 
 William A. Haselton, teacher 1853 
 
 Mobile, Ala. 
 Joseph Ela, merchant 
 Daniel D. Wyatt, printer 1824 
 
 Richmond, Va. . 
 William Green 
 
 STATES. 
 
 Washington, D. C. 
 | Richard Ela, clerk dist. oourt 
 ! E. L. Childs 
 
 I Wentworth Larkin Childs, clerg. 
 | George M. Grouard 1816 
 
 j Silas H. Hill, lawyer 1831 
 
 ! Charles March 
 
 Baltimore, Md. 
 | William Walker 
 
 Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 \ Horatio Page 
 ! Samuel Warner 
 
 ! Mark H. Wentworth, imp.&job.l843 
 I George J. Wentworth, " 1843 
 ! John H. Hilton 
 
 Toledo, Ohio. 
 j John E. Shackford 
 
 Columbus, Ohio. 
 
 ] Charles B. Dennett, printer 1829 
 ! Paul Laighton, jr. 
 ! John H. Wheeler 
 
 Chicago, III. 
 | George H. Foster 
 
 i George E. Webber, dry goods 1850 
 ! Alfred A. Webster, dry goods I860 
 
 Mount Palatine, III. 
 I Nathan B. Folsom 
 I Boardman Folsom 
 
 Lancaster , III. 
 ! Matthew S. Marsh 
 
 Peoria, 21L 
 i Henry I. Rugg 
 
 Granville, III. 
 \ William D. Hill 
 ! St. Louis, Mo. 
 
 i Edmund Henderson 
 ! James Holmes 
 
 j Lt. Charles E. Blunt, U. S. EngV 
 ! Samuel Treat, judge 
 
 Louisville, Ky. 
 
 ! Eusebius Hutchings, banker 1833 
 j L. V. Badger 
 j A. C. Badger, banker 1844 
 
 Indiana. 
 \ R. L. Harris, civil engineer 1849 
 
 Cannelton, la. 
 \ Charles Henderson, manfr 
 ] Alonzo Wise 
 
 Wisconsin. 
 
 j Joshua W. Fernald 
 j David Holmes 
 
 Whitewater, Wis. 
 William D. Little, jr.
 
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 New-Orleans, La. California. 
 
 Thomas A. Adams 1843 j Benj. J. Akerman 
 
 Charles E. Blunt 1846 ; N. A. Haven Ball, merchant 1841 
 William B. Bowles ! Lawrence Bufford, painter 
 
 John Durgin ! Alonzo F. Brown 1850 
 
 William Henderson 1826 ! Charles W. Clark 1849 
 
 Samuel Hill 1838 John S. Cutts 
 
 Peter Marcy 1828 j C. Thomas Clapham 1849 
 
 Samuel Marcy 1832 i Thomas W. Drown 1849 
 
 John L. Sheafe, lawyer i William H. Dunyon 
 
 Elbridge G. Treat 1838 | James M. Ela, merchant 
 Frederick W. Tilton [ Ezekiel Fitzgerald, merchant 1849 
 
 Howard Henderson i Albert Fernald 
 
 John Gaines j Benj. F. Foster, printer 1836 
 
 Charles Gaines j Robert B. Gray, goldsmith 
 
 Illinois. Augustus Hubbard, | Phineas J. Goodrich 
 Alonzo Hubbard, Robert Harrold ! John Goodrich, Jr. 
 Mississippi. Oliver B. Hill j William A. Goodrich 
 
 Woodville, Miss. \ Jeremiah D. Goodrich, jr. 
 
 Isaac H. Stanwood 1824 ! Thomas A. Harris, shipmaster 
 
 Dubuque, Iowa. I Abel Harris, shipmaster 
 
 Charles W. Cutter j John W. Huntress 1849 
 
 Laporte, la. J Edward A. Ham, printer 
 
 James M. C. Piper, trader 1840 | T. Leander Ham, printer 
 
 Clarksville, Geo. \ Charles Moses, goldsmith 
 
 Ataos T. Akerman, lawyer ! William Moses, goldsmith 
 
 Charleston, S. C- \ William P. Moulton, tin ware 
 
 Moses H. Stacey ! Horace Morrison, merchant 
 
 Newnansvill-e, E. Florida. I Augustus Morrison 
 George L. Brown ! Sam'l Osgood Putnam, raerc't 1835 
 
 Jacksonville, Fa. \ Theodore F. Rowe 
 
 William F. Dupray. | Edwin A. Rowe 
 
 Fort Smith, Ark. \ Charles E. Rand 
 
 William Jackson 1838 ! James Saunders 
 
 Joseph Jackson 1853 I James Henry Thompson, carpen'r 
 
 Beloit, Wis. \ George T. Upharn 
 
 Oliver P. Rice, engineer j Daniel G. Waldron 
 
 Galveston, Texas- ' J. Frank Winkley, trader 1851 
 
 Alexander H.Ladd 1851 1 Daniel E. Whidden, printer 1849 
 
 Honolulu, S. I. Portland, Oregon. 
 
 David P. Penballow, shipmaster \ George E. Gray, mariner 
 T. Coffin Harris J Charles B. Pillow, watch-maker 
 
 FauUdand Islands. Astoria, Oregon. 
 
 Mark Laighton John Norton 'Jacob S. Robioson 
 
 Whole 'number 880. More than half were present. 
 
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 page, last line, instead of Boston Brass read Bond's Cornet. 47th page, 8th line from top, toe 
 gloom read g loam. 63d page, 1st line, for William M. Fernald read Woodbury M. Fernald ; 
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